When Holt was elevated to the job in 2015, he was the first African-American solo anchor of a weekday network nightly newscast. While broadcast TV audiences have declined in recent years ...

Roughly four years later, in 1969, he returned to WTOP as its first African American news anchor, serving until 1978. Following his time at WTOP, he moved to Chicago and was a co-anchor for ABC ...

Ellis joined WBIR Channel 10 in 1982, where she first covered the World's Fair in a program called "Welcome World." She stayed on as an anchor.