Jeff Skov is known for his twenty years of service at KSFO, where he worked his way from a part-time role as an off-the-air traffic reporter to become news director.
Skov was born in San Francisco and, from the age of 8, raised in Marin County. He attended Stanford University for two years, serving as sports director at the campus radio station KZSU.
Leaving Stanford in 1962, Skov became sports director at KTIM in San Rafael. The following year, he was hired at KSFO. Between 1963 and 1974, he progressed from his off-air job to become an on-air field reporter, news anchor, and assistant news director.
In 1974, KSFO’s parent company Golden West Broadcasters named Skov its White House correspondent. In that role, he provided coverage for KSFO as well as Golden West stations KMPC (Los Angeles), KVI (Seattle) and KEX (Portland). As a member of the White House press corps, he traveled extensively throughout the U.S. and the world, covering the last six months of the Nixon presidency and the first year of the Ford administration.
Skov returned to San Francisco in 1975 to assume the role of news director at KSFO, a position he held until 1983.