{"id":196269,"date":"2026-02-27T09:11:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-27T09:11:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/196269\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T09:11:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T09:11:08","slug":"beloved-california-news-anchor-dead-at-89","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/196269\/","title":{"rendered":"Beloved California news anchor dead at 89"},"content":{"rendered":"

Beloved California news anchor Dick Cable passed away on Wednesday from an illness. He was 89.<\/p>\n

Cable was a staple of the Sacramento news airwaves for three decades as the former anchor of KXTV.<\/p>\n

\"LongtimeBeloved California news anchor Dick Cable passed away on Wednesday from an illness. He was 89. Handout<\/p>\n

Born Richard Arnold Cable in New York on June 23, 1936, Dick followed in his father Homer Cable\u2019s footsteps, who worked for the military news outlet Stars and Stripes during and after World War II.<\/p>\n

In January 1969, Cable was hired by the CBS affiliate at the time in Sacramento News10, years later KXTV would also be the place he met his wife of 48 years, Berta Gonzales Cable when she interned at the station in 1973.<\/p>\n

In 1977, they tied the knot and they would go on to raise five children he shared from a previous marriage.\u00a0<\/p>\n

His career wasn\u2019t without a few bumps along the way. In the late 1970\u2019s he was taken off the air in the pursuit of a youth movement but he was back on the air by 1981.<\/p>\n

Speaking to the Bee at the time, Cable said \u201cI\u2019m not a wilting flower. I have a healthy ego \u2014 sometimes maybe an unhealthy one, I don\u2019t know, but the one thing the station has to know is that I toil here.\u201d<\/p>\n

His longtime co-anchor, Jennifer Smith, who he shared the news desk with, who now lives in New Orleans, told the Bee that Dick\u2019s personality immediately appealed to her.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cHe was so warm and real and no-nonsense and certainly not any kind of how some people view TV anchors as kind of pompous and slick,\u201d Smith said. \u201cHe was the opposite of that.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"FiveCable was a staple of the Sacramento news airwaves for three decades as the former anchor of KXTV. ABC10<\/p>\n

A Facebook post<\/a> for News10KXTV Reunion posted about the anchor\u2019s death from Jodie Mitchell Moreno.<\/p>\n

\u201cHello friends\u2026I have some very sad news to share.\u00a0 Dick Cable passed away today. I am in contact with his wife Berta and can share as I hear more, but please keep her in your thoughts and send virtual love,\u201d the post read.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The post added, \u201cDick was such an amazing man, friend and colleague.\u00a0 Over the years we\u2019ve stayed in touch, him sending me blonde jokes mostly.\u00a0 We went and visited with him and Berta this past year and it was so great to see him before his passing.\u00a0 Tell those you love how much they mean to you.\u201d<\/p>\n

Reading through the comments from people who said they worked with him, the thoughts were similar, that Cable was a great man and he would be missed.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy heart is full of so many memories of our dear friend and colleague. So grateful to have spent nearly 20 years anchoring together with Dick Cable\u2026a true broadcast legend. Rest in Peace dear friend,\u201d one person wrote.<\/p>\n

Another added, \u201cI\u2019m saddened by this news. I have so many memories of Dick. Not just as a coworker but as a friend. I remember those Halloween events, playing ball with my son, dinners at my house. Will miss you my friend.\u201d<\/p>\n

Another giant in the Sacramento broadcasting days when Cable was on the air, Stan Atkinson, who died in 2025, once described Dick and him as from another time in the news world.<\/p>\n

\u201cBeing a good guy may not carry the weight it once did, but Dick and I came from that old school where credibility was what it\u2019s about,\u201d Atkinson said in a 1988 Bee interview. \u201cHe is a good guy and it shows.\u201d<\/p>\n

ABC10 President and General Manager Risa Omega said \u201cDick leaves a legacy in this building and in this town.\u201d<\/p>\n

Cable is survived by his wife, his five kids and 10 grandchildren.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Beloved California news anchor Dick Cable passed away on Wednesday from an illness. He was 89. Cable was…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":196270,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[8986,7,9,8,4589,4182,121,3586],"class_list":{"0":"post-196269","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-california","8":"tag-abc-news","9":"tag-california","10":"tag-california-headlines","11":"tag-california-news","12":"tag-deaths","13":"tag-metro","14":"tag-sacramento","15":"tag-us-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196269","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=196269"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196269\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/196270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}