Sunday, June 8, 2025 84° Today's Paper Features Looking Back Diversity in TV newscasts made major strides in ’70s Sept. 13, 2015 ...

Laubert and Dick Wood anchored the 6 and 11 p.m. newscasts during the 1960s and 1970s. Near the end of his tenure at NBC 10, Wood was part of the anchor team on “ Extra Effort News," the area ...

Celebrity and lifestyle stories, which in June made up 25% of the evening newscasts, have largely vanished. Business and science news held largely steady, dropping to 16% of the newscasts, from 18%.

Newscasts at 6 and 11 p.m. have been staples at WJAR since the early days. But we experimented with a few different evening time periods, starting in the 1980s.