Ron Hunter

Former New Orleans news anchor Ron Hunter, dies at 70

NEW ORLEANS - Former New Orleans news anchor Ron Hunter, who worked at TV and radio stations in several other major cities, died Tuesday in Las Vegas, his daughter said. He was 70.

Hunter's broadcasting career included stints in Miami, Philadelphia and Chicago, where he anchored alongside Jane Pauley and Maury Povich.

A native of Bogalusa, where his father had been mayor, Hunter started there in newspaper and radio work.
From 1967 to 1972, he helped establish CBS affiliate WWL-TV as New Orleans' dominant station. He returned to the city in the 1980s to work at WVUE-TV, the ABC affiliate, and host several radio talk shows.

Hunter's family founded the Bogalusa Enterprise, and he worked at the newspaper as a boy before turning to radio broadcasting, he told The Times-Picayune in 1990.