Jim Jensen, a News Anchor At WCBS-TV, Is Dead at 73Jim Jensen, a gravelly voiced and popular WCBS-TV news anchor and news reporter who was a major figure in New York television for years, died on Saturday at Lenox Hill Hospital. He was 73 and lived on the Upper East Side of Manhattan.
The cause was apparently a heart attack, said former colleagues of his at WCBS.
Mr. Jensen was with WCBS from 1964 to 1995. Accounts have differed as to why he left then, but it has been suggested that his contract was not renewed.
He was a news anchor for most of his years with WCBS. He lost his anchor job briefly in the 1980's but came back in that capacity in the 1990's. For some years during his tenure at WCBS-TV, it had the most-watched newscasts in the city.
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