Background
Lindsay is the son of Richard P. Lindsay and his wife, the former Marian Bangerter. He was born in San Francisco.
Lindsay is the son of Richard P. Lindsay and his wife, the former Marian Bangerter. He was born in San Francisco.
He has a degree in broadcasting from Brigham Young University and an Master of Business Administration from the University of Utah.
He was awarded an Emmy for his coverage of the 1980 Democratic National Convention. Lindsay is also the author of The Hometown Weekly: Good News Foreign a Change. Lindsay joined channel 5 as a reporter in 1978.
Within a year, he was promoted to co-anchor alongside Dick Nourse.
He was awarded an Emmy for his coverage of the 1980 Democratic National Convention. When Nourse retired in 2007, Lindsay became the station"s main anchorman.
In early 2010 KSL launched "Sunday Edition with Bruce Lindsay" which seeks to be an example of "civil dialogue over difficult issues"
Lindsay is married to the former Shari Anderson and they are the parents of six children. In early 2012, Lindsay announced that he would retire from KSL in the summer, after 34 years.
He served in that capacity until July 1, 2015.
Shortly before his retirement, KSL announced it would be hiring two male anchors (Mike Headrick and Dave McCann) in his place. When Lindsay retired, Sunday Edition was initially anchored by Richard Piatt. Piatt was later replaced by McCann, Headrick, and Nadine Wimmer who haven taken turns anchoring the program since then, even as it has experienced a name change.
The program is now called "Deseret News Sunday Edition".