Gary Kerr Returns To Moderate Senate Debate

Longtime WOWT anchor Gary Kerr makes a brief return to local television news Saturday when he hosts the Nebraska Republican Senate political debate on KXVO (Cox Channel 11) at 9 p.m.

The debate was taped Thursday at the Omaha Press Club during a sold-out luncheon. Candidates David Kramer and Pete Ricketts accepted the invitation to debate. A third candidate, Don Stenberg, chose not to participate.

Stenberg said he would debate only if all three signed a pledge that, among other things, the candidates will not “make any reference to each other in paid television, radio, print, direct mail or other advertising.” Ricketts and Kramer said they could not sign a pledge with those words.

Kerr, seen in the photo above with former CBS news anchor Walter Cronkite (right) and WOWT co-anchor Byron Wood (left), is a member of the OPC Education Committee and worked at WOWT for 34 years.

The debate was one of the Noon Education Forums that are held monthly at the Press Club on subjects of interest to members and the public.

Special thanks to Todd Clark and Judy Horan for contributing to this article.