Dennis Richmond (May 26, 1943 – February 5, 2025) was an American news anchor who spent 40 years with Oakland, California-based KTVU.
His final show garnered 400,000 viewers, giving the newscast a 15.6 Nielsen rating and making him "more popular than Oprah".
[6] Dennis Richmond was a native of the area of Toledo, Ohio, and served in the United States Army for three years.
[7] Richmond was a member of the board of directors of the Child Abuse Consortium, which is a California statewide government agency.
[4][8] Former co-anchor Julie Haener shared on the noon newscast that he suffered a heart attack and a fall weeks before.