KPIX 5 Anchor, Reporter Allen Martin To Retire

CBS San Francisco

SAN FRANCISCO, CA — A longtime fixture of the KPIX 5 newsroom will be moving on after Tuesday's primary election as anchor and reporter Allen Martin retires from broadcasting.

Martin spent 18 years at KPIX 5, starting as a freelance reporter covering the Scott Peterson trial. He would eventually take over the weekend anchor desk, replacing Doug Murphy behind the news desk on Saturdays and Sundays. He would eventually become a weeknight anchor, sharing the desk with co-anchor Elizabeth Cook for the 5 p.m. news while still frequently reporting at night.

Allen started in broadcasting when, as a junior at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles, he produced a radio talk show for KLOS. In his senior year he took a job as a disc jockey in Sacramento – flying up on the weekends to work and back for school during the week.

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