Robert C. "Bob" Losure (May 4, 1947 – July 19, 2019) was a weekend

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on ''

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'' from 1986 to 1997. Earlier in his career he worked as co-anchor of the evening news at KOTV, the

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affiliate in his hometown of

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and before that as a reporter for Tulsa's AM radio station KRMG. Earlier on, he was one of the ''20/20 News'' anchors during the "Big 8" years at

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radio in

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. He was also a reporter for

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, a service supplying news reports to local television stations, a field in which he had begun his career. After leaving CNN, he wrote a biography, ''Five Seconds to Air'' and made promotional speeches. He appeared in the Magic Jack infomercial and in a commercial promoting the conservative

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magazine as well as in corporate videos. He was a member of the

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