Ann Martin

Who is Ann Martin?

Ann Martin is a former award-winning journalist and a news anchor for CBS owned-and-operated KCBS-TV and KCAL-TV television stations in Los Angeles, California.

Martin was born in Portland, Oregon and raised in Everett, Washington, where her father Paul Marmont worked at the former Everett Western Gear facility. She attended the nearby University of Washington, where she majored in communications and earned a Bachelor of Arts in 1972.

Shortly after graduation, Martin began her broadcasting career at KIRO-TV as a weathercaster for the station's morning newscasts. She would soon advance become the first woman in the Seattle market to solo anchor a newscasts when she was promoted to weekend co-anchor.

After reporting and anchoring for KIRO for a few years, Martin moved to Los Angeles in April 1976 to work for KABC-TV as a reporter. Again she soon worked her way up to an anchor position, initially co-anchoring the Saturday editions of Eyewitness News. In the fall of 1980, KABC expanded its news to three hours on weeknights, and Martin began co-anchoring the 5 p.m. hour with Paul Moyer; the on-air partnership would last for almost 12 years until Moyer's return to rival KNBC-TV in 1992.