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Wednesday, December 01, 2010

KTRK 13 reporter Gene Apodaca calls it quits

The news hit the Houston TV community last week right before Thanksgiving. KTRK 13 reporter Gene Apodaca reportedly quit the ABC station.

I contacted Apodaca the day it happened but he said he wasn't allowed to give a comment to the mikemcguff.com blog.

Tuesday of this week, I'm told his photo and bio were taken down from the Channel 13 website.

According to KTRK, Apodaca came to work for the Houston station in October 2004. Prior to KTRK, Apodaca worked as a reporter in Miami. Before that he did stints at WPTV in West Palm Beach, KIII in Corpus Christi and KOSA in Midland/Odessa. He's one of those guys who is not from Texas, but apparently got here as soon as he could.

Keep checking back on this blog to see what Apodaca is up to next.

(Photo courtesy of UTDB)

Saturday, June 09, 2018

Former KTRK abc13 reporter Gene Apodaca has apparently died


Sad news to report from social media. Former KTRK abc13 reporter Gene Apodaca has apparently died according to posts from his friends and family.



Comments on his Facebook page say the funeral is today in Albuquerque, NM.

The last post Apodaca made on both Twitter and Facebook was "Buenas noches Facebook" on May 16th.

That is all I know at this time. There are no official reports of his death in the media at the time of this writing.

UPATE
Crossroads Today reports that the 45-year-old died of a heart attack. A former channel 13 colleague of Apodaca's also told me the same cause of death.

He most recently was working as a reporter and anchor for NY1 News in New York City. After Houston, he also worked in Santa Fe TV.

Apodaca left KTRK and Houston in 2010 after working there as a reporter for six years.

Before channel 13, he worked in Miami, WPTV West Palm Beach, KIII Corpus Christi and KOSA Midland/Odessa.




Tuesday, December 07, 2010

KTVT's Miller married, WOAI's 'Rosebud' retires, KTRK 13 staffers documentary and more

CBS 11 KTVT sportscaster Gina Miller's wedding announcement in the New York Times
Gina Miller, 36, will continue to use her name professionally. She is a sports anchor at the Dallas television stations KTVT and KTXA, which are owned by CBS. She graduated cum laude from the University of Houston.

"106.9 The Zone" KHPT Houston gets new leader from Miami
Kevin Vargas heads to Houston as PD of Cox Media Group Classic Alternative KHPT (106.9 The Zone). He comes in from the same post at Active Rock sister WHDR (93 Rock)/Miami.

After 38 years, reporter at WOAI radio retires
One of San Antonio's talk radio’s most distinctive voices has hung up his mike after 38 years on WOAI. Bud “Rosebud” Little, whose vintage, deep-throated delivery always recalled a radio era gone by, retired last week at age 72.

Texas Watchdog Offices Broken Into: Begin The Paranoia?
​Texas Watchdog, the website that does a lot of digging into the spending of governments and politicians, was burglarized over the weekend.

KTRK 13 editor Alex Luster talks about upcoming documentary
Director Alex Luster talks Stick 'Em Up.
- KTRK 13 gets a PR!MO editor in Fox 26 KRIV's Alex Luster
- VIDEO: Houston documentary Stick ‘Em Up!'s latest trailer

Al-Jazeera: KPFT Puts Them On The Houston Airwaves
KPFT staffers have been informed that an English-language Al-Jazeera segment will be part of the news lineup.

Waning Support for College Radio Sets Off a Debate
Like many college radio stations across the country, Rice University’s KTRU and Vanderbilt University’s WRVU play a broad swath of music — from undiscovered indie bands and obscure blues acts to ’60s garage rock and ’80s postpunk.

All eyes on David Nuno
"Cool" is back in sports talk and credit David Nuno of 1560 The Game with the return of "cool" to the sports talk airwaves.

Becca Cason Thrash: Star Of CultureMap, Which Doesn't Mention She's Married To An Owner Of It
In many ways, a recent post was a typical CultureMap item: headlined "Becca Cason Thrash, Scott McClelland, Gina Gaston (KTRK 13) & more share their living lean strategies," it was a hard(ly)-hitting look at the holiday diet tips of Houston's wealthy social types.

Former charter KDAF-TV news director Anthony Maisel finds new news home in Texoma
Anthony Maisel, who launched Dallas-based KDAF-TV's (Ch. 33) inaugural prime-time newscast in 1998, has been named the first full-time news director at CBS/Fox's Texoma area station, KXII-TV.

Fran Harris is ‘GMA’ finalist
Former University of Texas basketball star Fran Harris is a finalist to become the Dear “GMA” Advice Guru on ABC’s “Good Morning America.”

NBC Local Media to Target Twitter Tastemakers
'20' most influential tweeters in each market to help shape local content.

Ben Oldag - RIP
Dr. Ben Oldag, a long time, very familiar voice on Houston radio, has passed. He will be most familiar from his long-time work on KTRH on garden and farm programs but he started his career on KFRD in Rosenberg and worked also on Armed Forces Radio.

KTRH's "Most Influential Houstonian Of 2010": KTRH's Michael Berry
By far the most influential Houstonian this year has been Michael Berry, talk-show host on KTRH. At least according to a listener poll of KTRH listeners.

Oprah Winfrey Channel Gears Up for Its Debut
OWN: The Oprah Winfrey Network, the cable channel from Ms. Winfrey and Discovery Communications, nearly three years in the making, is only one month away from its debut.

ESPN Says Study Shows Little Effort to Cut Cable
Seeking to understand the cutting of cable cords, ESPN has waded into the Nielsen Company’s audience sample and concluded that the cancellations are currently a “very minor” phenomenon.

IN CASE YOU MISSED IT
- KPRC 2 alum gets CBS Early Show host gig
- KTRK 13 reporter Gene Apodaca calls it quits
- New KXAS 5 anchor promo spots
- News 8 Austin’s news director Kevin Benz is gone
- KIAH 39 news management change, KHOU 11 gets new executive producer
- Houston TV and newspaper websites profiled
- Houston Chronicle hypertext: What's up with the linked article text on chron.com?

Thursday, July 05, 2018

Texas #TVnews and radio job moves June 2018


[I am on a blog break right now, but there will be posts coming while I am away. Keep checking back for new posts!]


NPPA winners.

DALLAS - FORT WORTH

Kaley O'Kelley heading back to Phoenix

Reporter Ashley Paredez joining Fox4's Good Day

WTHR sports anchor Jason Spells leaving Indianapolis for Dallas

HOUSTON

ESPN 97.5 & SportsMap 94.1 Houston Consolidate Lineups

Sports talk radio host Adam Clanton to return to 610 AM as fill-in host

Sean Salisbury joining SportsTalk 790 KBME

Houston Chronicle's Vernon Loeb tapped as politics editor at The Atlantic

KSBJ/Houston Names Drew Wilson APD

KSBJ Educational Foundation Welcomes Joe Paulo as New President, General Manager

- Kevin Quinn leaves KTRK 13, joins Harris County Precinct 1
- KHOU 11's Melissa Correa opens up about her mental health
- Director of social media production
- Jake Reiner leaving KPRC 2
- Darby Douglas exits KHOU 11
- 2018 Lone Star Awards announced by Houston Press Club
- Colorado Securities Commissioner Gerald Rome
- KPRC's Sara Donchey is expecting
- KLOL would get ratted out by the Houston Chronicle in the 1970s
- Thanks to KPRC 2 for covering my mom's Alzheimer's story
- Jennifer Reyna is not leaving KPRC 2; has a new Facebook page
- KPRC 'Houston Life' changes coming
- Charly Edsitty joins abc13 KTRK

SAN ANTONIO

Veteran morning anchor Leslie Bohl announces departure from News 4 San Antonio

Ashlei King moves to KLRT Little Rock as the morning anchor WOAI-KABB

Former KENS Anchor Sarah Lucero Focuses on Fitness After News

AROUND TEXAS

KIII Corpus Christi ND Oscar E. Garcia has apparently left

Anchor Seth Kovar leaves KXXV 25 Waco-Temple-Killeen

Eddie Flores is back in the anchoring game: he joins KMID-TV in Midland as Primary Anchor.
- Flores is represented by Steve Swienckowski at DCA Talent.

Makenzi Henderson joins 3News KIII Corpus Christi

REMEMBERING

Former KTRK abc13 reporter Gene Apodaca has died


Friday, April 01, 2016

Texas TV & radio job moves March 2016



DALLAS - FORT WORTH

NBC5 reporter Ellen Bryan is latest to leave D-FW TV news scene.

NBC 5 KXAS nighttime weekend anchor Amanda Guerra leaving the station

WFAA 8 tabs Alisha Laventure as new weekend morning anchor.

ABC 7 adding Larry Mowry to weather front from CBS 11 KTVT

Jeff Anastasio joins WFAA 8 as Director of Multimedia Innovation from KENS 5 San Antonio.

HOUSTON

Radio host Nick Wright is leaving Houston for job with Fox Sports.
- A Thank You And Farewell From Nick Wright

Former KTRK abc13 reporter Gene Apodaca is now Freelance Reporter at NY1 News.

Former KTRK abc13 reporter Laura Whitley is now Media Specialist at Metropolitan Transit Authority of Harris County.

CBS Radio’s Mix 96.5 In Houston Announces New Lineup.
- WQMP (101.9 Amp Radio)/Orlando Names Chad Pitt Morning Host.

Houston Chronicle names Al Lewis its business editor.

Houston Chronicle photographer Cody Duty is now a working for the Texas Medical Center.

Brent Taylor leaves the desk at KPRC 2 for METRO.

- Ruben Galvan announced departure from KPRC 2
- Lisa Vaughn joins FOX 26
- Dave Ward returns to KTRK abc13 after fall
- KHOU's 'Great Day Houston' is 10 years old
- Courtney Gilmore to leave KPRC 2 for NBC 5 KXAS DFW
- PK joins Power 96.1 Atlanta
- Natasha Geigel joins FOX 26 KRIV
- Lauren Lea joins KTRK abc13
- Gianna Caserta leaves KPRC 2
- Lainie Fritz joins KPRC 2

SAN ANTONIO

Former S.A. anchors busy with new TV shows.

KENS 5 Great Day SA Host Eileen Teves earned her Doctor of Business Administration from the University of Incarnate Word.

Zac Wellsandt To Oversee iHeart Austin/San Antonio AC & CHRs.

AUSTIN

After 17 years running Austin ABC affiliate KVUE-TV, president and general manager Patti Smith says she’s ready to “hit the pause button.”

KVUE-TV anchor Tyler Sieswerda leaving in May.

Reporter Jason Puckett leaves KAMC News in Lubbock for KVUE Austin.

Morning host JB Hager leaves Classic 105.3.

AROUND TEXAS

J Russell joins KLAF/KADN Lafayette, LA as sports director from Local 2 News KMID Midland/Odessa, TX.

Meteorologist Maggie Dinizio leaves KAMC Lubbock for WZDX Huntsville, AL.

GM David Tillery‘s is leaving Nexstar’s Tyler, Texas, NBC affiliate KETK.

REMEMBERING

Bill “The Master” Bates from 90.1 KPFT's Sweet Nightmares

KGNZ/Abilene, TX Founder Jack Hill Dies

As good as people think I am at tracking Texas media job moves, my image is better than reality. Don't expect that I see every Twitter or Facebook post about your new job. Don't get mad at me, contact me below to make sure I don't miss your big career move!
- Contact here for job changes
- Looking for TX TV jobs?

RELATED
- Texas TV & radio job moves February 2016
- Texas TV & radio job moves January 2016
- Texas TV & radio job moves December 2015
- All the new and disappearing faces on Houston TV screens in 2015


Wednesday, December 29, 2010

Top Houston and Texas media moments of 2010

It was a big hit for 2009, so I thought I would feature the top media moments in Houston for 2010, but this year I expanded it for all of Texas too! This goes in order and because of length, I had to cut stuff. I base this on post traffic, reader reaction, social media among other factors.

New Houston TV reporters and Chronicle staffers leaving

KPRC's Hasti Taghi has a famous name in Houston

KTVT CBS 11 expands 4pm news for DFW

VIDEO: Fox 26 KRIV anchor Jose Grinan's movie scene

New Steve Robison morning show on 103.7FM Houston’s Adult Alternative KHJK-FM

KTSU's Maurice Hope-Thompson dies at age 68

Mike McGuff talks to Pat Gray of the Glenn Beck Show

KENS 5 new anchor Jeff Vaughn hits San Antonio airwaves

Nefertiti Jaquez lands at KPRC 2 Houston

KKTVT news director Scott Diener now at KCBS/KCAL in Los Angeles

KXAS 5 morning anchor Brendan Higgins exits

New weekend anchors for WFAA 8

Lex and Terry Show off 97.1 KEGL Dallas

Former KHOU 11 anchor Lisa Foronda overcomes demons

Fox 26 KRIV anchor Tom Zizka talks skin cancer scare

Lee McGuire exits KHOU 11 Houston

KHOU 11's Gene Norman has powerful TV biz connections

Calvin Murphy leaves 97.5 KFNC show and other sports radio news

New KIAH 39 assignments manager Joe Segura announced

KHOU 11 reporter Kevin Peters leaving TV news

KTRK 13's Adam Darsky heads to WCNC Charlotte as Executive Producer

Congrats to KTRK 13's Miya Shay

1080 KRLD gardening expert Neil Sperry to leave station

VIDEO: Fox 26 KRIV shares its helicopter because it cares

Maria Todd on Mix 96.5 KHMX, but where's Sam Malone?

NBC 5 KXAS anchor Jane McGarry gets shifted

Carson leaves night shift at 104.1 KRBE

Houston talk show host's son dies in accident

CBS 11 KTVT gets new man in charge

New KHOU 11 Houston assistant news director hired

VIDEO: Houston Mayor Annise Parker talks about Mike McGuff day
VIDEO: Houston Mayor Annise Parker talks social media strategy with Mike McGuff
VIDEO: The city of Houston social media architect

Maria Todd and Brad Booker team up for Mix 96.5 KHMX mornings

New KHOU 11 reporters on their way to Houston

Former KHOU 11 talent Darby Douglas gets new gig

Billy Madison leaves 102.1 The Edge KDGE mornings

KPRC 2 reporters Reyna and Jáquez caught in the act

Texas AP 2009-2010 Television Contest Winners

Sam Malone is back on KSEV 700

KTVT 11 and KTXA 21 get Adrienne Roark as news director

KENS 5 announces new 4pm newscast

KHOU 11 Wins 23 Texas Associated Press Broadcasters Awards

Scott Friedman morning anchor for NBC 5 KXAS

740 KTRH's Will Sterrett leaves for Dallas' KRLD

Ralph Cooper honored by Houston Association of Black Journalists

New Fox 26 KRIV anchor/reporter is Natalie Bomke from Fox 40 KTXL

Hudson & Harrigan gone from 100.3 KILT

Texas winners at the 76th annual National Headliner Awards

740 KTRH turns 80 years old

The Fox 26 KRIV 4am anchor shuffle

WOAI 4 Meteorologist Jennifer Broome leaving station

Houston Press food critic Robb Walsh leaves the paper

2010 Texas APME Awards List

KHOU 11 does it again

Texas TV and radio stations win regional Murrow Awards

NBC 5 KXAS gets new meteorologist

VIDEO: KIAH 39 anchor proposed to live on air

39 KIAH news director KyAnn Lewis departs

Fox 26 KRIV layoffs today

KTRK 13 producer jumps in front of the camera

33 KDAF says goodbye to newscast

KIAH 39's newest reporter David Solano

KIII 3 in Corpus Christi to be sold to London Broadcasting

KPRC 2 meteorologist Jonathan Novack is leaving

570 KLIF program director found dead

Rapper Trae Tha Truth is suing 97.9 The Box KBXX

Houston TV meteorologist on ABC's The Bachelorette 2010?

950 KPRC-AM hits 85 years

Former KPRC 2 and current KDAF 33 talent turns off TV career

Houston Chronicle takes over Texas...sort of

KIAH 39 news is in HD with new set

KPRC Local 2 launches new Facebook pages!

Mary Lee storms onto KPRC 2's weather team

Jim Bell signs off 88.7 KUHF NPR Houston

KIAH 39's Hailey Frances leaves for main anchor gig

Houston Chronicle legal journalist Mary Flood moves on

KHOU 11 wins National Edward R. Murrow Award for Overall Excellence

VIDEO: DJ Brandi Garcia discusses being fired from 97.9 The Box

Anchor Alan Hemberger no longer with KIAH 39

Houston traffic radio reporting pioneer Marty Ambrose dies

Erin Anthony's tearful goodbye from Fox 26 KRIV traffic beat

The Russ Martin Show lands at 97.1 The Eagle KEGL Dallas

VIDEO: NBC 5 KXAS Mike Snyder exit tribute

KENS 5 gets reporter Sarah Forgany and Adrienne Alvarez moves up at KDBC

Corpse Flower photos from HMNS

KIAH 39 dumps traditional newscasts

The 2010 Texas Radio Hall of Fame Inductees

KPRC 2 creative services director Gary Wann leaves for KXAS 5 DFW

Fox 26 KRIV steals Michelle Merhar from 740 KTRH

WFAA 8's Gary Cogill leaves TV to start film company

KIAH 39 assignments editor Anesha Evans loses cancer battle

Future of Houston Chronicle and chron.com

Gary Jaffe is new KIAH 39 Imaginator for NewsFix

KTRU Rice Radio to become 91.7 KUHC Classical

The recent San Antonio TV anchor arrivals and departures

Dallas weatherman quits, San Antonio anchor quits, KTBU 55 nixes HS football and more

KTVT 11 on air changes in DFW

KPRC 2 reporter Lisa Baldwin says goodbye

11 News I-Team launches on KHOU

The Retro Television Network (RTV) on air in Houston

Ken Hoffman replaced by former Jim Rome producer on 1560 The Game

KHOU 11 meteorologist Dan Meador loses cancer battle

KIAH 39 loses two reporters; familiar faces fill in

KTRK 13 gets Samica Knight as new reporter

Mike McGuff: From blogger to KIAH 39 reporter

KUBE-TV channel 57 Houston

It's KCBS 2 for Fox 26 KRIV's Sibila Vargas

KTRK 13 steals Alex Radow from KIAH 39

KHOU 11 makes TV history with Emmy win

KTVT hires Lisa Pineiro

KTRK 13 gets new state of the art newsroom (video)

Mark Stevens of Rock 101 KLOL's Stevens and Pruett has passed away

KPRC 2 hires Jennifer Bauer as new reporter

8th Annual Lone Star EMMY Awards winners

KHOU 11 news director Keith Connors leaving in November

TV anchors named Barajas taking over Houston and Texas

KTRK 13 investigative producer Steve Bivens leaves the Wayne Dolcefino world

Jerome Gray to leave KPRC 2; possible replacement

Hudson and Harrigan replaced by Corey Foley and Greg Thunder on 100.3 KILT

Fake KPRC 2 Twitter account takes Houston news to the extreme

Former KTRK 13 staffer becomes Houston Chronicle blogger

After Kristin Kane, how many anchors does Fox 26 KRIV need?

KPRC 2 general manager Larry Blackerby to leave station

Where is Chris Baker on 950 KPRC?

KPRC 2 alum gets CBS Early Show host gig

KTRK 13 reporter Gene Apodaca calls it quits

News 8 Austin’s news director Kevin Benz is gone

KIAH 39 news management change, KHOU 11 gets new executive producer

Former KTRK 13 Undercover photographer joins KIAH 39 News

Houston's Global Broadcasting Channel (GBC)

Former KTRK 13 meteorologist Heidi Jones arrested

KTRK 13 Undercover's Wayne Dolcefino says stop copying my work

KHOU 11's Mark Greenblatt recalls agency leaking his investigations to competitor