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Monday, June 01, 2020

Texas TV news and radio job moves May 2020


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DALLAS - FORT WORTH

Russ McCaskey and Jennifer Lindgren among CBS 11 KTVT layoffs.

CW33 KDAF DFW launching Morning After with Ron Corning and Jenny Anchondo.

KTCK The Tickets adds Fox Sports Radio for Weeknights, Weekends.

Univision DFW teams with schools to launch Unidos para Aprender.

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- Newsradio 1080 KRLD wins two 2020 Regional Edward R. Murrow Awards
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HOUSTON

97.5 FM KFNC hosts Raheel Ramzanali and Barry Laminack lost their jobs because of the economic downturn associated with the COVID-19 pandemic the station said.
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740 KTRH morning news editor John Labus leaves for Harris County job.

Todd Freed's High School Sports Zone show on KUBE 57 has been cancelled due to economic factors stemming from the Coronavirus.

KPRC 2 consumer reporter/anchor Amy Davis celebrates 15 years with channel 2.

FOX 26 KRIV technical director Stuart Green retires from the station since 1986. Before that he was an audio director and camera operator at KXAN Austin from 1980 to 1986.

Amanda Drane joins the Houston Chronicle from Pittsfield, Massachusetts' Amanda Drane.

The Houston Chronicle won the Newsroom of the Year award in the state’s annual journalism contest, marking the second year in a row the newspaper has earned such a high honor. The Texas Associated Press Managing Editors (TAPME), which oversees the contest, made the announcement.

Texans drama provides 610 KILT morning ratings surge.

Reporter Sally Mamdooh leaves KPRC 2.

Chris Pruitt Vice President and General Manager of CW39 KIAH. He comes from Nexstar sister-station FOX 44 KWKT-KYLE in Waco, Temple, Killeen and Bryan-College Station.

Roula Christie of the 104.1 KRBE The Roula & Ryan Show launches Weekends with Roula syndicated show

abc13 KTRK reporter Stefania Okolie starts athletic brand Solely Fit.

Dayna Steele starts new podcast ‘The Rock Star Principles of Success

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SAN ANTONIO

KENS 5 San Antonio morning traffic anchor Niku Kazori has left the TEGNA station.

San Antonio viewers have made KENS 5 Eyewitness News This Morning the city’s most watched morning newscast in the recently completed May Nielsen ratings race.

KSAT 5, 6 and 10pm anchor Steve Spriester featured in Rapper Future's latest album “High Off Life."

Learn a little more about the KSAT meteorologist Justin Horne and the "Junior Meterologist” series.

Get to know Fox-29 and News 4 San Antonio's newest reporter Gloria DeLeon.

KSAT 12 Meteorologist Kaiti Blake has been designated as a Certified Broadcast Meteorologist by the American Meteorological Society.

KSAT12 welcomes reporter Sarah Acosta back after surgery for ruptured achilles.

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AUSTIN

KVUE 24 Austin Chief Meteorologist Albert Ramon is heading to News Nation on WGN America

NewsChannel 9 WSYR Syracuse, NY morning anchor Jennifer Sanders returns to Texas at KXAN Austin.

Spectrum Austin Anchor Meg Bonacorsi had been missing from the air a few months ago and and she went on social media to explain why.

KGSR Imports Brooke & Jeffrey For Mornings.


AROUND TEXAS

Three key members of ABC7 Amarillo KVII are leaving at the same time. Chief Meteorologist Steve Kersh, Morning and Midday Meteorologist Alyssa Pawlak and Niccole Caan are all leaving the station. Caan is leaving for a job in San Antonio.

Brittney Cottingham becomes assistant news director at KFDX Wichita Falls.

Olivia Rae Whitehead joins KLBK Lubbock as their weekend anchor/reporter.

Jordan Evans joins the KXXV Waco weather team.

Scripps owned KRIS Corpus Christi lost its TV tower when it went down in high winds.

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REMEMBERING

Cleverley Stone dies of cancer.

Retired KPRC 2 photographer Wendel Johnson remembered by colleagues and friends in the field

Arif Memon, 58, a well-known DJ for 106.1 HUMFM, was killed in a crash.

Longtime sportswriter, radio host Roger B. Brown remembered for vibrant personality. Brown, the Star-Telegram’s first full-time black sportswriter, covered the Dallas Mavericks and high schools.

Former KTSA/San Antonio, Texas Public Radio News Anchor Brent Boller dies.




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