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David Edward Walker was an award-winning television news anchor at KCRA 3 in Sacramento.
Walker first worked at WESH-TV in Orlando, Florida, before moving to Sacramento in the 1970s with
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and KCRA. In 1980, Walker and co-anchor (and wife)
Lois HartLois Hackbert Hart Walker is a retired journalist. She co-anchored the evening news in Sacramento on KCRA-TV with her husband, Dave Walker, from 1990 through 2008....
left Sacramento to join
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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. They currently reside along Garden Highway, north of downtown Sacramento.