Richard Bruce Lindsay (born 1950) was the most senior male anchor for weeknight broadcasts of the news on
KSL TV in
Salt Lake City
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,
Utah
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from 2007 until his retirement in May 2012. He was awarded an
Emmy for his coverage of the 1980
Democratic National Convention. Lindsay retired from his position with KSL to serve as a
mission president
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for
the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
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(LDS Church) in
Australia.
Biography
Lindsay is the son of
Richard P. Lindsay and his wife, the former Marian Bangerter. He was born in
San Francisco
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. At about the age of 20, he served as a missionary for the LDS Church in
French Polynesia. He has a degree in broadcasting from
Brigham Young University
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and an MBA from the
University of Utah
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. Lindsay is also the author of ''The Hometown Weekly: Good News For a Change''.
Lindsay joined KSL as a reporter in 1978 from
KABC-TV
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in
Los Angeles
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. Within a year, he was promoted to co-anchor alongside
Dick Nourse
Dick Nourse is a retired Salt Lake City, Utah television news anchor. He most recently worked for KSL 5 Television. Nourse joined the KSL news team in 1964 as the station's weekend anchor/reporter. Six months later, he was named the station's we ...
. He was awarded an
Emmy for his coverage of the 1980
Democratic National Convention. When Nourse retired in 2007, Lindsay became the station's senior anchorman.
In early 2010 KSL launched ''Sunday Edition with Bruce Lindsay'', which seeks to be an example of "civil dialogue over difficult issues"
''Mormon Times''
March 13, 2010.
Lindsay is married to the former Shari Anderson and they are the parents of six children. He has served in multiple callings in the LDS Church, including bishop
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In Christianity, bishops are normally responsible for the governance of dioceses. The role or office of bishop is c ...
and counselor in a stake presidency.
In early 2012, Lindsay announced that he would retire from KSL in the summer, after 34 years. It was later announced by the LDS Church that, at the beginning of July, Lindsay would begin service as president
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of the church's Australia Perth
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Mission. He served in that capacity until July 1, 2015. Shortly before his retirement, KSL announced it would be hiring two male anchors (Mike Headrick and Dave McCann) in his place.[''KSL TV Welcomes 2 New Anchors'']
'' Deseret News''.
When Lindsay retired, ''Sunday Edition'' was initially anchored by Richard Piatt. Piatt was later replaced by McCann, Headrick, and Nadine Wimmer who took turns anchoring the program, (with Doug Wright later being brought on to host). The name of the program was later changed to ''Deseret News Sunday Edition'' .
Notes
References
*Kevin Stoker
"He learned service as others served"
''Church News
The ''Church News'' (or ''LDS Church News'') is a weekly tabloid-sized supplement to the ''Deseret News'' and the ''MormonTimes'', a Salt Lake City, Utah newspaper owned by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church). It is t ...
'', June 17, 1989. (Article about father Richard P. Lindsay, who served as a general authority.) Retrieved 9 May 2014.
"Bruce Lindsay"
KSL bio.
a slightly different bio from KSL
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People from Salt Lake City
Brigham Young University alumni
University of Utah alumni
American leaders of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Living people
1950 births
Latter Day Saints from California
Latter Day Saints from Utah