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Emmy-Winning CBS2/ KCAL9's Linda Alvarez Signs Off

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Nov 28, 2007 1:58 pm US/Pacific

Emmy-Winning CBS2/ KCAL9's Linda Alvarez Signs Off

LOS ANGELES (CBS) ― Emmy-winning CBS2/KCAL9 reporter and anchor Linda Alvarez, who became the first Latina to helm an English-language Los Angeles weekday newscast in 1986, will sign off the air for good on Sunday.



"We are sad to see her go," Don Corsini, president and chief executive of the two stations, said, "but understand and respect her desire to start spending more time with her husband Leo and enjoying the finer things in life."

She will anchor her final newscasts for both stations on Sunday. Alvarez, a native Angeleno and UCLA graduate who spent a month as an embedded reporter in Iraq in 2003, joined CBS2 as an anchor and reporter in 1993.

In addition to winning 12 local Emmys, she has received several Golden Mike Awards from the Los Angeles Press Club and has been awarded numerous accolades from other groups, including the YWCA of Los Angeles, Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund and Big Sisters of Los Angeles.   

After working as a teacher and administrator in Los Angeles, Venezuela, Chicago, Connecticut and New York, she started her career in television news at WMAQ in Chicago and worked at KPNX in Phoenix, where she was also an executive producer.

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