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Saturday, November 29, 2025
Friday, November 28, 2025
Liz Nagy joins ABC7 KABC Los Angeles
Liz Nagy joined ABC7 Los Angeles KABC in October 2025 from sister station ABC7 Chicago WLS, where she served as a general assignment reporter and contributed to the station’s investigative I-Team.
Like former ABC13 Houston reporter Kevin Ozebek, Nagy previously reported for KABC on loan during the Los Angeles wildfires, and now officially returns to Southern California as part of the station’s newsroom.
Nagy began her tenure at ABC7 Chicago in March 2016 as a per diem reporter and was promoted to staff general assignment reporter later that year.
Before joining WLS, Nagy spent several years at WSVN 7 in Miami, working as a nightside reporter and fill-in anchor.
She previously helped launch the weekend morning newscast Three In The Morning at WEAR ABC 3 in Pensacola, Florida.
Prior to that, she served as a weekend morning anchor and reporter at WVIR NBC29 in Charlottesville, Virginia.
A graduate of Elon University, Nagy began her career at WEIU-TV in Charleston, Illinois.
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Kelley Moody joins NBC Los Angeles
Kelley Moody joined NBC4 Los Angeles, KNBC, as a freelance meteorologist in September 2025.
Before arriving at NBC Los Angeles, Moody served as the weekend evening meteorologist for KESQ News Channel 3 in Palm Springs in 2021.
She previously worked as the morning meteorologist for KCCI 8 News in Des Moines.
Her history with KESQ dates back to 2016–2019, when she worked as a meteorologist, anchor, and reporter.
The Emmy winner also worked for NBC News as an assistant, associate producer, and intern for Dateline NBC.
An eighth-generation Californian, Kelley earned her Bachelor of Fine Arts in Television and Broadcast Journalism from Chapman University, with double minors in Peace Studies and Sociology. She also holds a Broadcast and Operational Meteorology Certification from Mississippi State University.
Simone Eli joins PIX11 New York City
Simone Eli is joining the WPIX New York City's PIX11 sports department from Nexstar Media Group sister station WKRG News 5 Mobile, Alabama.
Here is a portion of what Eli posted on social media:
"I am thrilled to share that I’m continuing my career in the nation’s #1 TV market — New York City!! I cannot wait to join the PIX11 Sports team as an evening anchor and co-host of New York Sports Nation Nightly!
I’m immeasurably grateful to the leadership in NYC and across Nexstar Media Group for this opportunity on the biggest stage in our business! It’s such a blessing to have the support of so many while stepping into this role. I cannot wait to get started with this awesome team!
Though this move is a once in a lifetime opportunity — it also comes comes with some bittersweet feelings. “The South” has been my home since 2013 — from Houston, to Birmingham and Mobile... I have loved every minute of my time here."
Eli has served as Sports Director at WKRG, anchoring nightly sportscasts and leading the station’s coverage of college, high school, and professional sports.
Before returning to Mobile, she spent five years as a sports anchor and reporter at CBS 42 in Birmingham. During her time in the Magic City, she co-hosted “College Football Saturday,” winning a Southeast Emmy for Best Live Sports Program in 2021. She also earned multiple AP and ABBY awards for her storytelling and comprehensive sports reporting. Her assignments have taken her nationwide, covering SEC football, the College Football Playoff, the Heisman Trophy ceremony, and the NCAA Basketball Tournament.
Eli previously spent two years at KPRC 2 Houston as a weekend sports anchor.
"I just want to thank the city for welcoming me - the last two years have really been a lot of fun and full of incredible opportunities," Eli told mikemcguff.com at the time.
She launched her full-time television career as Sports Director at Fox 10 WALA Mobile, Alabama, beginning her career as a TV analyst and reporter for the Buckeye Cable Sports Network in her home state of Ohio.
A graduate of Bowling Green State University, Eli played Division I basketball while earning both her bachelor’s degree in journalism and a master’s degree in sports administration. During her collegiate career, she helped lead the Falcons to three Mid-American Conference championships and two NCAA Tournament appearances. She is married to Bart Sessions, head football coach at Alma Bryant High School.
(Thanks Shad)
Thursday, November 27, 2025
Hunter Sowards joins CBS Los Angeles
Hunter Sowards joined CBS Los Angeles KCBS and KCAL Los Angeles as a reporter in the summer of 2025, after serving as an anchor and reporter at sister station CBS13 Sacramento KOVR.
An award-winning journalist, Sowards joined CBS13 in 2023 after several years anchoring and reporting for KUSI in San Diego.
Before heading west, she was the primary anchor at KTRE 9, the station she grew up watching in her hometown of Nacogdoches, Texas.
Sowards is a 2016 graduate of Stephen F. Austin State University, where she majored in radio and television broadcasting and earned placement on the Dean’s and President’s Lists. As part of her studies, she interned at KTRE and later at KLTV in Tyler.
Her storytelling has earned wide recognition, including multiple first-place awards from the San Diego Press Club, four Emmy nominations, and finalist honors in the 2023 San Diego Union-Tribune Readers Poll for “Best Local News Anchor” and “Best Television Personality.”
