By KEVIN WING | Archive & Museum Committee

Betty Ann Bruno, a staple on Bay Area television from the early 1970s to the mid 1990s, is now a best-selling author. Her new book, The Munchkin Diary: My Personal Yellow Brick Road, broke into the best-seller list in late March by notching first place in the non-fiction paperback category at Reader’s Books in Sonoma.

Bruno, best known as a veteran Emmy Award-winning general assignment reporter for KTVU Channel 2 from the early 1970s until her retirement in 1994, also hosted the station’s public affairs show as the ’70s decade began.

As a young child during the 1930s, Bruno successfully auditioned to be one of the Munchkins in the 1939 big-screen classic, The Wizard of Oz.

Bruno was naturally excited upon learning that her book, which debuted in January, has made the best seller’s list.

“I was so thrilled when I opened my email this morning and learned my book had made the Best Sellers’ list. It was like winning an Emmy when I worked at Channel 2.”

COMING SOON: Watch our website for a special feature profile on Bruno and her husband, veteran KTVU photographer Craig Scheiner, written by Media Museum of Northern California chair Kevin Wing, who also worked with Bruno and Scheiner at KTVU Channel 2,