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What ever happen to a very popular Phx news co- anchor Mary jo ----? sorry forgot her last name. She co hosted the news at 10 on then CBS 10. I remember her telecasts from mid 80s into the nineties. After she left the news gig, she did a few 30 or 60 minute specials. Sorry wish I rememered more.
 
You must be thinking of Mary Jo West. Here is her bio from the Tempe Chamber of Commerce web site:

"Mary Jo West is one of Arizona’s best known TV personalities and was the first woman to anchor a newscast in Phoenix. She has won two Emmys and the Peabody Award."

She is now the communications director of Arizona First Things First.
 
After the KOOL-TV stint circa 1976-82, West "went network"--to anchor
CBS News Nightwatch (2-6 AM ET) from New York. Probably just to get
away from Bill Close. <grin>

Back in Phoenix a year or two later to anchor news on KTVK channel 3.
 
I spent the summer of 83 here in Phoenix. I remember Newswatch 10PM with Bill Close and a female co-anchor. I believe that Joe Dougherty did the weather. I had been told previously that the co-anchor must have been Mary Jo West? According to your schedule, oldiesfan, it would have been someone else. Who would it have been?
 
formeraa said:
I spent the summer of 83 here in Phoenix. I remember Newswatch 10PM with Bill Close and a female co-anchor. I believe that Joe Dougherty did the weather. I had been told previously that the co-anchor must have been Mary Jo West? According to your schedule, oldiesfan, it would have been someone else. Who would it have been?
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Probably Claren Scott (last seen on Cox's Channel 1, explaining your digital features).

---Michael Hagerty
 
formeraa said:
Thanks, Michael! BTW, I enjoy watching your traffic reports!
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I'd love to see you do live traffic reports from one of the cars you are testing. Now THAT would be really KOOL KMLE uh, neat. ;D
 
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