Tritia Toyota
Tritia Toyota | |
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Born | March 29, 1947 KNBC-TV Ch. 4 Ch. 2KCBS-TV |
Spouse | Michael Yamaki |
Tritia Toyota (born March 29, 1947) is a former Los Angeles television news anchor and a current adjunct assistant professor in anthropology, Asian American studies and the media at the
Early life and education
Toyota was born in
Career
Toyota began her broadcast career in Los Angeles in 1970 as a radio reporter with
Toyota quit KNBC (which became News 4 L.A. at the time of her resignation) in March 1985 and, after a standard three-month period between contracts, signed on as a news anchor for Channel 2 News at KCBS-TV, where she was reunited with many of her fellow KNBC alumni (Marlow, Schubeck and weathercaster Kevin O'Connell). Her other co-anchors at KCBS included Chris Conangla, Ross Becker, Michael Tuck, Jerry Dunphy and Paul Dandridge.
Initially anchoring at 6 and 11 p.m., by the early to mid 1990s Toyota was relegated to the morning and midday editions of Channel 2 Action News. On November 17, 1999, the Los Angeles Times reported that Toyota had left KCBS and that she previously had been removed from early morning and noon newscasts in September and October 1999 (known as CBS 2 News at the time of her removal). The story also reported that Toyota had been offered an opportunity to continue at the station and that she had declined.
In 1981, Toyota, along with reporters Bill Sing, Nancy Yoshihara, David Kishiyama, Frank Kwan, and Dwight Chuman, founded the Asian American Journalists Association.[5][6] Toyota is currently an adjunct professor in the Department of Asian American Studies at UCLA. In 2009 she published a book "Envisioning America: New Chinese Americans and the Politics of Belonging".
Personal life
Toyota is married to Michael Yamaki and lives in the Los Angeles area.
In popular culture
Los Angeles punk rock band The Dickies recorded a song called "(I'm Stuck in a Pagoda with) Tricia Toyota." It's unclear whether the misspelling of Toyota's first name was deliberate or accidental.[7]
Toyota is also mentioned in "The L.A. Song," a song by L.A.
The TV news reporter character
References
- ^ UCLA Asian American Studies Faculty Archived 2010-04-18 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Teaching at the UCLA Asian American Studies Center
- ^ More Than Just A Pretty (Asian American) Face « Epicanthus (Beta 0.95)
- ^ ~Los Angeles Radio People, Where Are They T-Z
- OCLC 30915843.
- ^ "About, Asian American Journalists Association". Asian American Journalists Association. 23 October 2020. Retrieved 2021-07-17.
- ^ "Ask Losanjealous: What Does Tricia Toyota Look Like?". 23 February 2006.
- ^ "The L.A. Song" on Song Meanings