[1] He was sent to Tehran, Iran, by ABC to cover the takeover of the United States embassy and the ensuing Iran hostage crisis following the Iranian Revolution in 1979.
[1] During his career at CBS and ABC, Dyk also reported in the death of Winston Churchill, the Lebanon Civil War and riots in Los Angeles.
[1] Dyk left network television in 1984 and was a fill-in reporter for ABC-owned KGO-TV in San Francisco.
[2] He then worked for KRBK-TV in Sacramento, California, as an anchor and reporter from 1986 to 1987.
[5][1] Dyk died of cancer at the age of 71 on March 22, 2008, at his home in Falmouth, Maine.