Wendy Gordon, who was an anchor at KOIN 6 in the 1970s, died December 22, 2020 at the age of 71. (KOIN file, undated) ...

For quite a while on WJAR-TV, the people reading the 6 o'clock news were announcers. Broadcast journalists replaced news announcers on the anchor desk on WJAR-TV in the 1970s.