Ed Arnold is the co-host and managing editor of KOCE-TV's nightly news magazine show, "Real Orange", and the announcer for Dr. Robert H. Schuller's internationally syndicated "Hour of Power". He joined KOCE-TV in January 2000 after over thirty years as a sportscaster/anchor in Los Angeles. He has been with the "Hour of Power' since it began in 1970.

Ed who was recently honored with the 2007 "Lifetime Achievement Award" presented by the Radio and Television News Association of Southern California is an Emmy and Golden Mike award winner. He began his broadcasting career at the age of 14 in his hometown of Texarkana, Arkansas.

The Marine Corps veteran, a former Garden Grove resident, is a graduate of Santa Ana College and Long Beach State.

Ed is extremely involved in his community and serves on a number of board's. He just retired from the March of Dimes after thirty-five years on the board of directors. Ed is a forty year volunteer of his local Boys and Girls Clubs and is chairman of the Huntington Beach-Fountain Valley clubs largest annual fundraiser. In 1968 Arnold was a founding board member of the California Special Olympics and still plays an active role in the organization's events. In 1975, he was selected as one of California's Five Outstanding Young Men (FOYC). Ed was the 46th President of the California Jaycees, served seven terms as president of the Orange County Multiple Sclerosis Society, five terms as president of the Southern California Cystic Fibrosis Foundation, two terms as president of the Southern California Sportscasters Association and was the charter president of the Fountain Valley Rotary Club.

Among the many honors Arnold has received are the "Lifetime Achievement Award" from the March of Dimes, the "Breath of Life" from Cystic Fibrosis and the "2001 Visionary of the Year" award from Coastline Community College. Other tribunes include West Coast Father of the Year, the Foundation Valley "Distinguished Service Award" and the "Distinguished Citizen Award" from the Orange County Sports Hall of Fame. Second Harvest Food Bank has named their Humanitarian of the Year Award in Ed's name and Santa Ana College has honored Ed by adding his name to the annual SAC golf tournament.

Five times the Southern California Sports Broadcasters Association named the KTLA sports team of Ed and Stu Nahan as the "Best Television Sports Anchor staff". Ed and his wife, Dixie, were honored with the "Americana Award" as Orange County's "Man and Woman of the year" in 2003.

Ed and his wife, Dr. Dixie Arnold, Chair of the Liberal Studies Department at Vanguard University, make their home in Fountain Valley. Their son, Dean, daughter-in-law, Rachel, and grandsons, Jacob and Luke, also reside in Fountain Valley.

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