View Post FOX Affiliates | ShopTalk Former Phoenix Anchor Bill Close Dies at 91 By Merrill Knox on Jan. 29, 2013 - 12:02 PM Bill Close, a longtime anchor at KSAZ (then KOOL) in Phoenix, died Sunday at 91. Close, who KSAZ calls “the Walter Cronkite of Phoenix,” was best known for an on-air incident in 1982 when a gunman entered the KOOL stud ...