KNX News is remembering one of its own.
Traffic reporter Tim Greenwood, who helped drivers navigate the Southern California roads on the weekends, died Monday. He was 63 years old.
His journalism career began in 1991 with WTOG-TV in Florida as the fill-in anchor and weatherman, according to his LinkedIn. He then worked as a producer for the Home Shopping Network before moving on to KNX News in 1999, where he started doing traffic reports.
He left the station in 2008 but returned in 2019.
KNX News traffic reporter Scott Burt said Greenwood had “an interesting delivery.”
“You could tell he was smiling,” he said. “He was very happy with what he was doing.”
KNX News weekend anchor Elsa Ramon recalled the moment she knew Greenwood would be great to work with.
“There was one show in particular, maybe a month or two after we had started working together, and there was a story just before traffic and it had the song, ‘Who Let the Dogs Out,” she said. “And that song was playing.. then [I] tossed to Tim and I said, ‘Hey, Tim, who let the cars out?’ and without missing a beat, he said, ‘ Toot! Toot! Toot! Toot!’ And it was just, it was so silly and spontaneous, and we both just started laughing.”
His wife, Karen, said reporting traffic was “his way of helping people on the road get to where they needed to go safely.”
“He would come home from L.A.
into San Bernardino County and come home [using] surface streets just so he can learn the roads, and learn alternate ways and take alternate ways so he can talk about them accurately,” she said.
Her husband, she said, was “do good-er.”
“He always posted a Friday traffic tip,” she said. “At one time, he had a website called Freeway Furniture and some hints for tying down things so it didn't become freeway furniture.”
Greenwood was a colleague and a friend, and his presence will be sorely missed in the newsroom.
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