There was no way to jet off together or even have a dinner.”įortunately, the sports department was just a stepping-stone for both of them. “If one of us had vacation, the other one had to work. “There was a long time where we couldn’t have a relationship because of our whole dynamic as a two-per-son sports department,” says Uyehara. The only problem being that they were the whole department. Working seven days a week together, side-by-side, can go only a couple of ways, and soon romance was in the offing. Little did he know he had gained more than a partner in sports, for Chun would eventually become his partner in life. ![]() ![]() “Funny how that works, one week I am completely depressed, thinking I am out of luck and I got nothing, then a week later Rick called me and told me, ‘I think I have something for you,'” says Uyehara. He returned home, started interning at KITV, got picked up by KHON and then, as this business is wont to do, found himself on the wrong side of budget cuts and was looking at getting into teaching.īut the man who had to let him go with one hand, general manager Rick Blangiardi,Įxtended to him his other and brought him over to team up with Liz Chun as the KGMB sports team. “My dad told me, ‘You know there is no money in that, you know I can get you into the shipyard.'”īut neither his father nor his vision of being the next Stan Lee ultimately decided his path: It was some courses on reporting at Cal State Northridge that took hold of Uyehara. Uyehara with wife Liz Chun, Kayla and Jace PHOTO COURTESY ARIA STUDIOS ![]() The ‘Sunrise’ crew (front, from left) Steve Uyehara, Grace Lee, Dan Cooke (back) Lacy Deniz, Billy V, Ramsay Wharton and Howard Dicus HAWAII NEWS NOW PHOTO
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