Reporter Hands Reigns to Son at Salt Lake City’s KUTV

By Andrew Gauthier 

The Salt Lake Tribune

Bill Gephardt is retiring from KUTV-Channel 2. But the popular “Get Gephardt” reports will continue.

Matt Gephardt, currently his father’s producer, will be his successor. He’s already appearing on 6 p.m. newscasts; he’ll join his father at 10 p.m. in the transition period leading up to Bill Gephardt’s Nov. 24 finale.

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“Television has been fabulous to me,” Bill Gephardt, 58, told The Salt Lake Tribune . “I just feel like Im ready to go. I’m fine financially. I’ll find something else to do. I don’t know what, but I’ll find it.” More…

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