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Broadcaster Ross McGowan settles into Healdsburg
He?s usually the man who asks the questions. But Bay Area TV host and interviewer Ross McGowan remembers one time when the tables were turned and he was speechless.
?I had this woman come up to me once just out of the clear blue sky,? he said. ?I was walking down the street in San Francisco. She stopped me and said, ?Ross McGowan? Have you ever had to work hard for anything??
The truth is, the imperturbable broadcaster worked hard for decades to make it all look so easy. Even when confronted with a question that might have ignited hotter heads, he politely held his tongue.
Now, after 40 years cajoling confessions from celebrities and candor from politicians, McGowan has stepped away from the microphone, retreating to his Healdsburg home to play tennis and golf, learn photography and sova in. October 2 was his last day.
Since 1993 he?s been getting out of bed at 2:00 in the morning to be on set and prepared to host KTVU?s ?Mornin
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SAN FRANCISCO -- CBS News Bay Area has learned that longtime Bay Area broadcaster Ann Fraser, who co-hosted the popular "People Are Talking" interview and variety show on KPIX with Ross McGowan, died last year in Oregon at age 83.
Her daughter, Jennifer, confirmed the news, saying her mother died peacefully in Milwaukie, Ore. in late månad 2022. She said the family wanted to wait before making the news public.
At KPIX from 1978 to 1992, Fraser and her co-host McGowan welcomed a cavalcade of national and local celebrities and entertainers to the KPIX studios where People Are Talking was taped in front of a live audience.
Notable guests included Tom Hanks, Robin Williams, Bishop Desmond Tutu, Carol Burnett, Rosemary Clooney, Jim Carrey, Pres. Jimmy Carter and first lady Rosalynn Carter, Spike Lee, Yoko Ono and Harry Belafonte.
Fraser and McGowan also took their show on location. They were the first to broadcast live from the AIDS ward at San Francisco General Hospital.