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Longtime consumer journalist David Horowitz passed away at age 81, his wife told NBC4.

Horowitz was best known for his Emmy-winning TV program "Fight Back! With David Horowitz" that investigated defective products, advertised claims and confronted companies with customer complaints. The show debuted on KNBC under the name "California Byline," and Horowitz was a celebrated member of the NBC team for two decades.

In 1987, Horowitz was on KNBC's 4 p.m. newscast when a man with what appeared to be a gun took the journalist hostage live on the air. Horowitz remained calm and read the gunman's statements on camera, but the station had cut the broadcast without the gunman becoming aware of that fact.

The gun turned out to be a toy B.B. gun, and Horowitz then took on the campaign to ban toy guns that look like real guns.

I used to watch his show every weekend as a kid. I haven't seen it in 30 years but still remember the theme song like it was yesterday.

Very sad :(

Used to watch it in the '80s. Had, I believe, two different themes.

I saw some episodes of Fight Back on Youtube and it's a shame you don't see consumer news shows on TV anymore because Fight Back was more than just a show it taught you all about the newest and best innoventions in products before you bought them. David Horowitz was truly an expert on finding good products and knew what really made the product a huge seller. I do remember the theme song to Fight Back and it was so cool and I saw an animated intro of Fight Back from 1989 that was neat. If a new version of Fight Back would be made it would be a hit today. Or maybe Consumer Reports could develop their own TV show similar to Fight Back and it would work wonders. I am a fan of Consumer Reports and always read it from time to time to learn about the best products and by seeing Fight Back episodes it helped me learn more about products a lot more
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