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| "My co-host gave me this apron that says "I'd rather be 40 than pregnant". I was eight months pregnant at the time, and I wore it." |
GS: How do you juggle family?
JY: I'm not saying it's easy or that I have all the answers. I don't have all the answers. I do the best job I know how. I try to be the best mother I know how.
GS: How old are your children?
JY: 12, 10 and 6.
GS: What does your husband do?
JY: He's a businessman.
GS: Do you have household help?
JY: I've been lucky enough to have help for my children
GS: What's their reaction to seeing their mother on TV?
JY: I was on TV before they were born. They've just grown up with their mom working on TV. It's not a big deal. I don't make it a big deal. It's just a part of our lives. Half the time they don't even know when I'm on or if I'm on. To them I'm just their mom.
GS: Do you work five days a week?
JY: Sometimes more.
GS: How many hours a week?
JY: Sixty hours. Just because we go home, doesn't mean we've quit working. I read every single day of the week, every paper, every magazine. I've got to keep up with what's happening in the news, what's happening in the entertainment field, people I'm going to interview. I subscribe to a lot of magazines and do my homework at home.
GS: You're orignally from Hawaii?
JY: I didn't leave Hawaii until I was almost 20. My family is still in Hawaii--and all 85 relatives!
GS: Are both your parents Japanese Americans?
JY: Yes.
GS: And your husband?
JY: He's German and Irish.
GS: Have you ever experienced any difficulties because you're an Asian woman?
JY: No. That's who we are. I happen to be proud that I'm Asian, I'm female, I'm a mother of three and I'm 47.
GS: You look so much younger.
JY: I've never hidden my age. On my 40th birthday I was pregnant. On Evening Magazine my co-host gave me this apron that says "I'd rather be 40 than pregnant". I was eight months pregnant at the time, and I wore it.
KRON anchor Emerald Yeh is one of the Bay Area's best-known faces.
THE EARLYBIRD: EMERALD YEH
Emerald Yeh has been anchoring and reporting at San Francisco's KRON since leaving CNN in September 1984. Today she co-anchors Midday and NewsCenter 4 at Noon while providing consumer reports for the 5 and 6 o'clock broadcasts as KRON's Contact 4 Consumer Reporter. Yeh was born in Princeton, New Jersey and lived in Hong Kong, Tokyo and Macao before her family settled in Honolulu. She started in television journalism while still attending the University of Hawaii.
GS: How long have you been in this business?
EY: I've been at KRON for 10 years. I've been in the business 17 years.
GS: How did you get into it?
EY: I was working on the University of Hawaii paper and majoring in journalism. I signed up for a TV internship program. It was a curiosity thing more than anything else. I was curious about what goes on in putting a newscast on the air but had absolutely no interest or plans to pursue television news myself. One thing led to another and I ended up doing it.
GS: Were you paid?
EY: I was just getting college credits.
GS: Which station did you start working for?
EY: KITV, the ABC station in Honolulu.
GS: What price did to pay to get started?
EY: Long hours, working seven days a week.
GS: How many hours a day.
EY: If there are projects, I've been in at eight o clock and not out until one or two in the morning. Those are extreme days.
GS: Do you think that's a necessary part of moving ahead in that business?
EY: I really do. If you want to get ahead in this business, you have to put in a 110%. A lot of the time you put in is because you're learning on the job and you want to pick up skills as you go. Picking up skills means taking on extra projects or taking extra time to make sure your project turns out the way you want. PAGE 9
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