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Published on Sunday, October 12, 2008
By LA Daily News Staff Writer
Renowned Los Angeles sportscaster Gil Stratton, who also appeared in 40 movies and was on the first hour-long television newscast, has died at age 86.
Stratton, who spent decades on KNXT, and then KCBS (both Channel 2), and reporting for KNX-AM (1070) on stories ranging from the arrival of the Dodgers to the Lakers "showtime" era, died Saturday at his Toluca LakeZZGB home.
Stratton was "dressed in his favorite robe, sitting in his favorite chair and watching his favorite sport - European soccer - on television when he fell asleep and never woke up," his widow, Dee, said Sunday.
In 1961, Stratton became an integral part of the nation's first regular television newscast longer than 15 minutes: Channel 2's hourlong "The Big News." Stratton and cohorts Jerry Dunphy and Bill Keene owned the early evening Los Angeles television airwaves for that decade, and became the prototype news team for local TV stations across the country
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