Our coverage of the Deputy shootings early this year was powerful and thorough. We came together as a team that night and led the way on a story that had tremendous impact on our community. I've been incredibly proud of our efforts during breaking news, in particular the coverage of the shooting at the Walmart in Thornton. That topic wasn't a ratings builder, but it was important and the right thing for our stations to do. There's great satisfaction in doing powerful stories and a half-hour special on the Opioid crisis that continues to grip our communities. I've loved working in this building and with this staff.
The original commitment was for a couple of years and what a couple of years it has been. KWGN 7 weeks from now, I'll be leaving KWGN/KDVR. The transition took place after Channel 2 and its sister station, Fox31, were purchased from their longtime owner, Tribune Media, by Sinclair Broadcasting, an ultra-conservative company with a history of forcing highly ideological material on stations in its portfolio. In July 2017, about a year after Landess took the Denver gig, Gauntt made a move of her own, becoming the news director at, of all places, Denver7. We have a very intense personal bond" - so much so that Landess spoke at the funeral of Gauntt's mother. We worked together through the 2000 election and 9/11, which we covered like it was a local news story - because for us, it was. "She was an intern at KUSA when I was there, and she was the assistant news director at WTTG in Washington, D.C. Instrumental in making that happen was then-Channel 2 news director Holly Gauntt, a colleague of Landess's at multiple stops along his career path. So we did the betwixt-and-between thing for a while - but then we figured out a way to get back here." We sold our house in Washington Park for an obscene amount of money - because all of the house prices in Washington Park are obscene - and took that money and bought a condo in Fort Collins, since my wife's two grown daughters and five grandchildren are up there. But in 2016, when he was hired at Channel 2, he told us that "I always had one toe in Colorado. When Landess returned to Tyler, he figured on staying there for a while. File photo In 2014, Landess left Denver7 in what was characterized at the time as his retirement - but shortly thereafter, he took an anchor position at KYTX in Tyler, a job he already had in his pocket when he departed Denver, he subsequently acknowledged.
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