The Exits Continue in Seattle

FTVLive has been documenting all the TV newsies that have been leaving TV stations in Seattle.

You can add KOMO Reporter Keith Eldridge to the list.

Eldridge has been in the business for 50 years and has spent 38 years at the station and the past 23 years as the South Sound bureau chief at the Sinclair station.

Eldridge says, "I'm amazed I'm sitting here. All these years later. 50 years of doing this. Nixon was president when I started."

He studied at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo, with no intention of getting into broadcasting.

Eldridge says "I did play one year of college basketball. I was good enough to do that. I sat on the bench. Which was a good thing. Because I sat next to the radio play-by-play guys at the college station. And they said 'you oughta come down and take a look at what we're doing, and I said, 'really?'"

While the man certainly deserves to retire, it leaves another big hole in Seattle Journalism.

He will be missed by viewers and co-workers alike.

H/T KOMO