Longtime KMPH Voice Kopi Sotiropulos to Retire March 27, 2026

Kopi Sotiropulos, a longtime Central Valley broadcast voice at KMPH, announced on Feb. 19, 2026 that he will retire effective March 27, 2026 after more than five decades with the station. The retirement date marks the conclusion of a run that station records and community references place at over 50 years in Fresno County broadcasting.

Sotiropulos has been identified in local coverage as a local TV veteran who spent more than three decades as a leading on-air weather presence for KMPH, serving viewers across Fresno County and the broader Central Valley. His association with KMPH spans multiple eras of television technology and newsroom shifts, with viewers and colleagues recognizing the length of his tenure in regional broadcasting circles.

The announcement on Feb. 19 came amid a broadcasting calendar that will include Sotiropulos’s final on-air weeks before his March 27 departure from KMPH. Those closing weeks will culminate a career that local audience metrics and station histories show extended across more than five decades at the same Fresno County outlet, a rarity in modern local television.

KMPH viewers in Fresno County and the Central Valley will see Sotiropulos step away from the station at the end of March 2026, closing a chapter in the station’s local presence that sources characterize as deeply rooted in community broadcasting. The March 27, 2026 retirement date is definitive; it ends a continuous association with KMPH that began more than 50 years ago and that included over 30 years in a prominent on-air weather role.

Sotiropulos’s departure on March 27, 2026 leaves KMPH facing a transition in a prominent on-air slot long occupied by a voice familiar to Fresno County households. The announcement on Feb. 19 sets a clear timeline for that transition and for viewers who have followed Sotiropulos’s work across the Central Valley to mark the end of his tenure at the station.