David Edward Walker (born 1941) is a retired American television news anchor. He and his wife

Lois Hart Lois Hackbert Hart Walker (born February 5, 1950, in Atlanta, Georgia) is a retired journalist. She co-anchored the evening news in Sacramento on KCRA-TV with her husband, Dave Walker, from 1990 through 2008. Lois first joined KCRA in the 1970s and ...

were paired as television news anchors for nearly three decades, starting in 1980 when they were among the original founding anchors on

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through 2008 on

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station

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Early life

Walker grew up in

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, graduating from

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in 1960 and the

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in 1964 with a bachelor's degree in sociology.https://www.classmates.com/people/Dave-Walker/8730205452

Career

Walker began his journalism career in the 1960s in

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with

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and

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. In the 1970s, he moved to Sacramento with

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and

. In 1980, Walker and co-anchor (and wife)

left Sacramento to join

in Atlanta, Georgia, and co-anchored CNN's first news broadcast. In 1989, he joined

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and anchored its first news program. In 1990, Walker and Hart decided to return to Sacramento, where they anchored evening news broadcasts until 2008. On November 26, 2008, Walker and Hart retired from KCRA.

References

1941 births Living people Television anchors from Sacramento, California University of South Florida alumni People from Tampa, Florida Date of birth missing (living people) {{US-journalist-1940s-stub