Following Jorgensen's retirement from the station in 1983, and Bosh's departure in 1984, her co-anchors would include Brad Holbrook and former CBS News reporter/anchor Morton Dean.
During her run with WPIX, the station took home two Emmy Awards for outstanding local news coverage, in 1979 and again in 1983.
In 1985, Harper left WPIX for WNBC-TV, where she replaced John Hambrick as Chuck Scarborough's co-anchor on the 6 p.m. edition of News 4 New York.
In her years with channel 4, the station won five consecutive Emmy Awards for best local newscast.
[2][3] After Harper's run on WNBC ended in 1991, she retired from the news business and moved to Capileira, Spain.