Peoria TV news: Former local anchorman Brian Christie dies
A former Peoria-area television-news anchorman died earlier this week. Brian Christie was residing in San Diego when he died Sunday, according to a Facebook post from friend and former co-worker Greg Todd. The FTVLive website also reported Christie's death. Christie long had been ill with non-alcoholic liver disease. On a San Diego news website, he chronicled his diagnosis and outlook. From 1985 until 2001, Christie was a primary news anchor for CNN and subsidiary channels. Before that, in the early-to-mid-1980s, he shared an anchor desk with Clark Smith at what then was known as WRAU-TV (19)...
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