Broadcast Pioneers (continued)

Linda Yu
Reporter-Anchor, KATU-TV (Portland), 1975

     A native of X'ian, China, Linda Yu and her family moved to Hong Kong when she was two years old. Three years later, they immigrated to the Untied States, first Philadelphia and then to Indiana and California. She became the first Asian American to be on a network station in Chicago.

     From March 1975 to December 1975, Linda was news anchor and reporter at KATU-TV in Portland, Oregon. Before that, she held positions at two Los Angeles stations, KTLA-TV and KABC-TV. From 1976 to 1979, Linda worked as a general assignment reporter at KGO-TV in San Francisco, and then moved to Chicago's WMAQ-TV to serve as a general assignment reporter and weekend co-anchor. By 1981, she was co-anchor for its 4:30 p.m. and 10:00 p.m. newscasts. In April 1984, Linda joined WLS-TV in Chicago, where she currently co-anchors the 11:30a.m. and 4:00 p.m. Eyewitness News.

     Since going to Chicago, Linda has earned three local Emmy Awards. In 1984, she was honored with a National Gold Medal from the National Conference of Christians and Jews for her documentary The Scars of Belfast. Linda is on the board of the Juvenile Protective Association, chairs the annual March of Dimes Mother's March, and is co-chair of the advisory board of the Chinese American Service League. She is also co-founder of Chicago's Asian American Journalists Association.

     Linda resides in Chicago with her son and daughter.

Howard Yuen
Engineer, KPIX-TV (San Francisco), 1948

     Howard Yuen earned his broadcast license in 1942 and went to work for KSFO in August of that year. At the time, the company also owned KWID and KWIX, shortwave radio stations, which broadcast foreign language news to Asia for The Voice of America during the war years. In the summer of 1948, the company purchased television equipment and started KPIX. On Christmas Eve of that year, the first program aired was the movie "Scrooge." Since then, Howard has seen many new developments, which brought about a lot of changes in the industry. He retired in 1978, after serving thirty-six years with KPIX.

Linda Yee
General Assignment Reporter, NBC/KRON-TV Newscenter 4, 1973

     Linda Yee graduated with a B.A. degree in Journalism from San Francisco State University. From 1973 to 1977, Linda worked as a producer and news writer for Channel 4. She then worked for KGO-TV and KPIX-TV until she returned to KRON-TV in 1980. Linda's reporting has garnered eleven Emmy nominations and four Emmy Awards from the Northern California Chapter of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences. She recently received the "Best News Series" Award from the Radio and Television News Directors Association in 1998 for her two-part series Big Brother.

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