Former WIS (Columbia, SC) Anchor Ed Carter is one of the 60,000+ people that have died after being infected with COVID-19.

Well-known and loved as a local news anchor through the 1980s and ‘90s, Carter died Tuesday morning.

Friends of Carter say he had been in declining health for several years and that he became infected with the highly contagious coronavirus, in the past month.

He’s remembered as a gentleman, a role model and the portrait of a professional newsman. “He was one of the leading people in television,” said Joe Daggett, who worked as a sports anchor alongside Carter from the early-’80s to the mid-’90s.

Carter and co-anchor Susan Audé were fixtures as Columbia’s leading news team at a time when WIS dominated the local TV market and was one of the leading NBC affiliates in the country.

Ed Carter was 81-years-old.

H/T The State