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PBS SoCal (Koce/Kcet) led the 2025 L.A. Area Emmy awards with eight total, but the other big winner of the night was Telemundo’s Kvea-tv, which took home all three station awards for best newscasts — for daily morning (4 a.m. to 11 a.m.), daily daytime (11 a.m. to 7 p.m.) and daily evening (7 p.m. to 12 a.m.).

The 2025 Los Angeles Area Emmy Awards were held Saturday at the Skirball Cultural Center in Los Angeles, hosted by Spectrum News 1 host/anchor Kelvin Washington.

Jim Hill was recognized with 2025 Los Angeles Area Emmy Governors Award, for his five-decades-long career in broadcasting and 45 years as a sportscaster at Kcbs/Kcal in Los Angeles. The award was presented by former LA Laker star James Worthy.

Bob Bain and Bob Bain Productions produced this year’s event, featuring categories including Live and Breaking News Coverage, Crime and Social Issues, Culture and History,...

Exclusive: Netflix has optioned The Borrowed Life of Frederick Fife, with Micah Fitzerman-Blue and Noah Harpster set to adapt the debut novel by Anna Johnston. The scribes brought the book to Netflix and will produce through their Blue Harp banner.

Frederick Fife was born with an extra helping of kindness in his heart. If he borrowed your car, he’d return it washed with a full tank of gas. The problem is there’s nobody left in Fred’s life to borrow from. At 82, he’s desperately lonely, broke, and on the brink of homelessness. But Fred’s luck changes when, in a bizarre case of mistaken identity, he takes the place of grumpy Bernard Greer at the local nursing home.

William Morrow

The writers have won the Peabody Award, the Pen Award and the Humanitas Prize for their work as screenwriters. They’ve also been nominated for the Emmy,...

We lost some entertainment giants in 2024.

Among the big-screen legends who died during the past 12 months were Donald Sutherland, James Earl Jones, Maggie Smith, Carl Weathers, Shelley Duvall, Dabney Coleman, Teri Garr, Louis Gossett Jr., Anouk Aimée, Marisa Paredes and Gena Rowlands.

Related: Saying Goodbye: A Video Tribute To The Hollywood And Media Figures We’ve Lost In 2024

The TV world mourns the likes of Bob Newhart, John Amos, Phil Donahue, Linda Lavin, David Soul, Dr. Ruth Westheimer, Martin Mull, Shannen Doherty, Michael Cole, Richard Lewis, Richard Simmons, James B. Sikking, Peter Marshall and Joe Flaherty.

Filmmakers and producers who left us include Norman Jewison, Roger Corman, Al Ruddy, Jon Landau, Lynda Obst, Jim Abrahams, Charles Shyer, Irv Wilson and Paolo Taviani.

The industry also paid tribute to such top executives as Charles Dolan, Paula Weinstein, Jamie Kellner, Richard Parsons, Gerald Levin and Paul Fox.

Broadway’s lights were a...

A P.F. Changs fortune cookie predicted Deyra Barrera’s Friday: “Tomorrow will be a very important day for you.”

That morning, the 49-year-old mariachi singer from Tucson, Arizona, woke up to a text from a friend, telling her that Kendrick Lamar had surprise-released Gnx — and Barrera’s vocals opened the album. Barrera was shocked.

“My skin gets goosebumps because all of this happened so quickly for me,” she tells Rolling Stone, minutes after Lamar dropped the project.

“I felt your presence here last night,” she sings in the first few seconds of the album,...

Fernando Valenzuela, the iconic southpaw pitcher who helped Los Angeles Dodgers win the 1981 World Series, died last month of septic shock. Valenzuela died on Oct. 22 at age 63, although no cause of death was provided at the time.

The player’s death certificate from the Los Angeles County Medical Examiner, obtained by TMZ Sports and confirmed by The Associated Press, lists septic shock as the immediate cause. The life-threatening condition occurs when organs malfunction and typically leads to dangerously low blood pressure.

On the death certificate, the medical examiner listed decompensated...

Fernando Valenzuela’s cause of death has been determined after the Dodgers legend died last month at 63.

According to his death certificate, the broadcaster and former pitcher died due to decompensated alcoholic cirrhosis and nonalcoholic steatohepatitis cirrhosis.

