7News anchor Mike Landess has decided that 50 years in broadcasting is enough for one lifetime. Some time in late summer, Landess will hang up his earpiece, according to a story posted on the 7News website.
“We’ve been talking about it for a couple of years and hitting that 50-year mark seemed like an appropriate time to do it,” Landess said.
According to the 7News story, “(Landess) began his broadcast career while he was a high school senior in Tyler, Texas. Four years later he was reporting and anchoring at WFAA in Dallas. His first primary evening anchor job was for NBC News at its owned-and-operated WKYC in Cleveland. In 1977, Mike arrived in Denver and anchored along-side Ed Sardella at KUSA for the next 16 years. (Landess) went on to anchor at WXIA in Atlanta during the Summer Olympics and then to WTTG in Washington D.C. where he covered the 9/11 attacks.
He returned to Denver and 7News in 2002 where he has worked as primary anchor of evening newscasts since.
Landess has been honored with more than two dozen Emmy Awards — including five for Best Anchor. He has earned five Edward R. Murrow Awards and contributed to the winning of a Peabody Award in 2013 for Wildfire Coverage. Landess was inducted into the Heartland Chapter of National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences Silver Circle in 2008.
The anchorman shared his story of battling prostate cancer from diagnosis though treatment and into recovery with viewers.
“I felt so helpless, so I told my story as a way of coping,” Landess said. “The University of Colorado Hospital saved my life. We put those stories on DVD and hundreds of copies have been sent free of charge to cancer patients around the world.”
See the rest of the story at www.thedenverchannel.com/about/7news-anchor-mike-landess-announces-his-retirement-from-the-anchor-desk.
7News anchor Mike Landess will be retiring later this summer. (7News photo)
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