Early Television Career
Bruner began his career in television as "Wally the Weatherman" with WTHI-TV in Terre Haute, Indiana in the mid-1950s and continued with a variety of roles in small-market stations around the country. He also built and operated Radio Station WKZI in Casey, IL with his first wife, Patricia. He also was News Director of KTVK-TV, the then ABC affiliate in Phoenix, Arizona where he worked with his Assistant News Director and cinematographer, Stanley Rocklin. He then landed a job as Capitol Hill Correspondent for ABC News and he moved to Washington, D.C.. As a news correspondent, he covered the US Congress and the White House throughout the 1960s; was nominated for an EMMY for his coverage of the war in Santo Domingo; and went to Viet Nam to cover the war. Upon his return from Viet Nam, he helped organize the AFTRA strike (which divided the news team of Huntley & Brinkley)to force the networks to treat war correspondents more fairly. Following his time with ABC, he served as coanchor with Alan Smith of the nightly news for Washington, D.C., television station WTTG, Channel 5, with Maury Povich (sports).
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