![]() ![]() “I don’t think of it as a body of work,” Beamer said. Following the family of Tracy Ortiz, a young mother on the West Side who was killed in a drive-by shooting in 2003. Turning his interviews with Selena into a mini-documentary right after the singer’s death. Covering a Bandidos funeral back when he was with KENS as gang members shoveled dirt on a casket. Yet for all those career highlights, Beamer spoke just as fondly of more up-close-and-personal stories. Then there are those Texas tragedies Beamer has covered on the scene: Hurricane Ike from Galveston and Hurricane Harvey from Houston, the high school shooting in Santa Fe and the church shooting in Sutherland Springs. He also has covered Texans guarding detainees at Guantanamo Bay. In 2006, Beamer traveled to Iraq to report and shoot his own documentary about San Antonians who ran the biggest hospital in the war-torn country. That eye for highlighting the stories of San Antonio and South Texas has taken him around the nation and around the world. Harris praised Beamer as a genius and a dry wit who genuinely cares about getting the story and not being the story, whether it’s about politics on both sides of the border, conflicts foreign and domestic, or just that beat-up old ice house on the outskirts of town. And he has often landed those stories by trading the coziness of the news desk for a more boots-on-the-ground perspective with his own camera. Yet while Beamer’s look and co-anchors have changed over the years, the veteran reporter’s love for telling the stories of San Antonio has never gone out of style. The Normal, Ill., native first hit the Alamo City market in 1983 at KENS-TV, but he is best known for his three decades of service with News 4, going back to 1989 when the NBC affiliate rocked the call letters KMOL and Beamer rocked a mustache that would give Ron Burgundy anchorman envy. “(So) it’s not an end, it’s just a beginning.” “The R-word for me is kind of hard,” he said. ![]() He will retire with his farewell newscast at 10 p.m. Here's how he did.Īfter more than 40 years in television news, Beamer, 61, is signing off. On : Veteran news anchor Randy Beamer did the weather. And he kind of understands their stories and cares deeply about individuals in our community.” And because of that, it’s got him more empathetic and compassionate to all people of San Antonio. ![]() “He’s obsessed with the history of the city. “Beamer is San Antonio,” said Don Harris, the longtime News 4 San Antonio sports anchor. His fans and colleagues would beg to differ. ![]() “It’s not that big a deal when anybody in news moves on.” When demonstrating an “As Seen On TV” product called Hot Buns, the women of Take Five & Company notice that Hot Buns, uh, looks like something else.“It’s not news,” Beamer said. Of course, I’d be remiss without bringing up one of my personal favorites that didn’t make the cut - a penis news blooper honorable mention - compliments of Take Five & Company, a live weekday morning lifestyle program on WZZM in Grand Rapids. Here you’ll also find accidental foam penises, penises that demonstrate the dangers of playing with sand on live TV, sports commentary penises (which are not all that different from weather map penises), drawing game penises, and penis-shaped cloud formations. (Pun absolutely intended.) This is the subject of the latest blooper compilation from News Be Funny, which takes the best penis outtakes and condenses them into one ten minute long clip.īut weather maps are just cracking the surface when it comes to penis-shaped news bloopers. Pretty much as long as meteorologists have had the ability to draw on weather maps, accidental dick and balls have been making their way onto live news programs - or the “crown jewels” of news bloopers, if you will. ![]()
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