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[John T Roberts]

Channel 5, KXAS turns 75.  Bud Kennedy has a story in the Fort Worth Star-Telegram about the stations history.  If you can read it, the link is below:

 

https://www.star-tel...cal-news-digest

 

[johnfwd]

I always liked The Texas News report and, of course, weather by Harold Taft.

[Stadtplan]

I always liked The Texas News report and, of course, weather by Harold Taft.

Side story: my friends liquidated Harold Tafts estate a few years ago and I attended the sale, was way over off Meadowbrook Dr. I guess maybe his kids or her kids? held into it after his wife passed in 2004 and he died in 1991 which was so long ago. Theres was a cool old Mercedes and a Jaguar for sale and my friend Norman who was running the sale locked himself in one of the cars and started to panic due to the heat and it was a sport coupe so very difficult for a gentleman to crawl over the console. The house was in disrepair but not horrible just needed some work. I recall hearing about him playing the cornet in TV, for sure at church. I recall seeing lots of baseball cards.

Another interesting estate sale story, an older lady not too far from us passed away and her kids liquidated everything and she also worked at Channel 5 and had amassed a huge collection of LPs like an entire wall in her very cool MCM home with flat roof.

https://en.m.wikiped...iki/Harold_Taft

[John T Roberts]

I grew up watching Harold Taft on the news.