KNBC (1972–1979) Moyer was hired by
NBC News in March 1972 and returned to Los Angeles, joining KNBC as reporter and weekend anchor. The
KNBC Newservice, as it was known then, featured
Jess Marlow,
Tom Snyder,
Bob Abernethy, and
Tom Brokaw as the main nightly anchors and was the first serious competition in the local news ratings against
KNXT's ''The Big News/Eleven O'Clock Report'' with
Jerry Dunphy. Moyer soon moved to weeknights, first taking over the 11:00 p.m. newscast in July 1973 after Brokaw became NBC News' chief
White House correspondent. More than a year, in November 1974 Moyer became sole anchor of KNBC's 6:00 p.m. program with Snyder's reassignment to New York;
John Schubeck would replace Moyer on the 11:00 p.m. newscast. Aside from anchoring and reporting, Moyer also co-hosted KNBC's weekend features program
Sunday, working alongside longtime KNBC personality
Kelly Lange, who was a weathercaster with the station before being elevated to co-anchor on evenings with Moyer in 1976, when KNBC reformatted its news programs under the
NewsCenter 4 banner. KNBC, however, relieved Moyer of his anchor duties in the Spring of 1979 and Moyer departed the station shortly thereafter.
KABC-TV (1979–1992) In late 1979, Moyer moved over to rival
KABC-TV initially as a "senior correspondent" for
Eyewitness News. Soon, however, when the weekday operation expanded to three hours in the early evening in September 1980, Moyer was named co-anchor of the 5 p.m. hour with
Ann Martin. He soon replaced Dunphy (who had moved to KABC in 1975) on the 11 p.m. news after the latter was shot during a robbery attempt near the studio in 1983; the appointment would become permanent a year later. Moyer also co-anchored
Eyewitness News with
Tawny Little and
Terry Murphy. Moyer also had hosting stints on several of KABC-TV's local programs including
A.M. Los Angeles,
Eyewitness Los Angeles and
Eye on L.A. On April 30, 1992, he toured Los Angeles in a helicopter to observe damage from the
Los Angeles riots. Moyer was a visible face on the
ABC network in the mid-1980s, appearing as a correspondent on
Eye on Hollywood and substituting on
World News This Morning and
Good Morning America. He departed from KABC-TV in spring of 1992.
Return to KNBC In July 1992, after a highly publicized bidding war, Moyer returned to KNBC (on what was then the
Channel 4 News) to co-anchor with longtime
San Francisco anchorwoman-journalist
Wendy Tokuda. However, when ratings failed to surpass KABC's, Moyer was once again paired with Lange on the 11:00 p.m. news from 1993 to 1997 and with
Colleen Williams on the 5:00 p.m. and, in 1997, the 11:00 p.m. news; both Moyer and Lange received seven-figure salaries. According to a June 2007 article in
Los Angeles Magazine, Moyer's salary was rumored to be closer to $8 million. In May 2006, Moyer led an investigation on the rapidly increasing Chemtrail/Weather modification problem in Southern California. His four-minute report
Toxic Sky, produced for KNBC in Los Angeles, went viral on the Internet almost as soon as it was posted to their official website NBC4.TV (now nbclosangeles.com). On April 1, 2009, KNBC's
Colleen Williams announced, during the evening newscast, that Moyer had decided to retire after nearly 17 years at the station. Moyer's salary was estimated at more than $3 million a year of his time of retirement. In 1980 he was earning $250,000, and by 1993 it was cut to $1 million per annum.
Other media work Moyer appeared as himself on the TV show
The West Wing while doing an election-night stint for
MSNBC. ==Personal life==