CW33 KDAF DFW launching Morning After with Ron Corning and Jenny Anchondo
Are we watching a CW33 KDAF daily digital show morphing into an actual morning television newscast?
Could a daily digital show on CW33 KDAF Dallas really be development for a new morning television newscast? Well, a tease on social media pretty much says that, but more on that in a minute!
After NewsFix and the syndicated version of Morning Dose were cancelled before Irving-based Nexstar Media Group bought Tribune Media, CW33 KDAF in Dallas-Fort Worth stopped producing newscasts.
Morning Dose's syndicated set at KDAF in Dallas, was shipped to Houston and the show, in name only, continued on CW39 KIAH with a new team.
Now it appears KDAF is set to start morning news on its TV signal once again.
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In early April, the station launched a digital program called “Coronavirus: The Daily” hosted by DFW TV personalities Ron Corning and Jenny Anchondo with producer Melissa Plaskoff.
Corning, as DFW watchers will know, left WFAA 8's Daybreak in March of 2019. He was an anchor on the show for eight years. Before that, you might have seen him nationally on World News Now and ABC World News This Morning or The Daily Buzz.
Anchondo's last TV gig was co-host of the syndicated version of Morning Dose. Before that Anchondo anchored the FOX 4 KDFW weekend morning newscasts, “Good Day Saturday” and “Good Day Sunday” and reported for "Good Day" throughout the week. Before Texas, she worked for WXIN Indianapolis, KOLD Tucson, AZ, KNDU/KNDO Kennewick, Washington and KQQQ-AM Pullman, Washington.
UPDATE MAY 29, 2020
CW33 KDAF DFW launching Morning After with Ron Corning and Jenny Anchondo
After Morning Dose, Anchondo has teamed up with her husband for the podcast, Second Shot with Heath Oakes and Jenny Anchondo.
Now there are teases on social media that this digital project is going to TV. It doesn't get anymore clearer than "Sneak Peek! New AM show coming soon to [CW33] #REHEARSAL".
Here is where I will throw in my unsolicited two cents, no matter what any TV station says, digital shows are not where the money is...not yet at least. The moneymaker, even with declining TV news viewership before the coronavirus, is the actual television signal.
In Houston at least, I look at some of the view counts the station's digital shows get on YouTube and they are minuscule compared to the actual television news broadcasts. It appears hitting a thousand views would be a cause for celebration.
UPDATE MAY 29, 2020
CW33 KDAF DFW launching Morning After with Ron Corning and Jenny Anchondo
If you have any Dallas media news tips (or any Texas market) let me know. I mainly cover Houston TV news, but will gladly cover other parts of our great state.
