News Team

Oct 5, 2008 | 3 comments

On the wall above his desk, Marty Levin has a framed display of countless press credentials collected over the years. They were assembled as a gift and represent his experience of over 30 years and his...

Oct 5, 2008 | 1 comment

"When all is said and done... when you take away the special effects and all the bells and whistles, we are storytellers, plain and simple. Telling stories that have substance, that are powerful and...

Oct 5, 2008 | 1 comment

Jason Austell joined the crew of NBC 7/39 News in the Morning in October 2007. This, after 15 years of reporting traffic and breaking news from the skies above San Diego County. Jason is able to use his...

Oct 5, 2008

After graduating with honors from the School of Journalism at the University of Colorado in 2001, Greg Bledsoe headed for warmer weather and a writing job at NBC 7/39. After honing his skills writing and...

Oct 5, 2008

"Life is not a dress rehearsal." You may remember NBC 7/39's weather anchor Pat Brown from her days on KyXy radio or "PM Magazine" at KFMB-TV. Over the "PM" years, Pat traveled...

Oct 6, 2008 | 2 comments

It's hard to imagine any other reporter who spends more time talking and writing about dollars and cents issues than George Chamberlin. Of course, his duties as Money Advisor for NBC 7/39 allow people...

Oct 10, 2008

Chris Chan has covered Business and General Assignment stories for KNSD since 2007.  He was in Rancho Bernardo when the Witch Fire devastated the area in October 2007.  He is also takes pride...

Oct 5, 2008

"There's been some deaths already," the disheveled crack head babbled into my outstretched microphone. "A coupla cats just got killed up the street!"   I couldn't make out...

Oct 5, 2008 | 1 comment

Catherine Garcia joined NBC 7/39 as the station's weekend 6 p.m. and 11 p.m. co-anchor on Sept. 1, 2003. Currently she is anchor for the First News at 4 and the News at 4:30 p.m Catherine comes to San...

Oct 15, 2008

Pamela Davis came to NBC 7/39 in February 2008. She returned to San Diego from KDVR in Denver, Colorado where she was the anchor for Good Day Colorado. San Diego viewers may remember her as a reporter...

Oct 5, 2008

Greg Dawson became Vice President of News of NBC 7/39 in July of 2002 after 13 years at the station. Greg came to San Diego as a producer in September of 1989. Over the years, he produced nearly every...

Oct 5, 2008

Monica Dean is an Emmy award winning anchor/reporter for NBC 7/39. She co-anchors NBC 7/39 News This Weekend at 11PM with Artie Ojeda and reports weekdays for NBC 7/39 News at 11PM. Monica joined the...

Oct 5, 2008

"San Diego is my home, and I feel privileged to be able to report on the issues that affect my family and my neighbors." That's what Rory Devine says about her job as a reporter at NBC 7/39...

Oct 6, 2008

Kristine Frazao is happy to be back in San Diego, where she was born and raised.  Kristine got her undergraduate degree from Boston College where she double-majored in history and communications. ...

Oct 5, 2008 | 4 comments

Being a consumer reporter isn't much different than standing around an old time cracker barrel shooting the bull." That's what Bob Hansen, better known as Consumer Bob, has to say about his style...

Oct 5, 2008

Lorrie Jordan joined NBC 7/39 as the station's Weekend AM Weathercaster in January 2004. Lorrie comes to San Diego from Charleston, S.C., where she worked as the weekend weather anchor and general assignment...

Oct 10, 2008

Jodi’s love of nature has taken her around the world – through the ancient monkey temples of Bali, Indonesia, up the side of a smoking volcano, and even snorkeling in what is known as the most...

Oct 14, 2008 | 4 comments

I thought my career was over before it even started." Ken Kramer was still a kid, but he had secretly built a working radio station in his bedroom that broadcast for miles from his home. "My...

Oct 5, 2008

"Go with the flow." That's what it takes to cover the news. One minute you could be covering a house fire, the next minute you could be sent on a jet plane to the other coast to report on illegal...

Oct 5, 2008 | 1 comment

How many San Diegans do you know are here because of a trade? In May 1978, the Chargers sent two draft picks to the Detroit Lions for Linebacker Jim Laslavic. He's been here ever since. After a 10-year...

Oct 5, 2008

You might say Steven’s television career got an early start. He was 3 ½ years old when he first appeared in a “Mervyns” commercial. “The TV Bug just stuck around I guess”....

Oct 5, 2008

Always looking for the next big story, anchor, reporter and producer Tania Luviano, is in a lot of places at the same time. From delivering the top stories every weekday afternoon to reporting breaking...

Oct 5, 2008 | 3 comments

Born, raised and educated in San Diego, Artie Ojeda returned to his hometown in 1996 to be a reporter at NBC 7/39.

Oct 5, 2008

Mari Payton is thrilled to return to her home in Southern California. She loves the outdoors and the sunny San Diego weather, especially after covering tornados and flooding and Hurricane Katrina for WLBT....