“We've been so lucky to get your unique perspective from both behind and in front of the camera lens all these years.” “Thank you for your dedication, wisdom and witty sense of humor that made so many of us big fans of your work,” Charity McCurdy McMenamin wrote. You are a true inspiration and an amazing person.”
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“You sent me a coupon for free bread in our welcome gift, and I named my cat after you.
“You were the first newscaster I watched when I moved to San Antonio 32 years ago,” wrote Adeina Anderson, a longtime Beamer fan who has the Facebook “top fan” badge to prove it. When he posted the news of his impending retirement late last month on his Facebook page, hundreds of well-wishers thanked him and gave him virtual hugs and thumbs-up for his work. That community has certainly celebrated Beamer. On : News 4 San Antonio anchor Randy Beamer shares look-alike photo on social media “I think of it as living here in this community and pointing out some of the problems we need to work on, but also celebrating all of the things we have.” “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.”
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