KUTV Newswatch 2 at 6 and 10: Thursday, February 1, 1979, 6 P.M. and 10 P.M. news

Digitized version of an aircheck for the color broadcast of the evening news from February 1st, 1979, originally recorded on U-matic videocassette. Includes commercials. Broadcast headlines 6 PM: Fire at the Brigadoon Apartments in Washington Terrace, UT kills one-year-old boy; Utah Division of Parks and Recreation hopes to purchase Antelope Island by exercising eminent domain; Some Utah legislators want to eliminate the appropriation to purchase Antelope Island; A Tooele Army Depot security guard is in jail after being charged with attempting to steal one ton of military high explosives; Three children injured in a car-train accident in Salt Lake City; Prosecution's reaction to the acquittal of suspected religious assassin Eddie Marston; Religious leader Ervil LeBaron's break with the Church of the First Born; Utah Transit Authority workers vote on a second contract proposal; maintenance staff may split to form a new union; Weather report; Local and national sports; University of Utah basketball coach Jerry Pimm considers a move to the University of Southern California; East High School wrestling team; Talk of flying saucers at James Wardle's barber shop in Salt Lake City Broadcast headlines 10 PM: The cause of a fire that killed a one-year-old boy at the Brigadoon Apartments in Washington Terrace, UT is unknown; A three-year-old boy is in critical condition after a car-train accident in Salt Lake City; A Tooele Army Depot security guard is in jail after being charged with attempting to steal one ton of military high explosives; World and national news headlines; Some Utah Legislators want to eliminate the state funding appropriation to purchase Antelope Island from the Antelope Island Cattle Company; Rumors of prospective buyers for the U & I Sugar Company; Delta, UT farmers agree to sell a percentage of their Sevier River water rights to the Intermountain Power Project; Developers and residents of Emigration Canyon meet before the Salt Lake City Commission to discuss the annexation plan; Opponents of Avenues Neighborhood downzoning file a suit alleging that Salt Lake City Commissioners made the decision behind closed doors; Utah Transit Authority workers vote down a second contract proposal; Weather report; Local and national sports; University of Utah basketball coach Jerry Pimm considers a move to the University of Southern California; Wirth Watching: University of Utah disco dance class