KUTV Newswatch 2 at 6 and 10: Monday, January 8, 1979, 6 and 10 P.M. news

Digitized version of an aircheck for the color broadcast of the evening news from January 8th, 1979, originally recorded on U-matic videocassette. Includes commercials. Broadcast headlines 6 PM: Governor Scott Matheson releases a previously secret federal study showing that leukemia deaths in Utah's Washington and Iron counties were twice what they should have been; Report on Governor Scott Matheson's annual State of the State Address ahead of the 1979 Utah State Legislative Session; Salt Lake City building inspectors begin their work to survey fire safety code violations in apartment buildingss; New Salt Lake County Commissioner Bob Salter's radio talk show; Auerbach's department store closes in downtown Salt Lake City; Troubleshooter: man who uses a wheelchair gets a new shower in his mobile home; Weather report; Local and national sports; Highland High School basketball team Broadcast headlines 10 PM: Federal study from 1965 shows that government officials knew the cancer rates in Southern Utah were unusually high and that it could be linked to atomic bomb testing; Governor Scott Matheson and Stuart Udall hold a press conference regarding the 1965 federal study on cancer rates in Southern Utah; Report on Governor Scott Matheson's annual State of the State Address ahead of the 1979 Utah State Legislative Session; Utah Legislators kick-off the 1979 Legislative Session at the newly remodeled Capitol Theatre; Idaho state police find a stolen truck that was involved in a crime spree in Northern Utah; Salt Lake City building inspectors begin their work to survey fire safety code violations in apartment buildings; World and national news headlines; Southeast Asian refugee community lives and works in Fillmore, UT; Weather report; Archaeological excavation project underway to restore the Social Hall building in Salt Lake City; Local and national sports; Wirth Watching: cross-country skiing terminology