The document obtained by TMZ also notes that another probable contributor to Valenzuela’s death was that he suffered from Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, a rare brain disorder. Symptoms of the disease can include severe mental deterioration and dementia as well as involuntary muscle jerks.

Following Valenzuela’s death, MLB Commissioner Robert D. Manfred, Jr., issued a statement honoring the baseball legend.

“Fernando Valenzuela was one of the most impactful players of his generation. With his distinctive pitching style, the Dodger left-hander’s rookie season generated so much excitement in the U.S. and his native Mexico that it became commonly referred to as ‘Fernandomania,'” read the statement. “His 1981 season ranks among the most...

Fernando Valenzuela, the iconic southpaw pitcher who swooped the National League Cy Young Award and Rookie of the Year as the Los Angeles Dodgers won the 1981 world championship, has died at the age of 63.

The Dodgers confirmed his death on Tuesday night. No cause of death was given.

His legacy and impact across generations of baseball fans led to the team breaking from its tradition of only retiring jersey numbers for players in the Baseball Hall of Fame. Although his number had never been worn by another player since his...

Fernando Valenzuela, the left-handed Dodgers pitcher who took Los Angeles by storm in the 1980s, has died at 63. The club announced the news Tuesday on social media.

Valenzuela, who was born and raised in the rural town of Etchohuaquila in the Mexican state of Sonora, was called up from the minors at the very end of the Dodgers’ 1980 season and impressed right out of the gate.

Fernandomanía por siempre. Fernandomania forever. pic.twitter.com/zXhOF8cRCP

— Los Angeles Dodgers (@Dodgers) October 23, 2024

After baseball, Valenzuela found a second career as a broadcaster, calling Dodgers games for 22 years before suddenly, earlier this month, announcing he would not be working the postseason so he could “focus on his health.”

Late last year, the Dodgers finally retired Valenzuela‘s No. 34 jersey, the culminating event after the city council declared “Fernando Valenzuela Day.” Indeed, Valenzuela’s name is on a very short list of Los Angeles’ most revered sports figures,...

Baseball legend Fernando Valenzuela, known as El Toro, has sadly passed away at the age of 63.

The news was announced on Tuesday night (October 22) by the Los Angeles Dodgers, the team he spent the longest tenure on during his MLB career.

“We are deeply saddened to hear of the passing of former Dodgers great Fernando Valenzuela,” the MLB said in a statement.

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A cause of death has not been revealed yet.

The Mexican baseball pitcher competed in 17 baseball seasons from 1980 to 1991 and from 1993 to 1997. He started his career with the Dodgers and played for the team through 1990. He went on to play for the California Angels, the Baltimore Orioles, the Philadelphia Phillies, the San Diego Padres, and finally the St. Louis Cardinals.

News of Fernando‘s passing comes just hours after it was announced that a new mural celebrating his career would be placed...

One of the greatest pitchers in Los Angeles Dodgers history was honored Friday night at Dodger Stadium before the game.

The Dodgers retired Fernando Valenzuela’s No. 34 jersey, the culminating event in the city council declaration of “Fernando Valenzuela Day.”

In a pregame moment, the 62-year-old Valenzuela admitted, “It’s very emotional” to a crowded room of English and Spanish-language media hours before the ceremony. “I never expected it.”

A drone show honoring Valenzuela is expected after the game against the Colorado Rockies. On Saturday, the team is giving away his bobblehead, and on Sunday, the giveaway is a replica of Valenzuela’s 1981 World Series ring.

Valenzuela broke in with the Dodgers in a huge way in 1981. Besides winning the World Series, he won Rookie of the Year and the Cy Young Award, the first player to do so in the same year.

He was named the Opening Day starter...

Welcome to the 212th episode of TV’s Top 5, The Hollywood Reporter’s TV podcast.

Every week, hosts Lesley Goldberg (West Coast TV editor) and Daniel Fienberg (chief TV critic) break down the latest TV news with context from the business and critical sides, welcome showrunners, executives and other guests, and provide a critical guide of what to watch (or skip, as the case may be).

Here’s how the episode plays out:

1. Headlines

911 and 911: Lone Star, FBoy Island, Dancing With the Stars, Sweet Tooth, Monster, The Morning Show, Sydney (and Kyle) Chandler, The Diplomat and Fernando Valenzuela lead the week’s non-strike TV headlines.

