Tony Valdez was a local broadcast news legend, respected by viewers and peers alike for covering crime and for his encyclopedic knowledge of L.A.
In the fall of 2021, Tony Valdez visited the East Los Angeles College newsroom, carrying envelopes stamped with his organization’s emblem. He stood before a group of student journalists eager to be like him., Valdez explained its mission to financially support working professionals. Layoffs, low pay and furloughs amid the COVID-19 pandemic — the former KTTV-TV Channel 11 broadcaster knew first-hand how grueling the industry could be.
A mentor to many, Valdez died May 4 of kidney failure in his Hollywood home, said his son, Steve Valdez. He was 78. “The talent was there, but he didn’t really know what to do with that talent,” Steve Valdez said. “But on some level, he was impressing people with freelance pieces that he may have been doing.”
Accolades soon followed in the form of Emmys and awards from the Los Angeles Press Club. With a steady paycheck, Valdez purchased his prized 1985 Honda Prelude. Longtime followers of Valdez shared their memories of the broadcaster on Devine’s Facebook post. Some described the newsman as a “truth seeking bulldog” and as the “human Thomas Guide, which I suppose would be today’s version of the human Waze.”
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