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It's WFAA8's 1991 noon news, featuring Quin Mathews, Scott Sams and Princess Leia(?)


Recent pictures of Quin Mathews, Lisa McRee and Scott Sams

By ED BARK
Return with us now to WFAA8's noon newscast, circa 1991, co-anchored by Quin Mathews and Lisa McRee, with Scott Sams at the weather maps.

Except that McRee seems to have channeled Princess Leia with a 'do that now looks like a don't but probably will be back in style by 2025.

Before checking the video, here's where they are now:

***Mathews, who also anchored at KDFW-TV (Ch. 4) and KDAF-TV (Ch. 33), formed Dallas-based Quin Mathews Films in the 1990s. He also is co-founder of WRR radio's (101.1 FM) "Arts Matters" series, which dates to 1988.

***McRee most recently hosted and reported for California Connected, which aired on the state's PBS radio stations from 2004-'07, when lack of funding ended the program. She also co-hosted ABC's Good Morning America from 1997-99 after Joan Lunden left.

***Sams of course is co-anchoring CBS11's early morning newscast with Ginger Allen. He joined the D-FW station in April 2007 after a sojurn at Sherman-Denison's KTEN-TV.

Here's the way they were 18 years ago at WFAA8: