[3] He appeared in a number of television series in the late 1950s and early 1960s, including the syndicated western, Pony Express.

Ivers was disappointed that his acting career stalled by the middle 1960s, and he told the Yakima Herald-Republic in 1978 that he would have enjoyed the excitement of the Hollywood scene and often contemplated what might have been.

[4] In 1965, he launched a career in television news at KPHO in Phoenix, Arizona, followed by WJIM in Lansing, Michigan, and then (in 1970) KTHI-TV in Fargo, North Dakota.

After moving to his home state of Washington in 1972, he became a mainstay of KAPP in Yakima, Washington, where he anchored newscasts and hosted a Saturday morning children's program, the weekday Morning Moneyman Movie, and the station's annual participation in the Jerry Lewis MDA Telethon.

He then began his own advertising agency in Yakima and hosted a small syndicated radio show in central Washington which provided factual trivia about films and actors along with reviews.