KRGV Rio Grande Valley hires Marianela Aguirre and Hugo Magallan to anchor Azteca America's HECHOS Valle a las 5 and HECHOS Valle a las 10
Marianela Aguirre hired by KRGV
KRGV is pleased to announce that on October 1, 2020, Azteca Valle will be available
over the air on Channel 5.2 and on Spectrum Cable Channel 1240.
Azteca America serves over 60 stations in different cities across the United States with large Hispanic and Latin American populations, now including the Rio Grande Valley of South Texas.
The Rio Grande Valley will now have a new option for Spanish language programming, which
includes local news, sports, entertainment, miniseries and novelas.
HECHOS Valle newscasts will be produced by KRGV in Weslaco and will offer more local news in
Spanish than any station in the area.
"Our goal is to provide our audience with local news they can trust in the language they prefer"
said John Kittleman, KRGV-TV General Manager. "We are here to serve our community. The Rio
Grande Valle trusts Channel 5 News and now we want to provide the Valley with high quality
Spanish-language programming and local news."
News anchors Daisy Martinez and Arturo Vargas from Somos Noticias will continue to anchor
for HECHOS Valle.
KRGV is happy to announce the hiring of Marianela Aguirre to anchor HECHOS Valle a las 5 and
HECHOS Valle a las 10.
Aguirre previously spent more than 16 years at KNVO-48, the Univision affiliate in McAllen,
working in several capacities including news anchor and News Director. She also worked at
KGBT -TV as Azteca America anchor.
Another addition to the HECHOS Valle team is Hugo Magallan, who will be co-anchoring with
Aguirre. Magallan worked for several years anchoring at KNVO-48 before moving to KTLM-TV,
the local Telemundo station, where he was weekend anchor.
News Director Zoltan Csanyi-Salcedo says, “With the launch of Hechos Valle and the addition of
Marianela and Hugo, Azteca Valle and Hechos Valle will have two of the strongest well known
anchors in the Spanish language TV in the RGV. Combined with CHANNEL 5 NEWS, we will have
the most experienced news and weather team in the Valley regardless of language.”
(This post was taken from a releases sent to me by KRGV)
