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Good list, thanks. Others you can find on Wikipedia. notes on this list KTRK: Had a good young anchior Tim Ryan who went to Chicago early 80's Don't think Dan Rather ever worked at KTRK Jan Carson came back to Houston not late 80's but in 1983 replacing Paula Zahn who was dropped after one contract KPRC: Notable anchor/reporters not on this list: Terry Anzur and Anna Bond mid-80's then both faded away but Anzur has a website. Tim Lake late 80's went to Philadelphia and is still working as anchor there. Dan O'Rourke 80-95 runs media company in Houston and freelances for networks. Larry Audas 85-90's went to Little Rock now in station management. Listed as KPRC reporters: Velma Cato worked the assignment desk and sometimes produced shows. Mauri Moore was a special assignments producer/show producer. Larry Weidman was the news director who succeeded Ray Miller in 1979. If any of these three was ever on air it wasnt often enough to be called a reporter. Craig Roberts sports 1980-2004 still in Houston was working at the Tube 55 and other jobs. KHOU: Shern-Minh Chow who scores the rare trifecta of working several years each at 11, 13 and 2 in a single long career.

oThanks for the question. This is my assessment from observing the no-frills staff Mr Connor continues to assemble, and from his previous brand of serious-minded news in Charlotte NC, including a Peabody award and a Dupont award. This kind of record especially in second or third tier markets doesn't normally come out of nowhere, but from a news director who actually directs the team around him, with a sound knowledge of how the on-air results will be respected by the public and viewed by colleagues/competition judges in other places. This is no reflection on the previous ND, as I have no knowledge of how Mr Walton may have joined the staff under him. Mr Devlin may have had no hand at all in hirng him, so I can't speculate. But there is a trend of GM's assuming a role in hiring fringe personalities such as this. For example the Buzz lady on KPRC is actually tied to the sales department, though she isn't branded that way.

Bob has a commercial real estate license and as recently as about a year ago was living in the West U area not far from Channel 13.

Timing of it sounds like his contract was not renewed. The news director who has a pretty developed sense of what good "reporting " is, probably inherited Walton's contract and has spent the time with no intention of signing another with him.

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