KUTV Newswatch 2 at 6 and 10: Tuesday, March 6, 1979, 6 P.M. and 10 P.M. news

Digitized version of an aircheck for the color broadcast of the evening news from March 6th, 1979, originally recorded on U-matic videocassette. Includes commercials. Broadcast headlines 6 PM: Utah Congressman Gunn McKay says there will be a full-scale investigation concerning the possible harmful effects of chemicals used at Hill Air Force Base; Customers crowd into a Public Service Commission hearing to protest Utah Power and Light Company's rate increase proposal; Four followers of polygamist cult leader Ervil LeBaron on trial for the 1977 murder of Rulon Allred; Juvenile shot by Salt Lake County detective is in fair condition; The Amalgamated Transit Union files a suit challenging a Utah law that prohibits transit workers from striking; Utah House of Representatives fails to pass an amendment to constitutionally limit state and local spending; Hansen Siamese twins readmitted to the University of Utah Medical Center ahead of another surgery; Weather report; Layton City Council passes a special dispensation that allows children under 18-years-old to play pinball only when school is not in session; Manslaughter charge refiled against Sweetwater County Deputy in Rock Springs, WY; Rock Springs, WY Mayor Paul Wataha is admitted to the hospital; Heber City swears in new Police Chief John Lawrence; Local and national sports; Utah state 4A high school basketball tournament; Mother and son from Farmington, NM die of asphyxiation in front of a cafe in Bountiful, UT; Castleton's department store in Salt Lake City reopens after nineteen employees fell ill after breathing in a mystery gas Broadcast headlines 10 PM: Fire destroys an unoccupied apartment building in Park City, UT; B.B. Smith, President of Kennecott Copper Corporation's Metal Mining Division, dies in Salt Lake City; Utah Congressman Gunn McKay says there will be a full-scale investigation concerning the possible harmful effects of chemicals used at Hill Air Force Base; Four followers of polygamist cult leader Ervil LeBaron on trial for the 1977 murder of Rulon Allred; The Amalgamated Transit Union files a suit challenging a Utah law that prohibits transit workers from striking; World and national news headlines; Utah House of Representatives fails to pass an amendment to constitutionally limit state and local spending; Weather report; Local and national sports; ticket scalping ahead of the NCAA finals in Salt Lake City, UT; Hansen Siamese twins readmitted to the University of Utah Medical Center ahead of another surgery; Birthday party for separated McCall Siamese twins in New York