A wave of TV newsroom cuts at CBS-owned stations that began yesterday made it to the West Coast on Tuesday — with KCBS/KCAL anchors Harold Greene and Ann Martin among the most visible depatures.

Inland Empire correspondent Greg Phillips, who grew up in Rialto and Riverside, is among the reporters who were let go.

The station has made no formal announcement of the cutbacks, but KFWB and KNX are reporting that Greene and Martin will “retire” next month. Neither appeared on Tuesday’s 4 p.m. broadcast on KCAL-Channel 9; the pair were also the anchors of the 6 p.m. news on KCBS-Channel 2

Phillips, whose last story in the IE was Friday night’s piece on street racing, and reporters Jaime Garza, Jennifer Sabih and Jennifer Davis no longer have bios on the stations’ web site.

Off camera, producers Matt Kallinger and Kerry Brace were also let go.

On Monday, CBS made cuts at most of its other owned-and-operated stations, including New York, Chicago, San Francisco and Boston.

– posted at 4:38 p.m. by Cathy Maestri

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Tuesday, April 1, 2008

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