WFAA Says Goodbye to Retiring Sports Anchor
Last night, Dallas ABC affiliate WFAA gave the last ten minutes of its 10:00 p.m.newscast to saying goodbye to sports reporter, anchor and executive sports producer George Riba.
“He arrived in Dallas in the middle of the golden age for local TV news,” said Hansen “A one-man-band: reporter, photographer and editor — long before the term ‘multimedia journalist’ existed.”
The Fort Worth Star-Telegram put the tribute on its site.
Riba was working at KXAS/Channel 5 when Channel 8 lured him away in 1977, as revealed in the clip [watch below]. The tribute was followed by an in-studio farewell in which former Texas Rangers player-manager Toby Harrah gave Riba a parting gift: a framed, signed Rangers jersey with “Riba” and the number 37 on the back.
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