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Nic Garcia joins FOX 11 Los Angeles
Nic Garcia, an Emmy Award–winning journalist, joined FOX 11 Los Angeles KTTV as a reporter in the summer of 2025 after serving as a weekend anchor and reporter at ABC30 KFSN Fresno, California.
His reporting career has taken him across the West, with previous stops in Fresno, El Paso, and Western Montana.
Garcia is a graduate of California State University, Fullerton, where he earned a degree in Broadcast Journalism with a minor in Political Science. He is also an active member of the National Association of Hispanic Journalists (NAHJ).
He previously worked for:
ABC30 Fresno (KFSN) — Anchor/Reporter (September 2021–July 2025)
KFOX-TV El Paso — Breaking News Anchor (September 2019–September 2021)
NBC Montana — General Assignment Reporter (July 2018–August 2019)
KNBC Los Angeles — News Intern (January 2017–May 2017)
Titan Communications, CSU Fullerton — Anchor/Reporter (July 2016–May 2017)
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- Keenan Willard joins NBC Los Angeles
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- Liz Nagy joins ABC7 KABC Los Angeles
"Houston: Remember When" special
"Houston: Remember When" was a 1998 series produced by KUHT 8 that took a nostalgic journey through Houston’s past, with some famous television names hosting.
Wednesday, November 26, 2025
Brittany Costello joins WFAA
Brittany Costello joined WFAA 8 Dallas-Fort Worth as a reporter in July 2025.
Since I missed this big summer news, and tomorrow is Thanksgiving Day, I am the real turkey here! Those who cover this news days after me will be cranberry sauce then (although I admit I actually like cranberry sauce...I know, one of the few).
Costello joins WFAA from KOB 4 New Mexico, where she was an investigative reporter and had worked since May of 2016.
She started her TV career with Newschannel 6 KAUZ Wichita Falls, where she reported and anchored weekend evenings.
WFAA is a homecoming for Costello since she is from Fort Worth and graduated from the University of North Texas (UNT).
While at KOB, Emmy nominee Costello won the William S. Dixon First Amendment Freedom Award and the New Mexico Broadcasters Association Best Reporter award.
KPRC 2 Houston at-risk videotapes saved by TAMI
The Texas Archive of the Moving Image (TAMI) in Austin has completed a major preservation effort funded by a competitive grant from the Texas Historical Foundation (THF), safeguarding 200 at-risk videotapes from KPRC 2 Houston.
The project, awarded in 2024, focused on rescuing deteriorating tapes from KPRC’s extensive news and production library. TAMI announced that all 200 tapes have now been digitized, preserved, and made publicly available, delivering fresh access to key moments in Houston and Texas history.
"We believe the KPRC collection is one of the most complete archives of local news in the U.S., spanning 1961 to 2010," TAMI Managing Director Elizabeth Hansen told mikemcguff.com. "It lets viewers experience Houston—and Texas—history as it happened. Preserving it takes skilled technicians and catalogers, plus funding to maintain aging equipment and cover essential behind-the-scenes costs like servers, offsite backups, streaming infrastructure, and web hosting—keeping this invaluable resource safe, searchable, and accessible for all."
The newly digitized materials include coverage of Houston events, such as:
- Major weather events, including the impact of Hurricane Alicia (1983).
- Footage documenting the local impact of national issues, such as the Gulf Fishing Fight involving Vietnamese immigrants and local fishermen.
- Historic cultural debuts like the Menil Collection, the Wortham Theater Center, and Rendez-vous Houston.
- Key moments in Houston sports history, including the Astros' first NLCS appearance (1980).
- Iconic pop culture, featuring the star-studded premiere of Urban Cowboy.
While the completed project marks a significant step forward, TAMI says the scale of the preservation challenge remains enormous. The organization is working to digitize tens of thousands of KPRC films and videos, part of an archive that began accumulating roughly 700 hours of content per year in the late 1960s and continued at that pace for 40 years. That translates to an estimated 28,000 hours of footage requiring inventory, digitization, and cataloging.
TAMI estimates that Texas’s local TV stations collectively produced more than 3,000 years of content during the pre-digital era. For KPRC-TV alone, approximately 71,000 items remain undigitized — a multi-million-dollar undertaking that could take more than 4 decades to complete. While the film might last 40 years, the videotapes are estimated to have around one to two decades before they are unusable!
To help accelerate the work, TAMI is launching a GivingTuesday fundraising push on December 2, aiming to raise $3,000 for its next round of digitization. An anonymous donor has pledged to match all contributions, doubling the impact of each gift.
TAMI says community support is critical to ensuring that thousands of hours of Texas history don’t remain trapped on aging, fragile tape.
Last year, I covered a TAMI event held at the Midtown Arts & Theater Center, Houston (MATCH), called "Tonight at 7" Houston Television From The Archive, featuring TAMI's extensive KPRC 2 and KHOU 11 collections.
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