...and now  Ed Arnold with sports

With a broadcasting career going back three decades, Ed Arnold's long experience as a newscaster and anchor began when he was a Radio-TV-Film student at Cal State Long Beach in the late 1960's.

"I was one of the first rock-n-roll DJ's when I was a kid," Arnold said, referring to the time he spent working extra at a radio station while going to school.

Not until he enrolled at CSULB, Arnold said did he changed his mind and wanted to work with television broadcasting.

From then on, Arnold carries a long list of later achievements. For about 10 years he was a member of the Eyewitness News Team at KABC-TV, and later was a fixture of KCET-TV for another decade.

For the last 30 years, he has been a volunteer announcer for Dr. Robert Schuller's "Hour of Power."

However, his most recent broadcasting career was spent at KTLA-TV where he was a sports anchor for 13 years,  until July of this year when he left the network.

Together with Stu Nahan, Arnold was voted the Best Television Sports Anchor Staff for the last three years at KTLA-5.

"I've been lucky to have covered most major athletes in the last 30 years," he said.

His coverage includes four winter Olympics, the World Series and U.S. Open Championship, as well as major athletes such as Shaquille O'Neil, Michael Jordan, Wilt Chamberlain and Florence Griffith Joyner.

Living in Fountain Valley with his wife, 59-year-old Arnold said he now has more time to spend together with his wife as well as his two grandsons. Although he quit KTLA-TV, Arnold said he still continues to serve at benefits, fund-raisers and various other events each year..