Wendall Anschutz (January 21, 1938 – January 7, 2010) was a television journalist for

KCTV KCTV (channel 5) is a television station in Kansas City, Missouri, United States, affiliated with CBS. It is owned by Gray Television alongside MyNetworkTV affiliate KSMO-TV (channel 62). Both stations share studios on Shawnee Mission Parkway ...

in Kansas City, Missouri, from 1966 until he retired in 2001. Anschutz was born in

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, and he was a first cousin to billionaire Philip Anschutz. He received a bachelor's degree in speech and drama and later a master's degree, both from the

University of Kansas The University of Kansas (KU) is a public research university with its main campus in Lawrence, Kansas, United States, and several satellite campuses, research and educational centers, medical centers, and classes across the state of Kansas. T ...

. After serving years as an operations officer aboard the , he began working as a reporter for KCTV in 1966. In 1979, he began anchoring KCTV's evening newscast with Anne Peterson, and they were the dominant newscast team until 1994.

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