SALT LAKE CITY — For the last seven months, former KSL-TV news anchor Keith McCord has felt like a human pin cushion. Each week, he needed to get rid of a bag of blood.

After the spring of ’65, he joined KSL TV, teaming up with veteran news anchors Dick Nourse and Bob Welti for the first of 24 years — what is believed to be the longest tenured trio in ...

Nourse joined the KSL 5 news team in 1964, picking up the weekday anchor gig in just six months. The friendly face finalized his career in 2007, after 43 years with KSL.

KSL television began broadcasting on June 1, 1949, and the TV titan has been plugged in ever since. The Deseret News, which owned KSL in the early days, even commemorated the event 76 years ago ...