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ARTICLES RELATED TO KIRO-TV - KIRO Alumni |  |  |  | KIRO-TV - KIRO Alumni: Encyclopedia II - KIRO-TV - HistoryChannel 7 was to be the last VHF TV channel allocation in the Puget Sound area, and its license was hotly contested. In the end, it went to Saul Haas, owner of KIRO-AM, and the station signed on as KIRO-TV in 1958. It became a CBS affiliate, and competed heavily against KTNT, another CBS affiliate licensed to Tacoma. KIRO eventually won out, becoming the sole CBS affiliate for the Puget Sound area in the early 1960s.
However, throughout the late 1960s and early 1970s, KIRO still faced competition in some Western Washington households ...
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 |  |  | KIRO-TV - KIRO Alumni: Encyclopedia II - KIRO-TV - NewscastsBeginning in 1969, KIRO initiated major upgrades of its news programming, implementing the now-commonplace "Eyewitness News" format with chief correspondent Cliff Kirk, sportscaster Ron Forsell, and assistant anchor Sandy Hill, who later left KIRO to become the first co-host of Good Morning America. Throughout the decades, KIRO placed a high emphasis on news programming and investigative stories. During the late 1970s and early 1980s, the Eyewitness News team of anchors John Marler and Gary Justice, meteorologist Harry Wappler and porcine sportscaster Wayne Cody challenged ...
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