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Mike Hagerty

Interim News Anchor

Mike is a native Californian, born in Los Angeles. But in the years just before Mike’s birth, his parents lived in Sacramento, made many friends here, and Mike spent a week of every summer as a child in Sacramento when the family would come to visit. He grew up on ice cream from Vic’s and Gunther’s and movies at the Crest and Tower.

After his father died when he was 8, he and his mother moved to Bishop, in the Owens Valley, where members of his extended family have lived since 1920.

He began his career in radio in Bishop when he was 15 and worked in San Luis Obispo and Ukiah before leaving California for Reno, where he spent seven years, and transitioned from radio to TV.

After a 30-year career in TV news in Reno, Las Vegas and Phoenix, Mike returned to radio doing traffic reports for several western cities and national newscasts for the iHeartRadio app.

In 2013, he came home to California, and worked as Morning News Editor for KFBK in Sacramento. In 2014, Mike was one of the winners of the Bill Stout Memorial Award for Excellence in Spot News Radio and the Murrow Award for Breaking News Coverage. Over the next six years, he was promoted to Executive Producer, Managing Editor, Assistant News Director, News Director and Afternoon Co-Anchor.

Mike joined CapRadio in 2020 as interim anchor for both All Things Considered and Morning Edition and anchored special coverage of the 2020 election.

Mike has also been writing about cars since 1997 for outlets including the BBC and several AAA auto club magazines. Currently, his car reviews appear on his own website, MikeHagertyCars.com, and in the Los Altos Town Crier. Mike is Executive Vice President of Western Automotive Journalists, the guild for automotive writers in Northern California.

Mike’s passions include reading, writing, travel, history, nature, architecture, design, automobiles, politics, food, music, film, and theater.

Mike and his wife, Dr. Rhonda Hagerty, an educator, live in Folsom.

 

    Stories by Mike Hagerty

  • Andrew Nixon /CapRadio

    Business Journal: Some Sacramento-Area Restaurants Are Surviving The Pandemic

    January 22, 2021

    With the shifting coronavirus restrictions in California, many local restaurants have had to make the hard decision to close over the past year. But some have survived due to support from the community.

  • WATG

    Business Journal: New 14-Story Luxury Hilton Hotel Coming To Downtown Sacramento

    January 15, 2021

    The hotel will be the first Canopy by Hilton, a boutique luxury brand, in the Sacramento area. Plans for the hotel include a ground floor restaurant and bar, a rooftop lounge and apartments on the upper floors.

  • Randol White / Capital Public Radio

    Business Journal: New Plans For Sacramento Railyards Include 5,000-Capacity Entertainment Venue

    January 8, 2021

    Developers have filed plans with the city of Sacramento for new projects within the area known as The Shops, which includes historic buildings that date back to the late 19th and early 20th century.

  • Andrew Nixon / CapRadio

    What Are The Upside-Down Cones Stuck Under Sacramento Freeways? A Way To Save The Birds And Bats.

    December 31, 2020

    If you’ve noticed what looks like upside-down traffic cones stuck to the underside of freeway overpasses in the Sacramento area, they're actually a way to protect birds and bats during Caltrans construction projects.

  • Andrew Nixon / CapRadio

    Sacramento Business Journal: How The Pandemic Is Shaping Local Businesses

    December 18, 2020

    Now nearly a year into the pandemic, many business owners are starting to see the unique ways the pandemic has changed the way the economy functions. For some, it’s changed in surprisingly good ways.

  • Sacramento Business Journal: Rocklin And Loomis fight Over A Future Costco Store

    December 11, 2020

    The town of Loomis approved a Costco to be built on the border of Loomis and Rocklin, much to the chagrin of Rocklin. The city has sued Loomis in hopes of rescinding approval of the huge Costco store due to traffic and tax issues.

  • Andrew Nixon / CapRadio

    Sacramento's Record 2020 Voter Turnout Likely Not Sign Of A Trend, Political Analyst Says

    December 3, 2020

    CapRadio spoke with Paul Mitchell, vice president of Political Data Inc., who says several factors drove this year's turnout.

  • AP Photo/Noah Berger, File

    Can California's Curfew Slow The Spread Of COVID-19? We Asked An Infectious Disease Specialist.

    November 20, 2020

    CapRadio spoke with Dr. Lee Riley, an infectious disease specialist at UC Berkeley’s School of Public Health, who said the curfew will only impact a small number of people.

  • Andrew Nixon / CapRadio

    Sacramento Business Journal: The Impact Of Coronavirus Restrictions On Local Businesses

    November 20, 2020

    The new curfew for purple counties in California is now just one more challenge for local restaurants and businesses in the state. CapRadio’s Mike Hagerty spoke with Sacramento Business Journal’s Sonya Sorich about what this means for the industry.

  • Andrew Nixon / Capital Public Radio

    Business Journal: Downtown Sacramento Business Leaders Send Letter To Mayor Over Public Safety Concerns

    October 23, 2020

    Recently, 59 Sacramento business leaders sent a signed letter to Mayor Darrell Steinberg’s office to warn local leaders about the “growing anxiety over public safety, cleanliness and other quality of life issues” in downtown.

 

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