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Scott D. Pierce: Marvelous Mary Dickson is retiring from KUED, but at least she’ll still host ‘Contact’

In the TV business, if you spend five years at a station, that’s considered a long time. Mary Dickson has been at KUED-Channel 7 a lot longer than that.

She doesn’t want me to tell you how long, but I’ve been writing about TV in Utah for almost 29 years, and Mary was already at KUED when I began.

But after, um, a long time at the station, she’s retiring as director of community relations, a job that out her in charge of promotions, publicity, advertising, a monthly program guide and community outreach.

In a way, Dickson has been the face of KUED, the public television station on the campus of the University of Utah.