KUTV Newswatch 2 at 6: Tuesday, January 2, 1979, 6 P.M. news

Digitized version of an aircheck for the color broadcast of the evening news from January 2nd, 1979, originally recorded on U-matic videocassette. Includes commercials. Broadcast headlines: The cause of fire in an apartment building that killed two in the Avenues Neighborhood in Salt Lake City is unknown; Salt Lake City Mayor Ted Wilson proposes an emergency program for fire inspection and an ordnance requiring licensing and regulation of apartment buildings; The Red Cross reports that the fire in the Valley Apartments building left 35 people homeless; Charges filed against the man accused of starting the Swing Apartment building fire; Natural gas pipeline erupts in Salt Lake City; World and national news headlines; Salt Lake City Mayor Ted Wilson announces that he will not seek reelection; Pete Hayward assumes the role of Salt Lake County Sheriff and sets new departmental priorities; Below zero temperatures cause frozen pipes and water main breaks across the Salt Lake Valley; Weather report; Local and national sports; world record setting fish caught by Ray Johnson in Flaming Gorge; Pilot Merle Herris says he survived a plane crash on Lewiston Peak because he didn't panic