KUTV Newswatch 2 at 10: Saturday, December 31st, 1977 and Sunday, January 1st, 1978, 10 P.M. news

Digitized version of an aircheck for the color broadcast of the evening news from December 31st, 1977 and January 1st, 1978, originally recorded on U-matic videocassette. Includes commercials. Broadcast headlines December 31st: Convicted kidnapper Ted Bundy escapes from the Garfield County Jail in Glenwood Springs, Colorado; Salt Lake City man in critical condition after shooting; Granger man shot three times while working on pipes under his kitchen sink; Charles R. Snelgrove, owner of Snelgrove Ice Cream, dies of old age; World and national news headlines; John Singer will go to trail for keeping his children home from school; Public Service Commission's upcoming rate structure hearing will determine if heat and lights are basic to survival; 10-year-old girl survives a plane crash at El Cajon Mountain in California; Utah Division of Wildlife Resources to begin public sleigh rides at Hardware Ranch; Weather report; National and local sports; Ted Bundy at large after escaping from the Garfield County Jail in Glenwood Springs, Colorado; 1977 headlines year in review Broadcast headlines January 1st: Air India 747 jumbo jet explodes mid-flight; President Carter's meeting with Jordanian King Huessein bin Talal; President Carter's trip to India regarding the country's return to democracy; The search for Ted Bundy continues following his escape from prison on December 31, 1977; Few leads and no suspects in 40 murders near Pittsburgh, PA; Fire kills three children in Green River, UT; Duplex apartment fire in Chelsea, Massachusetts kills three; Movie report with locals' reaction to Star Wars; reports on Pete's Dragon and Close Encounters of the Third Kind; First baby born in Utah in 1978; Weather report; Oil re-refining at Bonus Oil Refininary in Salt Lake City; National and local sports; Utah ski resorts set attendance records; 1978 New Year resolutions