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Allen Martin
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Allen Martin co-anchors the 5 pm and 6 pm news Monday through Friday. He was hired by CBS 5 in August of 2004 as a reporter in the South San Francisco Bay area. Twelve months later he was promoted to anchor the weekend newscasts and in the fall of 2006 he was promoted to the 5pm newscast.
Allen started in broadcasting when, as a junior at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles; he produced a radio talk show for KLOS. In his senior year he took a job as a disc jockey in Sacramento - flying up on the weekends to work and back for school during the week.
After graduating in 1979, he worked in radio news in Sacramento (KZAP), Los Angeles (KMET), and San Francisco (KMEL). His career took him to Atlanta and also gave him the opportunity to move into TV news while working at CNN.
In 1986 he started anchoring and reporting in Fort Smith, Arkansas. After five years and promotions to assistant news director and main anchor Allen returned to his native California to work as the main anchor at the NBC affiliate in Salinas. He was there four years, co-anchoring with Clint Eastwood's wife, Dina Ruiz.
Just after the Oklahoma City bombing, Allen took the job as main anchor at KFOR in Oklahoma City. In 1998 he came back to California and the Monterey Peninsula to anchor and be the assistant news director for the CBS/FOX affiliate stations. Six years later CBS 5 gave him the chance to work in the most beautiful area in the world, San Francisco Bay.
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