OAKLAND, Calif. - Belva Davis, the Bay Area and West Coast's first Black female television news anchor, has died at 92. KTVU has learned she died Wednesday morning after a long illness.

Her career spanned more than five decades as she worked in print, radio and television. According to the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences , (NATAS) San Francisco/Northern California Chapter inducted her into the Gold Circle Class of 2013, one year after her retirement from KQED in 2012.

Davis worked for several Bay Area television news outlets, including KTVU, KPIX, KRON, as well as the aforementioned public TV station – KQED, where she hosted the KQED-PBS show, This Week in Northern California, for nearly 20 years.

It was here at KTVU where she made her television debut in 1963 coverin

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