Longtime Bay Area television news anchor Dennis Richmond has died at the age of 81, his former employer KTVU reported.

Dennis Richmond, a beloved Bay Area newsman died Wednesday, KTVU reports. A rarity in the business, he stayed at one station for his entire career.

Dennis Richmond, KTVU-TV anchor of 32 years, died Wednesday, two months after suffering a heart attack. He was 81 years old.

Legendary KTVU anchor Dennis Richmond has died. One of the first Black anchors in a major news market, Richmond joined the San Francisco-based Fox-affiliated station in 1968, and remained there until his retirement in 2008.

Legendary KTVU anchorman Dennis Richmond, the quintessential newsman of four decades – an anchor still most associated with Channel 2 long after his retirement – has died.

Fond remembrances poured in Wednesday for the storied KTVU journalist, who was one of the nation’s first Black major-market news anchors and worked at the station for four decades.

The man considered the Bay Area's most well-known news anchor has died. Dennis Richmond was the anchor for KTVU in San Francisco from 1976 to 2008.

Dennis Richmond, the beloved anchor of San Francisco’s FOX affiliate KTVU-TV for 32 years, passed away on Wednesday in Grass Valley, California. Friends shared with KTVU that Richmond died with his wife,