Dan Green, KSBW
238 John St., Salinas
(831) 758-8888, www.ksbw.com
It’s hard to compete with the likes of Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert these days, when TV news has become most popular for how easy it is to parody. So KSBW viewers are lucky to have in Dan Green, and co-anchor Erin Clark, a self-awareness that makes their newscasting more relatable, relevant and at times pretty wry. KSBW reporters are tough and persistent; they’ve dogged the King City police department for answers during the unraveling corruption allegations, and have followed Salinas City Councilman Jose Castañeda far and wide. Amid the breaking news, Green does a feature called “Animal Stories,” where he covers adorable things like pandas.