George Takata

A valley resident since 1985 and a Fresno television sports anchor since 1996, George Takata has become one of the most recognizable news personalities in the Central Valley.  His vast knowledge of local sports and countless hours of community service have helped develop hundreds of friendships and contacts along the way. The only television sports anchor with his own sports talk radio show (96.1 FM Sporting News Radio), Takata is broadening his horizons even more, with the creation of valleysportspulse.com, the valley’s only website dedicated solely to local sports.

Through the years as a sportscaster on CBS 47, Takata has covered the Super Bowl, National Invitation Tournament in New York, the Major League Baseball playoffs, the 2003 AFC Championship Game between the Raiders and Titans in Oakland, every Fresno State football bowl game this decade, and, the most exciting time of his career, the 2008 College World Series in Omaha, where Fresno State won the National Championship in baseball. He is currently the second longest tenured sportscaster in the Fresno market.

Takata graduated from Clovis West High School in 1990, Fresno City College in 1993, and earned his B.A. in Mass Communications and Journalism from Fresno State in 1997. He has worked in the broadcast industry since 1990.

George owns an Associated Press Award for best local newscast, an accolade he shares with his 6 o’clock news team at CBS 47. Takata was also nominated for an emmy in 1995 for his reporting of high school football. Among his many charitable efforts, Takata has helped raise money for the Polycystic Kidney Disease Foundation, Downtown Fresno’s Chinatown District, Boys and Girls Club of Oakhurst, Diabetic Youth Foundation and the Fresno Metropolitan Museum. George has also emceed preseason and postseason banquets for Fresno State football, men’s and women’s basketball, track and field, volleyball and women’s golf, as well as Clovis West football and baseball, and the baseball programs of Edison High School, Hoover High School and Fresno Pacific University. Takata has made numerous speaking engagements at various schools across the valley, and has most recently joined The Professional Connection, a local networking group for businesses, and taken part in Fresno State’s Take A Student To Eat (TASTE) Day, a mentoring program for Broadcast Journalism students on campus.

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