Dennis Bounds is a former weeknight

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for KING-TV, a

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. Dennis started with KING-TV in March 1991 and accepted a retirement buy-out by Tegna, formerly Gannett, in April 2016. He will no longer be seen on KING-TV, after 25 years with the station He lives in Redmond, Washington. Bounds graduated from the

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in 1974. He received a BA in sociology. He is married, and his three children attend public schools in the Seattle area.

News Anchor career

On December 14, 1994, Bounds was promoted from the morning/noon newscasts to the weeknights evening news, a role he has held since then. In April 2016, Bounds took a voluntary retirement offer, along with long-time co-anchor Jean Enersen, former chief meteorologist

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, and reporter Linda Byron.

References

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