It would take a book to tell all of the professional and personal stories in the extraordinary life of Lopez, and that’s exactly what he has done in his recently released, very readable autobiograp…
For almost half a century, there wasn’t a major story happening in Southern California without the signature television reporting of Dave Lopez.
“At an early age, I had this burning desire to tell stories about people,” Lopez told me in a recent phone interview. “In the fifth-grade, I wrote an essay about how I wanted to be a sports announcer or a TV reporter when I grew up.” Lopez was born on Feb. 10, 1948, in East LA, the first of eight children, to Al and Matilda Lopez, the latter of whom was known to all as Tilly. Both of his parents were born in Mexico and moved to Los Angeles.
In 1955, his family moved to South Gate, where Lopez got his first job as a paper boy for the old Los Angeles Herald Express. “I could see his anger and disappointment, but he had told us over and over our whole lives: ‘I don’t care if you pick up trash for a living, as long as you’re the best trash guy out there!’” Lopez said. “There wasn’t much he could say; I was on fire to tell stories. I was trying like hell to become the best reporter ever.”
Lopez’s first venture into television came the same year he and Elain Married, working for Long Beach Cable, a Times-Mirror Company, covering the Long Beach and Palos Verdes Peninsula areas. It was at this time that George Putnam, who was winding down a distinguished career in broadcasting at Channel 9, told Lopez he had a “shot at a pretty good career,” Lopez recalled, if only he would “trim that nose of yours down. Just a little bit.”Lopez left Channel 9 for a TV station in San Diego, but he returned to Los Angeles in 1977 and started working for KCBS Channel 2.
He did not give details, Lopez said, because of California’s Shield Law, which protects reporters from testifying to anything they did not broadcast.
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