Veteran LA broadcaster Ralph Story Dies at 86

SANTA YNEZ, Calif., September 26, 2006 -- Southern California broadcasting pioneer Ralph Story has died.

The Emmy award winning reporter and anchor lost a long battle today with emphysema.

Story started in broadcasting in Buffalo in 1948 and went on to work at KNX radio in Los Angeles in the late 1940s.

He then moved to CBS's sister TV station in Los Angeles, KNXT, now KCBS-TV in the early 1960s.

Story was a part of "The Big News," one of the nation's first hour long local newscasts, working as the newscast's feature reporter.

The popularity of his segments led to a local show about the people and places of Los Angeles called "Ralph Story's Los Angeles," which aired for six years.

Story worked at KABC for several years in the 1970s before returning to Channel 2 where he finished his career.

He and his wife, Diana, had lived in Santa Barbara County's Santa Ynez Valley since the 1980s.

Funeral arrangements are pending.

Story was 86 years old.

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