Tricia Takasugi
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Tricia Ann Takasugi (born March 2, 1961, in Oxnard, California) is a Japanese-American general assignment reporter for KTTV Fox 11 in Los Angeles.
Biography
Takasugi was born in Oxnard, California, one of five children born to the late Nao Takasugi and his wife Judy.[1] She graduated from UCLA in 1988 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Spanish.[2]
Takasugi began her broadcasting career as a general assignment reporter at KABC-TV in Los Angeles, during the late 1980s and early 1990s. In the mid-1990s, Takasugi began working for KTTV FOX 11 as a general assignment reporter. After FOX purchased local station KCOP-TV, Takasugi began reporting for both stations.
Family Guy
The female Asian reporter from Fox's "Family Guy," Tricia Takanawa, is believed to be a parody of her.
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- ↑ Nao Takasugi remembered at Oxnard event. URL accessed on April 11, 2010.
- ↑ UCLA - Bruin Life Campus Yearbook Class of 1988. URL accessed on April 11, 2010.
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- Living people
- People from Oxnard, California
- American television journalists
- American writers of Japanese descent
- University of California, Los Angeles alumni
- 1961 births
- Journalists from Oregon
- Journalists from California
- 20th-century American journalists
- 20th-century American women journalists
- American women television journalists
- American women journalists of Asian descent
- 21st-century American women