Broadcast Pioneers of Philadelphia

Larry Mendte

Broadcast Pioneers member Larry Mendte anchors KYW-TV, CBS 3’s Eyewitness News at 6 and 11 p.m. with Alycia Lane.

Mendte, a “hometown guy” whose first job in the news business was delivering the Evening Bulletin (a daily newspaper in Philadelphia at that time) as a boy.

Larry takes special pleasure in the fact that, as an adult, he is still delivering the evening news in Philadelphia. One of Philadelphia’s most honored broadcasters, Mendte has earned 16 regional Emmy Awards since returning to the Delaware Valley, three of which were in the “Best Anchor” category.

Before joining CBS 3 in July, 2003, Larry was evening news anchor for WCAU (Channel 10), the NBC station in Philadelphia. Mendte returned to Philadelphia in August of 1997 to anchor at NBC10.

Previously, he was a reporter for WTAJ-TV, Channel 10 in Altoona, Pennsylvania and then co-anchor at WLYH-TV in Lebanon-Lancaster, Pennsylvania. Before that, he co-hosted Access Hollywood, the daily half-hour entertainment news magazine produced by NBC in Los Angeles and was weekday anchor and investigative reporter at Chicago's WBBM-TV.

While at WBBM, Larry Mendte earned a record 27 Emmy Awards and was twice named "Best Reporter" in Illinois by the Associated Press. Prior to WBBM, Mendte was a main anchor for KFMB-TV in San Diego and a weekend anchor at WABC-TV in New York.

Born on January 16, 1957 and raised in Delaware County’s Lansdowne, Larry was graduated from Monsignor Bonner High School (1974) and West Chester University where he received his Bachelor of Arts degree in Communications.

Mendte and his wife, Fox 29 Anchor (and Broadcast Pioneers member) Dawn Stensland (formerly of Channel 3), make their home in Philadelphia with his son and daughter. On Friday, November 17, 2006, Larry Mendte was inducted into "The Broadcast Pioneers of Philadelphia's Hall of Fame."

The e-mail address of the Broadcast Pioneers of Philadelphia is pioneers@broadcastpioneers.com