2. WGA on Strike

It’s official, the Writers Guild is officially on strike for the first time in 15 years. The last strike, in 2007-08, lasted 100 days and focused on “The Internet” when streaming was in its infancy and Netflix was still a DVD by mail company.

Fernandomania is coming back.

Universal Content Productions is teaming up with the beloved Dodgers pitcher-turned-broadcaster for a scripted limited series based on his life and career. A network/platform is not yet attached.

The project, which is in development, hails from writers Micah Fitzerman-Blue and Noah Harpster, the writing duo whose credits include the upcoming Netflix limited series Painkiller and who are adapting Disney’s Bambi remake. Major League Baseball’s Nick Trotta (The Captain, 30 for 30) also attached to exec produce via MLB Studios.

Here’s how UCP describes the limited series: “The first time Fernando Valenzuela has ever told his story, this series will follow the legendary Dodgers pitcher from his time playing on dirt fields in rural Mexico to winning the World Series in 1981 — and changing baseball forever.”

Alfonso Gomez-Rejon (Me and Earl and the Dying Girl, The Current War) is attached to exec produce and will direct...

At the start of 1955, the Dodgers were based in Brooklyn, and Jaime Jarrín was a reporter in his native Ecuador, covering the National Congress.

Four years later, the Dodgers had moved to Los Angeles, and Jarrín was broadcasting their games on the radio.

Jarrín arrived in Los Angeles on a permanent resident visa that June and worked in a factory until a part-time job opened up at the city’s only Spanish radio station, Kwkw. He made fast progress, and by the time the Dodgers moved to Los Angeles in 1958, Jarrín was Kwkw’s news and sports director.

They didn’t play much baseball in Quito, but Jarrín had become a fan of the sport in California, going to see the minor league Hollywood Stars and Los Angeles Angels. Still, when Kwkw’s owner, William Beaton, announced that the L.A.-bound Dodgers had made a deal to broadcast their games in Spanish,...

By now, Jaime Jarrín’s career milestones are as well-known to baseball fans as his voice.

The Los Angeles Dodgers’ legendary Spanish-language broadcaster is set to retire next month after an astounding 64 seasons with the team. He’s been a prominent voice of the Dodgers for virtually all of the Brooklyn-born franchise’s time in Los Angeles. After the legendary Vin Scully retired in 2016, Jarrín became the longest-tenured announcer in baseball.

“He’s outlasted owners, players — everyone,” says Jessica Mendoza, who is part of the Dodgers’ home announcing team on Charter’s Sports Net L.A. and covers baseball for ESPN. “No one can speak to what it means to be part of the Dodger franchise better than him.”

Jarrín, a native of Ecuador, moved to Los Angeles in 1955 at the age of 19 and wound up working as news and sports director of the city’s Spanish-language radio station Kwkw.

Last week, the Los Angeles Dodgers Foundation (Ladf) partnered with RWQuarantunes to raise funds to provide 3.3 Million meals to the most vulnerable Angelenos impacted by Covid-19.

The star-studded virtual event, which streamed live from Dodger Stadium to more than 2,000 viewers, raised over $1.1 Million to support the Los Angeles Regional Food Bank and the foundation’s efforts to feed the hungry in Los Angeles.

The celebration featured appearances by the 2020 World Champion Los Angeles Dodgers, Dodger legends, and current players including Trevor Bauer, Mookie Betts, Corey Seager, Joe Kelly, Max Muncy, David Price, Will Smith, Steve Garvey, Fernando Valenzuela, Andre Ethier, and many more current and former teammates.

The night was packed with memorable moments, appearances and performances from musicians and actors including Ted Danson & Mary Steenburgen, Bob Costas, DJ Cassidy, Dan + Shay, Joe Esposito, Lisa Lisa, Swv, Shanice, En Vogue, Boys II Men, Bobby Brown, TLC, Keith Sweat, New Edition,...

Don Sutton, a Hall of Fame pitcher who was a stalwart of the Los Angeles Dodgers’ rotation spanning an era from Sandy Koufax to Fernando Valenzuela, died Tuesday. He was 75.

The Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, New York, said Sutton died at his home in Rancho Mirage, California, after a long struggle with cancer. The Atlanta Braves, for whom Sutton was a long-time broadcaster, said he died in his sleep.

A four-time All-Star, Sutton had a career record of 324-256 and an Era of 3.26 while pitching for the Dodgers, Houston Astros, Milwaukee Brewers, Oakland Athletics, California ...

Don Sutton, a Hall of Fame pitcher who was a stalwart of the Los Angeles Dodgers’ rotation spanning an era from Sandy Koufax to Fernando Valenzuela, died Tuesday. He was 75.

The Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, New York, said Sutton died at his home in Rancho Mirage, California, after a long struggle with cancer. The Atlanta Braves, for whom Sutton was a long-time broadcaster, said he died in his sleep.

A four-time All-Star, Sutton had a career record of 324-256 and an Era of 3.26 while pitching for the Dodgers, Houston Astros, Milwaukee Brewers, Oakland Athletics, California ...

Tommy Lasorda, two-time World Series champion manager for the Los Angeles Dodgers, died Thursday of a sudden cardiopulmonary arrest. He was 93.

Lasorda’s death was announced Friday morning by the Dodgers. It comes less than three months after the Dodgers won their first World Series since the manager led the team to a title in 1988.

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— Los Angeles Dodgers (@Dodgers) January 8, 2021

MLB commissioner Rob Manfred said in a statement: “Tommy Lasorda was one of the finest managers our game has ever known. He loved life as a Dodger. His career began as a pitcher in 1949 but he is, of course, best known as the manager of two World Series champions and four pennant-winning clubs. His passion, success, charisma and sense of humor turned him into an international celebrity, a stature that he used to grow our sport. Tommy welcomed Dodger players from Mexico, the Dominican Republic,...

Public broadcaster Kcet, and its stable of locally produced Southern California-centric programming, leads all local TV stations for this year’s Los Angeles Area Emmy Awards, scoring 20 nods overall, the Television Academy announced Monday.

Kcet pulled ahead of Univision-owned Kmex (which it tied with last year), which came in second with 15 nominations. After that was Telemundo’s Kvea, with 13, and then newcomer Spectrum News 1, with 12.

Spectrum News 1 was launched in late 2018 by Spectrum Cable, and earned three nominations last year despite launching midway through this year’s eligibility period. This was the first full eligiblity year for the local cable news channel.

Among traditional English-language commercial broadcast stations, Nexstar’s Ktla was first with seven nominations.

Kcet’s sister station Koce “PBS SoCal” earned an additional six nominations, giving the PBS SoCal Media Group a combined 26.

The Television Academy also revealed Kcet had already won an Emmy in the independent programming category.

Earlier this week, the Los Angeles Dodgers Foundation (Ladf) hosted its 5th Anniversary Blue Diamond Gala, a star-studded evening that featured an exhilarating performance by world-renowned musician Bruno Mars.

Bruno Mars Rocks 5th Anniversary Blue Diamond Gala

Credit/Copyright: Bruno Mars

Equality trailblazers Billie Jean King and Ilana Kloss were honored during the event, which raised over $3 Million and was attended by over 2,000 guests.

The Los Angeles Dodgers Ownership Group presented the 2019 Blue Diamond Gala. The group includes Chairman Mark Walter, Earvin Magic Johnson, Todd Boehly, Robert “Bobby” Patton, Jr., Peter Guber, Billie Jean King, and Ilana Kloss.

The evening also included a welcome from Emmy-nominated actor, Anthony Anderson, introduction of the 2019 Los Angeles Dodgers, highlight of youth impacted by Ladf’s programs, and SportsNetLA hosts Joe Davis and Orel Hershiser, who helped bring awareness to Ladf’s important work. DJ Rashida and DJ Severe provided the soundtrack for the evening.

Tom Brady says when the Red Sox beat L.A. in the World Series ... it'll be doubly sweet for him -- 'cause the Patriots legend says he freakin' Loathes the Dodgers!!! Tom made the revelation Monday on the "Kirk & Callahan" show on Weei ... saying, because he grew up a Giants fan in the Bay Area -- he's always hated the Dodgers. In fact ... when Brady was asked which L.A. player he disliked the most...