KUTV Newswatch 2 at 6 and 10: Wednesday, January 24, 1979, 6 and 10 P.M. news

Digitized version of an aircheck for the color broadcast of the evening news from January 24th, 1979, originally recorded on U-matic videocassette. Includes commercials. Broadcast headlines 6 PM: Salt Lake City's Office of Equal Employment Opportunity files a report alleging that the police department's machine records unit discriminates against women; Special prosecutor for the Wyoming state grand jury takes the stand in the trial of former Public Safety Director Ed Cantrell in Rock Springs, WY; Convicted rapist missing from a prison halfway house is the prime suspect in the rape and abduction of a Salt Lake City teenager; The Wyoming Senate takes on the federal government's speed limit of 55 miles per hour; Utah State Legislature might challenge the federal government's speed limit; A new Utah bill is designed to resolve land annexations to ease tension between cities and counties; Osmond family will perform for the Vice Premier of China in Washington, DC; Weather report; Local and national sports; professional downhill racing at Snowbird Ski Resort; Troubleshooter: man's family heirloom recovered Broadcast headlines 10 PM: Six Utah men named in a new suit filed in Las Vegas, NV that alleges former Summa Corporation officers and aids beguiled Howard Hughes out of fifty million dollars; Special prosecutor for the Wyoming state grand jury takes the stand in the trial of former Public Safety Director Ed Cantrell in Rock Springs, WY; Wyoming Senate takes on the federal government's speed limit of 55 miles per hour; World and national news headlines; New Utah bill is designed to resolve land annexations to ease tension between cities and counties; Salt Lake City's Office of Equal Employment Opportunity files a report alleging that the police department's machine records unit discriminates against women; Weather report; Local and national sports; Wirth Watching: University of Utah computer science department's computer art