The weather has changed and we're all relieved. We now have a grip on the wildfires in our state that have haunted and tormented us throughout this fiery summer. But the fires are still out there, aren't they? Here, and elsewhere, moving and changing and consuming and destroying. And breathing.
Eric Johnson
News Anchor
Eric was the Sports Director at KOMO for many years, but recently he became the anchor for the 5:00 news.
He was raised in Spokane (East Valley High School), and majored in broadcasting in the Edward R. Murrow School of Communications at Washington State University. He also played baseball at WSU (he says with very limited success).
In his 15 years at KOMO, Eric has been awarded more than 25 Regional Emmy Awards, and in 2007 was given the highest prize in local television news, a National Edward R. Murrow Award for best feature story in the country.
He has been in the middle of most of the major Seattle sports stories of the past decade and a half. He was there for the '95 Mariners, and the '96 Sonics, the Seahawks Super Bowl run, too many Apple Cups to count, and the Storm's championship season.
In 1993 he created a popular weekly feature called, "Eric's Little Heroes." Seattle laughed for years at kids running the wrong way, saying the wrong things, and proving every week what sports are truly about. And after being gone for a couple of years, "Eric's Little Heroes" has returned to KOMO 4.
Eric has a wife and two children; a boy and a girl. In his spare time he plays in an adult baseball league, works on his antique Ford, plays piano, and writes music.
He was raised in Spokane (East Valley High School), and majored in broadcasting in the Edward R. Murrow School of Communications at Washington State University. He also played baseball at WSU (he says with very limited success).
In his 15 years at KOMO, Eric has been awarded more than 25 Regional Emmy Awards, and in 2007 was given the highest prize in local television news, a National Edward R. Murrow Award for best feature story in the country.
He has been in the middle of most of the major Seattle sports stories of the past decade and a half. He was there for the '95 Mariners, and the '96 Sonics, the Seahawks Super Bowl run, too many Apple Cups to count, and the Storm's championship season.
In 1993 he created a popular weekly feature called, "Eric's Little Heroes." Seattle laughed for years at kids running the wrong way, saying the wrong things, and proving every week what sports are truly about. And after being gone for a couple of years, "Eric's Little Heroes" has returned to KOMO 4.
Eric has a wife and two children; a boy and a girl. In his spare time he plays in an adult baseball league, works on his antique Ford, plays piano, and writes music.
Recent stories by Eric Johnson
A volcano? It all seemed so exotic and far away to a high school senior in the Spokane Valley.
We pause to remember the two men who died when the Air 4 helicopter crashed upon take-off one year ago today.
By
Eric Johnson & KOMO Staff
Published: Feb 26, 2015 at 6:05 PM PDT
Last Updated: Feb 26, 2015 at 9:34 PM PDT
On the day that news broke that "Jihadi John", the man who has been seen be-heading hostages in videos released by ISIS, has been positively identified, KOMO News' Eric Johnson was at the White House for an interview with President Obama.
If I was running the show, I woulda given it to the Beautiful Beast and let him carry me on his back right into the Hall of Fame.
The 2014 Seattle Seahawks are the most exciting, entertaining, exhilarating team, the most adrenalin-inducing fantastically fun collection of humanity in the history of the National Football League.
Meet Hamoody Smith, a fearless, wildly ambitious 12-year-old boy.
The following is an awkward and painfully true Seahawk story from the 1988 football season. I've never told this story publicly, but I was thinking about it the other day and it's pretty hilarious
Game? That was no game. That was a metaphor for life. That was a time capsule to explain our obsession with this beautiful, barbaric sport to the next species that takes over when we're extinct.
Soak it up, Seattle. Wallow in it, Washington. Roll around in it and talk about it and love every minute of it, because... Because it wasn't always like this.
Times change. Technology changes. The whole world changes, and there's nothing anybody can do to stop it
Ken Schram, who worked here for 35 years as a reporter, commentator, host, and radio personality has died at 66.
Life is not an easy thing for a young man with cerebral palsy. But you'd never know it by looking at Dyami. His shell is compromised, you see, but his minds is intact and overflowing with wildly ambitious, fully conceived dreams.
Natasha Huestis lost her mother and her baby in the slide and is dealing with the unthinkable right now.
Over the years, we've met some extraordinary kids through the Little Heroes, and this week we're going to meet another one
John Zelnicker, very much a Southern Gentleman, opens the door of his home for his guest, Michele Savelle. She has traveled all the way from Seattle to Mobile, Alabama to see some letters, and to peer into the naked heart of her own father as a young, wild-eyed romantic.
I was at the Super Bowl in 2006, and the fans were great. It was a first for everybody. But this is something entirely different. There is a new look in the eyes of the Seahawk-faithful who've made the pilgrimage to the Promised Land.
The long suffering fans of Seattle have always been ranked among the most miserable in sports. That's going to change.
You think Colin Kaepernick is a pain in the pigskin? You shoulda seen John Elway running around in the 80's, like a crazy cornered cat on a hot tin Kingdome roof.
The miracle of the Panama Hotel is that the trunks and boxes of interned Japanese-Americans are still there today, stacked and piled around the basement, still waiting to be retrieved by their owners, who never returned after the war.