News reporter Kmetko's first job was in Rhinelander, Wisconsin. He was watching the local news team while visiting some friends there on vacation. He called the station and insisted he could do a better job. "They sat me down in front of a camera and told me to read." A week later, the station hired him.
Entertainment reporter In 1982, Kmetko was hired as a general-assignment reporter by
CBS-owned-and-operated station KNXT (now
KCBS-TV) in Los Angeles, later moving to a four-day-a-week schedule as entertainment reporter for
Channel 2 News. Kmetko said he greatly enjoyed entertainment reporting. "Fortunately for me, entertainers do not remain in Los Angeles. They film movies and attend film festivals around the world. I have had the opportunity to travel to some wonderful places." He "interviewed everyone who was anyone in Hollywood". Kmetko also anchored the
E! Entertainment Report, which was fed daily to NBC affiliates nationally.
Later career Kmetko hosted the National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association's Excellence in Journalism Awards on October 4, 2005, at the Mark Taper Forum in Los Angeles. In 2006, Kmetko was hired as the anchor, producer, and writer of
Q Television Network World News. In May 2007, Kmetko was hired as a general-assignment reporter for
Fox 11 News on
Fox-owned-and-operated station
KTTV in Los Angeles. Kmetko has served as producer and reporter of several video segments on California's gay-marriage ruling for theadvocate.com, the website of the gay news magazine
The Advocate.
Podcasting Kmetko currently hosts the podcast
Still Here Hollywood. ==Personal life==