In September of 1992, one of Houston's greatest television news anchors retired and all this week we'll take a look at classic Ron Stone and KPRC 2, no make that Big 2, videos.
This all thanks to Houstonian Josh Burdick who must have quite the VHS collection because he's been unloading clips to YouTube in a mass frenzy.
In fact, Burdick just recently posted Stone's last newscast which was way more tribute than news. The clip features co-anchor Linda Lorelle, weatherman and co-hort Doug Johnson, Craig Roberts and more.
You know who went on to replace Stone the next day? That's right, current channel 2 anchorman Bill Balleza.
But wait there's more, even Stone's competitors like KHOU 11's Steve Smith and KTRK abc13's Dave Ward make appearances on Stone's last newscast. And oh yeah, in the other clip, Tom Brokaw says goodbye to Stone.
Come back tomorrow for more!
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