Trason Bragg has been announced as the new KHOU 11 Houston noon anchor multiple sources confirm to mikemcguff.com, so get your resumes ready, as his weekend morning position is likely open.
We now have the puzzle pieces assembled to understand the aftermath of the tectonic shift made at Channel 11 after Shern-Min Chow's retirement!
With Bragg taking Chow's midday anchoring chair, that completes the full picture, since we learned that Brheanna Boudreaux was returning to Houston and taking the legendary anchor's 4pm role.
This means that Cheryl Mercedes, who has been doing great weekday fill-in work, is returning to weekend evenings.
And I should take the time to acknowledge that Marcelino Benito hasn't co-anchored with Mercedes in like a year. So this proves to my readers who think I know everything that I really do live up to the "dunderpate" branding in my own blog header since I missed this one. See, I'm just good at faking competence at times. That's how I made it 15 years in the TV biz. Fake it until you sorta make it.
He is busy racking up journalism awards for his reporting. While I was on the blog break, Benito won for best reporter at the Texas Broadcast News Awards. Congrats.
Bragg joined KHOU as weekend morning anchor in 2024, taking over for Lauren Talarico. He came from Dallas-Fort Worth, where he worked for the CBS Local News Innovation Lab based at CBS News Texas KTVT.
Do you think when World Cup fans lifted Bragg recently, that they were really celebrating his upcoming promotion?
