{"id":36859,"date":"2025-07-04T02:04:04","date_gmt":"2025-07-04T02:04:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/36859\/"},"modified":"2025-07-04T02:04:04","modified_gmt":"2025-07-04T02:04:04","slug":"jim-hill-to-receive-los-angeles-area-emmy-governors-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/36859\/","title":{"rendered":"Jim Hill to Receive Los Angeles Area Emmy Governors Award"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tJim Hill<\/a>, the NFL player turned sportscaster who has been a stalwart of the Los Angeles\u2019 sports scene for six decades and counting, will be feted with the Los Angeles Area Emmy Governors Award at a ceremony later this month.<\/p>\n

\n\tHill is a fixture of L.A. airwaves, and he ranks as one of the nation\u2019s most respected and well-known sports anchors. He\u2019s started his career at what was then KNXT-TV (now KCBS-TV Los Angeles) in 1976. In 1987, he moved to ABC-owned KABC-TV for four years but returned to KCBS in 1992. Hill is known as a straight-shooter in his reporting and for his Texas-inflected flair in describing games and interviewing sports figures.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cJim is a legendary and beloved figure in sports broadcasting \u2014 a trusted voice and a true pioneer in Los Angeles area news,\u201d said Abrego. \u201cHis decades of dedication, excellence and influence have left an indelible mark on the industry; and we are proud to celebrate his extraordinary contributions to our Southland television community.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThe Los Angeles Area Emmy Awards will be handed out July 26 at the Skirball Cultural Center. Spectrum News 1 anchor Kelvin Washington will host.<\/p>\n

\n\tAt present, Hill is the sports anchor for the 4 p.m. and 5 p.m. weekday newscasts on CBS2 (KCBS), and he hosts the weekend edition of the station\u2019s \u201cSports Central\u201d program. Over his long career he\u2019s also covered such events as the Super Bowl and Winter Olympics. He\u2019s also hosted pay-per-view boxing on Showtime. Hill got his start at the mic while he was playing football for Texas A&I University. He went on to play in the NFL for the San Diego Chargers, Green Bay Packers and Cleveland Browns before retiring to pursue broadcasting.<\/p>\n

\n\tHill has long been active as a philanthropist and L.A. civic leader. He has served as chair of Los Angeles County\u2019s \u201cJust Say No\u201d antidrug program, as president of the nonprofit Athletes for Kids and chair of the Watts Summer Games. He has served on the board of directors of the Los Angeles Urban League and on the advisory board for the Grossman Burn Center.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe veteran broadcaster earned a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2006. He was inducted into the Southern California Sports Broadcasters Hall of Fame in 2010. He\u2019s collected career achievement honors from the the Associated Press, Los Angeles Press Club, United Press International and USA Today, among other organizations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jim Hill, the NFL player turned sportscaster who has been a stalwart of the Los Angeles\u2019 sports scene…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":36860,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5123],"tags":[1582,276,30046,30047,2961,224,5337],"class_list":{"0":"post-36859","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-california","10":"tag-emmys","11":"tag-jim-hill","12":"tag-la","13":"tag-los-angeles","14":"tag-losangeles"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36859","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36859"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36859\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36860"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}