Patti Reising is a Bay Area native best-known for her thirty years at KCBS. A 1983 graduate of Cal Poly-San Luis Obispo, she began her radio career in the newsroom at Paso Robles stations KPRL and KDDB. She first came to the Bay Area in the late 1980s as part of the news team at K-101.
While at K-101, Reising was anchoring the 5 p.m. newscast when the Loma Prieta earthquake struck on October 17th, 1989. She maintained coverage during some trying hours, including the use of the station manager’s car battery to allow the team to stay on the air and broadcast throughout the night after the quake caused them to lose power.
She left K-101 for a three year stint at CBS all-news radio station KNX in Los Angeles, where she covered the infamous OJ Simpson slow-speed chase, earning her the 1995 Associated Press “Reporter of the Year” award.
Later in 1995, she got the call from KCBS, joining the news team first as a reporter, then fill-in anchor and, a year later full-time anchor of the afternoon news Before her 2025 retirement, Reising shared the anchor booth with Mike Pulsipher, then Jeff Bell and finally Bret Burkhart. Reising was part of the team that won the Edward R. Murrow “Best Newscast” Award in 2019.