KUTV Newswatch 2 at 6 and 10 pm: Thursday, October 19, 1978

Digitized version of an aircheck for the color broadcast of the evening news from October 19th, 1978, originally recorded on U-matic videocassette. Includes commercials. Broadcast headlines 6 PM: KUTV election telephone poll results; interview with Salt Lake County sheriff candidates Captain Pete Haward and Nick Morgan; Debate over the unification of Salt Lake City and unincorporated parts Salt Lake County; John Singer's newest wife, Shirley Black, ordered to surrender custody of her children to her estranged husband; Second suspect arrested in Idaho Falls, Idaho following a triple murder in Wyoming; Students and teachers upset with new opaque windows at Salt Lake City schools; Weather report; Local and national sports; Utah deer hunt opening weekend; Tour of Cottonwood Hospital's short-stay birthing center Broadcast headlines 10 PM: Three undercover agents disguised as reporters attempt to arrest John Singer; John Singer's newest wife, Shirley Black, ordered to surrender custody of her children to her estranged husband; Rocky Flats Nuclear Weapons Plant in Colorado ordered to begin mass production of plutonium components for neutron weapons; White House considers resuming productions of binary nerve gas warheads; KUTV election telephone poll results; interview with Salt Lake County sheriff candidates Captain Pete Haward and Nick Morgan; National Cancer Institute report shows a sharp increase in incidents of lung cancer among women; World and national news headlines; Oil industry report says that there is more oil and gas in Utah than in Prudhoe Bay, Alaska; Amoco's first oil well on the Great Salt Lake is complete; Weather report; Local and national sports; high school football regional title game, West High School vs. Olympus High School; Houston restaurant owner's son promised all Rockets fans free chicken