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Friday, May 01, 2020

Texas TV news and radio job moves April 2020



DALLAS - FORT WORTH

Sportscaster Newy Scruggs celebrates 20 years with NBC DFW 5 KXAS.

FOX 4 KDFW meteorologist Evan Andrews' dogs, Penny, is a media hit.

Mike Rhyner invented a radio format in Dallas that changed the country and made him a legend. Then, unexpectedly, he retired.

Freddy Oldenburg has been named VP of news for WNJU, the Telemundo station in the New York market after KXTK Dallas-Fort Worth.

CW33 KDAF launched the digital program “Coronavirus: The Daily” featuring veteran local broadcast news personalities Ron Corning and Jenny Anchondo.

Radio host ‘Doc’ Gallagher gets 25 years for bilking Christian investors out of millions.


HOUSTON

Reporter Esmeralda Medellin leaves Telemundo Houston KTMD after working there since 2017.

Houston Chronicle appoints Drane as biz reporter.

Remember the KPRC 2 banana error, abc13 KTRK has its own error without the promotional campaign afterwards.

Two Houston Chronicle investigations team was honored by the National Headliner Awards.

KHOU 11 consumer reporter Tiffany Craig celebrates 10 years with the station.

Tino Cochino Radio debuts afternoons on Radio Now 92.1-FM KROI Houston and Radio Now 100.9-FM WNOU Indianapolis.

KTRU sustains its sound from a distance with new remote programming.

Cathy Matusow Balke leaves Houstonia Magazine editor job for a similar role with the Houston Grand Opera. (Thanks Susan Farb Morris)

- TEGNA, owner of KHOU and many Texas stations, announces furloughs
- KPRC 2, KHOU 11, FOX26, CW39 join forces for COVID-19 PSA
- Nick Natario takes stay at home studio to next level
- MaryAnn Martinez leaves KPRC 2
- Mary Benton appointed Director of Communications for Mayor Sylvester Turner
- Carlos Robles using augmented reality weather graphics from home
- Mia Gradney anchored CBS Weekend News Easter weekend
- KTRK GM Granato: "TV is seeing a huge resurgence"
- “abc13 Eyewitness News at 9 PM on CW39” debuts May 11th
- Lauren Talarico announces baby #2
- Rashi Vats and Daniel Gotera have baby #2
- Dominique Sachse: How to look and sound your best on Zoom
- Taniya Wright leaves KPRC 2
- KPRC's Ari Alexander raps Paul Wall lyrics live on channel 2
- VIDEO: 1993 Houston radio station promos
- Lisa Hernandez joins KPRC 2
- VIDEO: The 1947 Texas City Disaster
- VIDEO: Randy McIlvoy talks sports broadcasting during COVID-19
- Houston film critics review "Movies on Lockdown" free for broadcast
- Michael Lopardi joins KPRC 2
- abc13 KTRK's Dave Ward has been hospitalized
- Maria Salazar's baby is here
- Univision cancels some weekend newscasts, announces job cuts
- Tom Abrahams' new book is about a pandemic


SAN ANTONIO

KCYY Y100 announced Joe Pesh as its new morning co-host.

- KENS 5 Reporter/MMJ Roxie Bustamante joins abc13 KTRK


AUSTIN

Austin American-Statesman photojournalist Lola Gomez tests positive for coronavirus.

The Austin American-Statesman launches a new streaming station, the Statesman News Network, with Jeff Ward.


AROUND TEXAS

KXXV Waco-Temple-Killeen anchor evening anchor Lindsay Liepman moves to mornings with Joe Gumm and Josh Johns. Niyah Gonzalez joins the station to anchor evenings with Todd Unger.

El Paso NBC affiliate KTSM posted an apology Saturday for comments made by news anchor, Patricia Maese.

Hunter Davis has joined Fox News as an MMJ based in Austin. She moves from Waco’s KXXV-TV, where she was the weekend anchor/reporter. - Eatman Media Services

Michael Behrens joined the 13 ON YOUR SIDE WZZM Weather team after TEGNA sister station KYTX CBS 19 in Tyler.

Second Classic Rocker Blasts Off In Rio Grande Valley.

Hank-FM Comes To Wichita Falls.

Radio veteran Scott Gaines has been named OM for Alpha Media's four-station cluster in Amarillo and PD/afternoon host for Country KGNC.

KGNC Amarillo Adds ‘Big D & Bubba’ For Mornings.

Ted Cruz To Propose Law Banning Chinese From Airing 'Propaganda' On Mexican, Canadian Border Stations Aimed At America.

iHeartMedia To Require Two Weeks Of Unpaid Vacation For Salaried Employees.

KIII's John-Thomas Kobos on the suit mullet.


REMEMBERING

abc13 KTRK Photographer Willie Dixon remembered by Houston media world.

Ivory Hecker returns to FOX 26 after father's death.

Fmr. KHOU photographer John Shaw loses wife to COVID-19.

KTEN Denison News Director Mark Farrell dead at 55.

Longtime Dallas Radio Personality Jimmy Stewart Passes.

R.I.P.: John Roberts Townsquare Media Tyler, TX OM.




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