The reporter and anchor wasn't afraid to poke fun at his profession and himself in career that spanned decades across several stations
Paul Bloom, a TV reporter and anchor who worked at several San Diego stations in a career that spanned four decades, died Thursday at his home in Las Vegas. He was 76.
Bloom was born Sept. 26, 1946, in Albion, N.Y., and graduated from Syracuse University in 1968 with a journalism degree. He worked in TV in New York — co-anchoring the news at one point with future daytime tabloid talk show host Sally Jessy Raphael — before coming to San Diego.He was an anchor at Channel 39 from 1977 to 1982, and then again from 1984-86, with a stint at a station in Los Angeles in between. Then, when management decided to let him go, he wound up in radio on an AM oldies station.
Paul Krueger, an investigative producer for the station then, recalled how Bloom and photographer Kent Staab “would go out every day in a news car with the scanner and just roll around until they found a scene. Paul would get out, swagger around, talk to the cops and get the story.”
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