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JOHN KESSLER, News Anchor, KPIX CBS 5. John is the Co-Anchor for the KPIX CBS 5 Eyewitness News Early Edition. He joined the station in October of 2002. In 2004, he won an Emmy award for his reporting from Baghdad, and more recently, won another one for Best Daytime Newscast. His broadcasting career began as an award-winning radio disc jockey, working in Jacksonville, Charlotte; Detroit and San Diego. In the early 80's, John jumped from his successful radio career to television by moving from San Diego to Fresno. A few years later he was in Germany covering the fall of communism and the Berlin Wall. John moved to San Francisco in 1990 and worked briefly for TV-20. He then joined KRON as a Reporter and eventually became a "bureau chief." A decade later he ended his career at KRON as Bay TV Morning Anchor. His next stop was KPIX CBS-5. John works with many charities, including: The Shelter Network, St. Rose Hospital Foundation, Speedway Children's Charities and Hope Hospice. John studied journalism at San Diego State, psychology at North Carolina State and mechanical engineering at Corning College

 

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written by Traude & Jerry Schwerzler, February 28, 2011
Both my husband and I miss John in the a.m. His wit and charm got our day going. He knew when to get serious and when to have some fun. It is a HUGE loss for KPIX CBS 5. We now watch Channel 7.
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written by jen, March 11, 2011
Morning news is boring without John - One of the local station should have enough sense to bring him on soon!smilies/angry.gif
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written by Powell, March 22, 2011
Sure miss John! He and was full of life and had a special gift of starting the day off right! CBS, what were you thinking when you let him go! I too, watch another morning news. And where is Tracy? She was refreshing to watch in the mornings. All the more reason why I changed channels.
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written by Lia, March 31, 2011
BRING BACK JOHN! Channel 5 morning news? who's that? Yep I no longer watch them. John Kessler made my mornings happy
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written by jodi, April 28, 2011
what is happening. this show is now female dominated and everyone is in different rolls all the time..it's really odd. i'm a female and i miss John. I do not like the new guy very much, and wonder why you thought he was better then John. Wake up!!
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written by Gwen Moore, June 08, 2011
Big mistake!!!! CBS MORNING NEWS is not the same. Channel 7 it is...
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written by Laurel, August 16, 2011
The first time I watched John Kessler he was laughing so hard while scoring (uh, reporting) Pamplona's Bulls vs. Humans. I was getting ready for work and he put me in such a good mood that I became an instant fan. I had to move to southern California, and quite honestly, I missed John in the morning. I think of him every year during the running of the bulls.

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