Yeah, The Baltimore Sun reported that on 9-19-95 WJZ named Vic Carter as Al Sanders' replacement. A later Sun article reports that Carter, 37, started his 'JZ duties on 1-2-96. Quoting the article, "Beginning at 6 and 11 tonight, he'll be seen in umpteen thousand Baltimore-area homes every evening. And he's taking the place of a local legend. No one has to be reminded how much the late Al Sanders meant to WJZ and to Baltimore. Together with co-anchor Jerry Turner, who died in 1987, he crafted an evening newscast that dominated local news, never being really challenged until last year. But more than an on-air personality, Al Sanders was a man people trusted, a role model for everyone. When he died last May, many Baltimoreans grieved as though they had lost a close friend. Which means Vic Carter is going to have to fill some pretty big shoes. How's he going to do it? Obviously, he knew that question was coming. And just as obviously, he knew there was only one way to answer it. "I'm not really replacing Al Sanders, I'm succeeding him," he says simply. "There can never be a replacement for Al Sanders.” Marcellus Alexander agrees. As WJZ's general manager, he's the man who hired Mr. Carter. The idea, he insists, was not to go out and find a replacement. Rather, the idea was to find someone who fit in with the Eyewitness News team, someone who could share the anchor duties with Denise Koch, Sanders' longtime partner. "When we began the search for someone to co-anchor with Denise, we never looked for a replacement for Al Sanders, because none exists," Mr. Alexander says. "He was truly one of a kind. "If anyone has taken Al's place, and she hasn't, it would be Denise. She moved into the seat he occupied some months ago. But it's real important to realize I'm not expecting her to be Al either." Ms. Koch met with Mr. Carter during the interview process. She told him how much Al Sanders meant to Baltimore, and how viewers would inevitably compare the new with the old. "I was as blunt with him as I could possibly be," she says. "I told him there was no way he was not going to be in some way affected by that. People in this city are extremely generous, extremely gracious, but for a while people are going to say to him, 'Gosh, we really miss Al.' " Such comparisons will not faze her new partner, Ms. Koch predicts. "I think he understands how important Al was. I think if that would have been a problem with him, he wouldn't have come."