Annette Parks, Bay Area broadcaster, daughter of Bert Parks
bway...@gmail.com
November 11. I was tipped off to it by a posting on tvgameshows.net.
Annette Parks
March 24, 1949 - October 27, 2007
Annette Parks, Jr. of San Francisco, former San Francisco radio
broadcaster and daughter of the late broadcasting pioneer Bert Parks,
died at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles on Oct. 27 of
complications following spinal surgery. Annie was a news editor,
reporter and anchor at KCBS (AM) Radio in the early 1980s. In 1984,
she helped launch "Hot Hits" KITS (FM), now known as "Live 105,"
serving as the station's first news director. She later worked as a
news anchor at the short-lived free-form rock station, KKCY "The City.
Before moving to San Francisco, she worked as a videographer and
technician at KABC-TV in Los Angeles, where her work earned a "Golden
Mike" award from the Radio/Television News Association of Southern
California. Her mother, Annette Parks, Sr.; twin brothers, Jeffrey and
Joel, and three beloved cats survive her. Celebrations of her life
will be held by her family in So. CA and her friends in SF.
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I found one thread about her in Google Groups, on the Bay Area
newsgroup ba.broadcast, posted by Mark Howell on October 28:
"Former Bay Area broadcaster, and my very close friend of more than 25
years, Annette Parks passed away Saturday morning at Cedars-Sinai
Medical Center in Los Angeles, from cardiovascular and pulmonary
complications following the latest in a long series of back
surgeries. She was 58.
Annie was a reporter/anchor at KCBS in the early 1980's, the first
news director at KITS (in its "Hot Hits" incarnation), and afternoon
anchor at KKCY "The City," before health problems forced her into a
premature retirement that she never acknowledged would be permanent."