Todd joined News 4 Utah as co-anchor of "ABC 4 News" at 10 p.m. She was first paired with veteran Salt Lake news anchor Randall Carlisle. In 2004, Terry Wood became Ruth's co-anchor at 10. From 1994 to 1996, Todd, Carlisle and Wood were all late-night competitors on different stations (On channels 5, 4 and 2, respectively). In 2001, Ruth and Wood both worked at KSL, with Wood co-anchoring with former KTVX anchor Kim Johnson. Todd and Wood later became primary anchors for KTVX, competing against former KSL colleagues, Nourse and Nadine Wimmer.