Nancy Osborne, trailblazing Action News anchor of nearly 40 years, dies at 78

FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- Nancy Osborne, the wide respected tv quality anchor who graced the Central California airwaves for astir 4 decades, has died astatine the property of 78.

Osborne joined the Action News squad backmost successful 1977. She was 1 of the archetypal pistillate newscasters successful Fresno and a relation exemplary for galore young women successful the industry. She went connected to go 1 of the longest-serving anchors successful the state to stay astatine a azygous station.

Osborne was besides a talented newsman who thrived telling stories retired successful the community. She covered countless memorable events, including the inauguration of President Ronald Reagan successful 1981, Queen Elizabeth II's sojourn to Yosemite National Park successful 1983, and some the motorboat of a abstraction shuttle astatine Cape Canaveral and its landing successful the California desert.

She besides went to oversea connected the USS Lincoln to study connected the pilots and sailors from the Valley. It was a communicative adjacent to her bosom aft increasing up successful a subject family.

Osborne teamed up with the precocious John Wallace to anchor evening newscasts with clarity and poise. She aboriginal shared the anchor table with Warren Armstrong earlier her status successful 2012.

In 2005, the Northern California section of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences inducted the Emmy award-winning Osborne into the prestigious Silver Circle for her committedness of 25 years oregon much to the Fresno tv marketplace and the broadcast quality industry.

In an interrogation astir her status successful 2012, Osborne shared her heavy appreciation for ABC30 viewers. She explained, "I ne'er would person lasted 20 minutes, overmuch little 20, 30 years. And it is due to the fact that of the folks who watched america each day, who listened to america erstwhile we called and asked for them to speech with america astir thing that whitethorn beryllium wonderful, happy, unhappy, sad, hard and opened up their homes and their businesses and their hearts to letting america archer stories that marque a quality successful the assemblage and enlighten the radical astir them, and for that, I americium perfectly grateful."

Osborne is survived by her hubby and daughter.