![]() However, before Coble, he had been known for not hiring women, saying women’s voices lacked gravitas. In 1972, KGMB News Director Bob Sevey poached Coble from KITV. Linda Coble reporting for KITV in the 1970s. “I was so pissed … I never crossed my legs.” “They asked me to cross my legs twice a show,” said Coble. She said when she became an anchor, KITV built a new set with a glass table. ![]() “I knew I had a lot on my shoulders, but all I cared about was telling the story correctly (and telling both sides),” said Coble.ĭespite shattering the glass ceiling to become Hawaii’s first female anchor, the sexual objectification of women was still rampant. The station promoted her, making Coble Hawaii’s first female tv news reporter, and then soon after that, she became Hawaii’s first female news anchor. “Every once in a while, I was sent out on a story because they needed a reporter and there was nobody in the room,” said Coble while talking to Spectrum News Hawaii at Cafe Julia in Downtown Honolulu. She also watched what everyone was doing, absorbing how to be a talented reporter. She took the news anchor’s dirty suits to the dry cleaners. Coble happily took the gig as it got her “foot in the door.” The following year, her grandmother sent her on a Hawaii vacation, and while there, she got a job at KITV as a newsroom secretary. The first time Linda Coble, 76, tried to get a job as a television news reporter, the station manager told her to get “more experience and a sex change operation.” This was in Portland, Oregon, in 1969. ![]() Read the first story on Denby Fawcett, who reported on Vietnam when she was 24, and the second on Catherine Cruz, who started her career in Guam. This profile is the third in a series on women journalists in Hawaii.
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