Grand Rapids Reporter Headed to Left Coast

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Wood-TV Reporter Ryan Takeo is making an over 30 market jump into a top 10 market.​

The Grand Rapids Reporter is joining KPIX in San Francisco in early June. He is represented by MediaStars.​'

Here is the internal memo sent to the KPIX staff announcing ​Takeo's hire:

From: Rosenheim, Dan 
Sent: Tuesday, May 21, 2013 3:11 PM
To: @KPIX News All
Cc: @KPIX-KBCW Dept. Heads; Cohen, Bruno
Subject: new reporter

All Hands,

I am very pleased to announce that Ryan Takeo will join our staff June 10 as a general assignment reporter/MMJ.

Ryan comes to us from WOOD-TV in Grand Rapids, Michigan, where he has been a reporter/MMJ for the past three years.

Ryan is a Los Angeles native and holds a degree in broadcast journalism from the University of Missouri. I hope you will join me in welcoming him to KPIX-5!

Dan Rosenheim

Vice President, News Director KPIX/KBCW

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