Harold Greene Biography
Harold Greene is a news anchor for KCAL 9 News and CBS 2 News in Los Angeles. Greene worked in television news for many years before joining the CBS duopoly, especially in Southern California.
Harold Greene Age
Harold was born on December 1, 1943, in the United States of America. He is 79 years old as of December 2022.
Harold Greene Education
H attended and graduated from the Columbia School of Journalism.
Harold Greene Career
Greene began his career in 1970 as a reporter and producer for Los Angeles’ KABC-TV. Greene was then hired to help begin the news operations for KCST-TV (now KNSD), which was the new ABC affiliate for San Diego at the time. After a year as anchor/news director at Channel 39, he moved to competitor station, then-NBC affiliate KGTV, where he co-anchored The News with Jack White and covered the Chicano Movement, helping the station briefly overcome rival KFMB in the ratings. Years later, Jack White worked as a consultant on the film Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy, which resulted in the producers discovering some old photos of Greene in White’s scrapbooks, and the Ron Burgundy look was born.
Greene left San Diego in 1977 for a brief tenure with CBS affiliate KPIX-TV in San Francisco, where he was teamed with co-anchor Dave McElhatton, a popular local radio personality in his first year with the station. Greene returned to Los Angeles after a year in the Bay Area to co-anchor the 5:00 p.m. Eyewitness News with the famous Jerry Dunphy. However, he was fired after two years of co-anchoring the 5:00pm newscast with Dunphy; KABC management then brought in Ann Martin and special correspondent Paul Moyer (previously of KNBC-TV at the time) to anchor the newscast. Greene is honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6906 Hollywood Boulevard.
Greene would return to anchoring Eyewitness News weeknight editions, beginning with the 4 and 6 p.m. newscasts, where he replaced Dunphy (who had moved to KHJ-TV, now KCAL-TV) in 1989, and progressing to the 5 and 11 p.m. newscasts, when he replaced Moyer (who returned to KNBC) in 1992. Martin (1992-1994), Lisa McRee (1994-1997, who later replaced Joan Lunden on Good Morning America), and Laura Diaz (1997-2000) were his weeknight co-anchors. Greene left KABC in August 2000 and later joined KCBS in January 2001, reuniting him with former Eyewitness News colleagues Ann Martin (who joined KCBS in 1994) and veteran sportscaster Jim Hill (who returned to his old station in 1992).
Greene returned to San Diego and his previous nighttime anchor position at KGTV (which had transitioned from NBC to ABC in 1977), but KABC welcomed him back as a reporter and weekend anchor alongside Joanne Ishimine in 1982. His third stint at KABC was more successful, with him serving as host/celebrity interviewer for the station’s locally produced programs such as Hollywood Close-Up and A.M. Los Angeles. Greene had been co-anchoring KCAL’s 4 pm and KCBS’s 6 pm newscasts with Martin (who was also laid off) when KCBS/KCAL fired him and several other employees on April 1, 2008, due to budget cuts. According to a station source, both anchors have decided to retire, but neither Greene nor Martin have made any official comments.
Harold Greene’s Net Worth
Greene has an estimated net worth of 3 million dollars.
