Stephanie Simmons is signing off from her anchor chair at KHOU 11 to launch a brand-new newscast at TEGNA’s San Diego station, CBS News 8 KFMB.
Here is what Simmons posted on social media:
I’ve been holding onto this news for a while now and I’m excited to finally share I’ll be staying with our company as I transfer to our sister station in San Diego to anchor a brand-new evening show! It’s not goodbye quite yet Houston.
Longtime readers of this blog will recognize a familiar face at KFMB — veteran anchor Carlo Cecchetto, who has become a fixture at the station. Another San Diego TV news fact: Rekha Muddaraj joined KHOU from KFMB.
Simmons arrived in Houston in late 2018, joining KHOU from KCBS 2 Los Angeles, where she spent six years as a morning traffic anchor and reporter. She initially started at KHOU in the traffic role before moving to the morning anchor desk.
Clearly, Simmons can handle a lot of pressure. She had to hold down the KHOU morning anchor desk through a lot of transitions! From rotating co-anchors to newscast format changes, the old KHOU management threw a lot at Simmons.
In 2025, following the arrival of Ilona Carson as the station’s new morning anchor, Simmons transitioned to leading the noon newscast.
Before her Los Angeles tenure, Simmons hosted Hollywood Dailies on ReelzChannel, co-hosted Great Day St. Louis on KMOV in St. Louis, and reported for both WRTV and WTHR in Indianapolis.
A Ball State University graduate with a degree in telecommunications, Simmons also once cheered on the Indianapolis Colts as a member of the team’s cheerleading squad.
