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Jeanne Cooper Emmy winner starred in 'The Young and the Restless' Jeanne Cooper, 84, the enduring soap opera star who played grande dame Katherine Chancellor for nearly four decades on CBS' "The Young and the Restless," died Wednesday in her sleep, according to the network. Cooper's son, actor Corbin Bernsen, said last month in Twitter messages that she had been suffering from an undisclosed illness. A Los Angeles resident, Cooper joined the daytime serial six months after its March 1973 debut, staking claim to the title of longest-tenured cast member.

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In a major shake-up at two local stations, Pat Harvey, one of the most prominent news anchors in Los Angeles and the most identifiable personality of KCAL's prime-time newscast, jumped Wednesday to the anchor desk at sister station KCBS. Harvey, who helped launch KCAL's prime-time newscast two decades ago, will now anchor the 5 p.m. and 11 p.m. newscasts with Paul Magers at KCBS. His former co-anchor Laura Diaz has moved to a solo anchor slot on KCBS' 6 p.m. newscast. KCBS weekend anchor Sharon Tay has succeeded Harvey as co-anchor of KCAL's 8 p.m. and 10 p.m. newscasts.

Customized TV Listings are available here: www.latimes.com/tvtimes Click here to download TV listings for the week of April 7 -13, 2013 in PDF format This week's TV Movies   SERIES The Middle Her schooling completed, Frankie (Patricia Heaton) begins interviewing for dental assistant jobs, but she has a hard time describing herself to potential employers in this new episode. 8 p.m. ABC Nature The new episode "Clash: Encounters of Bears and Wolves" shows what happens when the two great predators come face to face in Yellowstone National Park.

KCBS and Walker are right on the money. Why shouldn't Mayor Bradley answer all questions? His "Baloney! Baloney!" answers are baloney. TIM ELLIOTT North Hollywood

KCBS-TV reporter Serene Branson sparked some unexpected drama following the Grammy Awards when she slurred her words and appeared to speak gibberish during a live report. Branson was reporting outside the Staples Center at the top of the 11:30 p.m. broadcast and was appearently trying to talk about the hoopla during the award show when her words became unintelligible. Some startled viewers thought she may have suffered a stroke during the report. A KCBS spokesman released a statement that Branson was examined by paramedics on the scene immediately following the broadcast.

Former KABC-TV Channel 7 morning traffic reporter Vera Jimenez on Monday will join KCBS-TV Channel 2's 5-7 a.m. weekday newscast, launching the station's "time saver traffic" segments that will use technology locating gridlocked locations on major freeways and highways. Meanwhile, KCBS anchor Gretchen Carr, who has been off the air since December, is recuperating from foot surgery, and the station has not yet determined when she will return to work. -- Greg Braxton

Joseph Dyer, a retired KCBS-TV executive who was one of the first African American reporters hired by a major network television station in Los Angeles and later helped it set a standard for community involvement, died of heart failure Thursday at Good Samaritan Hospital in Los Angeles, said his daughter Monica. He was 76. The son of Louisiana sharecroppers, Dyer was hired by KNXT-TV (which later became KCBS) as a writer and news producer in 1965, a few months before the Watts riots erupted.

Tennis fans should boycott KCBS forever. In addition to showing the women's semifinals of the U.S. Open tennis tournament on a tape-delayed basis when the rest of the country was seeing it live, KCBS flashed a graphic on the screen at 5:01 p.m., when Hana Mandlikova was in the process of breaking Chris Evert Lloyd's serve at 2-3 in the sixth game of the third set, saying that the news would start at 5:18, thereby ruining the drama of the rest of...

The new management team at KCBS-TV Channel 2, in an apparent attempt to improve the station's sagging news ratings, is overhauling its newsroom roster and is set to hire former KNBC Channel 4 anchor Tritia Toyota. The changes, according to one KCBS employee who asked to remain anonymous, are in keeping with what the source termed the station's desire to feature "rock 'n' roll news."

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Customized TV Listings are available here: www.latimes.com/tvtimes Click here to download TV listings for the week of March 17 - 23, 2013 in PDF format This week's TV Movies   SERIES Arrow Jessica De Gouw reprises her role as the Huntress in this new episode of the superhero drama. 8 p.m. KTLA The Neighbors Reality TV's Bethenny Frankel guest stars in this new episode. 8:30 p.m. ABC Law & Order: Special Victims Unit Det. Cassidy (Dean Winters)

Customized TV Listings are available here: www.latimes.com/tvtimes Click here to download TV listings for the week of March 17 - 23, 2013 in PDF format This week's TV Movies     SERIES Splash Lakers legend Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, comic Louie Anderson, reality star Kendra Wilkinson are among the stars competing on this new celebrity diving competition. 8 p.m. ABC Pretty Little Liars The teen-themed drama ends another season, followed by a sneak peak at the pilot episode of the summer series "Twisted.

Seconds before Channel 2 News entertainment reporter Digby Diehl delivered a live report on the KCBS-TV 7 p.m. newscast Thursday, he hopped into the bushes in front of the Beverly Hilton Hotel in an attempt to dodge two striking news writers and their picket signs.