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Kcet topped the list of Los Angeles TV stations with the most wins,10, at the 76th local Emmy Awards handed out by the Television Academy Saturday. It was followed by Kvea and Spectrum News 1 with 4 each, ABC7 and CBS2/KCAL9 with 3 and KTLA5 and Spectrum SportsNet with two.

One of KTLA5’s two Emmys went to the station’s veteran Ktla entertainment reporter Sam Rubin, who died of a heart attack in May. He was recognized for his news coverage of the SAG-AFTRA strike.

Three stations split the honors for Regularly Scheduled Newscast in the different day parts: Spectrum News 1 (morning), Kcal (Daytime) and Kvea (evening).

Here is a full list of winners:

Investigative News Story

Student Stabbed CBS2/KCAL9

(Kcal News At 11Pm)

Ross Palombo, Reporter, Writer

Angie Moriconi, Editor, Photographer

Feature Segment

Little Amal (Artbound) Kcet

Nic Cha Kim, Producer

Marley Lister, Associate Producer

Angela Boisvert,...

Well-known philanthropist Wallis Annenberg has been selected to receive a humanitarian award from Women’s Guild Cedars-Sinai at the organization’s spring luncheon.

Scheduled for April 20, the event will be hosted by TV journalist Wendy Burch inside the Beverly Wilshire hotel in Beverly Hills. Hammer Museum director Ann Philbin has been tapped to present Annenberg with the honor. The program will also spotlight a spring fashion show presented by Neiman Marcus as curated by Catherine Bloom.

Per the Women’s Guild, Annenberg has been singled out for “her innovative decades-long philanthropic work with the Annenberg Foundation.” Her charitable efforts have been spread across such fields as education, arts, culture, medical research, environmental stewardship, social justice and animal welfare and more. Per her official website, the foundation launched in 1989 and has since been dedicated to “addressing the critical issues of our time.”

She has served as chairman of the foundation since 2009. During her tenure,...

One reporter got a lot more than she bargained for while covering July 4th celebrations when someone projectile-vomited on her. And it all happened live. Related: Britain’s First Guide Pony Poos Live On TV Ktla reporter Wendy Burch was out at an Ironman competition on Hermosa Beach in Los Angeles, reporting live from the middle of […]...

Wendy Burch probably should have gone after a desk job. The KTLA5 reporter was sent to Hermosa Beach in Southern California on Tuesday to cover a unique Fourth of July “Ironman” competition, in which participants must run a mile on the beach, paddle a mile in the ocean, and then chug a six-pack of beer. Some “athletes” handled that last leg better than others. Predictably, there was some up-chucking — Burch probably didn’t plan her patriotic outfit out to be paired with vomit, however. Also Read: Tour de France: Here's What Got Peter Sagan Disqualified From Road Race (Video) “Oh no,...

Someone stop that hot runner! Ktla 5 Newscaster Wendy Burch grabbed a nearby runner for an on-camera interview about reports of shark sightings in Dana Point, California, and was clearly flustered by the guy's ripped body and Australian "accent." So when the interview was over, she did what was necessary and jokingly chased him down. The "Aussie" runner - who was actually identified in Facebook comments as an (American) UCLA student and pole vaulter named Riley Turner - said that beach-goers shouldn't worry about the sharks. "I mean, the sharks are always going to be there," Turner says, in a wavering Australian accent.