TV & VIDEO - Oct. 27, 1989

Veteran local TV executive Walt Baker checks out of KHJ-TV Channel 9 today after 22 years with the station. He has resigned as vice president and director of programming, citing creative differences with Channel 9’s new Disney management as the reason for his departure. As he clears out his desk, Baker says he is “most proud of all the shows we were able to do with very minimum resources . . . shows as silly as ‘Elvira’ to the public-affairs programs and documentaries that won a bunch of Emmys.” Baker, who joined Channel 9 in 1967 after working the three previous years at Channel 11, is also vice president of the Los Angeles branch of the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences.