KPRC 2 knocked it out of the park Tuesday night during the “KPRC 2 Night at the Astros” event, featuring two card flip stunts worthy of the station’s historic year-long 70th Anniversary celebration.
On Tuesday, July 23, during the Astros game against the Oakland A’s, KPRC 2 hosted more than 264 staff, friends and fans in the upper deck of Minute Maid Park to execute two card flip stunts between the 3rd and 4th innings of the game. Along with recognition on the Minute Maid JumboTron, footage from the stunts was also recorded by KPRC 2 for future promotional campaigns. You
can watch the full card stunt here.
Leading up to the game, KPRC 2 hosted a contest on the station’s Facebook page for Top Fans to win tickets, selected by random draw, to the event along with a chance to rub elbows with many of their favorite on-air personalities. More than 15 anchors and reporters, 60 Top Fans and nearly 200 KPRC staff, friends and family participated in each of the 45-second stunts.
KPRC 2 News Today anchors Owen Conflenti, Amy Davis, Haley Hernandez, Jennifer Reyna & Meteorologist Britta Merwin, KPRC 2 News at 10 anchors Bill Balleza, Dominique Sachse, Chief Meteorologist Frank Billingsley & Sports Director Randy McIlvoy, Houston Life co-hosts Derrick Shore & Courtney Zavala, plus anchor/reporters Jonathan Martinez, Sofia Ojeda, Keith Garvin and Bill Spencer all made appearances at Minute Maid Park before and during the game. Given their vastly different work schedules, it’s a rare occurrence to have this many anchor teams in one place. See pictures here.
Local press members, including television blogger Mike McGuff and Houston Chronicle Digital Reporter Marcy de Luna, were present to participate and witness the spirited live stunt.
Viewers unable to attend the game were able to follow along with the festivities on all KPRC 2 social platforms, including
Click2Houston.com, Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. See their posts here.
“We’ve had such a great time celebrating 70 years of KPRC 2 firsts,” said KPRC 2 Vice President/General Manager Jerry Martin. “What better opportunity to celebrate another first than with more than 250 of our favorite people – our viewers!”
The “KPRC 2 Night at the Astros” card stunt also served as the kickoff to “KPRC 2’s Million Likes Mania” campaign, encouraging viewers to “Like” the KPRC 2 Facebook page to help us reach a million likes.
(This post was taken from a release sent to me by KPRC)
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