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Tuesday, September 01, 2020

Texas TV news and radio job moves August 2020


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BLOOPERS
- Funniest Animals and Work From Home News Bloopers
- Best Work From Home TV News Bloopers
- Funniest TV News Animals Bloopers
- TV news reporter explains on-air bloopers


DALLAS - FORT WORTH

Former WFAA 8 reporter and congressional candidate Brett Shipp changes his Twitter bio to "Spectrum News Texas." (UPDATE: He removed his bio)

What began 17 years ago in the DFW market with ESPN Dallas radio and ESPNDallas.com is dead.

1310 The Ticket’s Norm Hitzges announces he’s undergoing treatment for bladder cancer

Entercom Regional President and Dallas Market Manager Brian Purdy takes on Austin, Chattanooga, Houston, and New Orleans in addition to Dallas.

WFAA's Rebecca Lopez on being an empty nester as son prepares to start college.

Veda Loca returns to radio for “Veda Loca’s House Party” on Adult R&B “Majic 94.5” KZMJ.

Jordana Klein joins Hot 93.3 KLIF for voice imaging.

Dallas Morning News Senior Visual Journalist Tommy Noel joins Heritage Auctions.

- Alberto Romero returns to FOX 4 KDFW after bad accident
- Texas TV political spending important to station owners
- NBC 5 KXAS Lesson Plan: Learning at Home
- Julia Morales interviewed on 105.3 The Fan Dallas


HOUSTON

Anchor Art Rascon celebrates 27 Years with the ABC/DISNEY Company and 22 years with abc13 KTRK Houston.

Investigative photographer/editor John Barone retires from KPRC after 37 years.

KPRC 2 executive producer Rhonda Lamon leaves KPRC 2 for a new job in NYC.

Houston Chronicle Political editor/writer John Gravois joins the Dallas Morning News as assistant political editor.

Houston Chronicle Energy reporter Sergio Chapa joins Houston's Bloomberg bureau.

Reporter Natasha Geigel returns to mornings on FOX 26 KRIV.

Houston Forward Times celebrates 60 years in Third Ward.

abc13 KTRK reporter Jeff Ehling shares secrets to his nearly 40-pound weight loss journey.

The Houston Chronicle’s “Texas Sports Nation” television returns Sunday nights on KPRC 2.

Retired Associated Press reporter Michael Graczyk discusses covering more than 400 executions.

Jada Anissa Teague and Anthony Wood join Sports Illustrated/Maven as a Houston Texans Beat Reporters.

Claire Bermudez and Briahn Hawkins join the KHOU 11 Producer-in-Residence program.

- Deborah Wrigley to leave abc13 KTRK
- Where is Collin Myers?
- KHOU's Sally Ramirez to executive produce CNBC's “The News With Shepard Smith”
- Houston Life debuts at 3pm, Joe Sam joins
- Lainie Fritz leaves TV sports behind for now
- Chelsea Edwards is pregnant
- Taniya Wright shares what she wished she knew before surgery
- Madd Hatta to advise KTSU The Vibe
- Comedian Chinedu Ogu is now appearing on KHOU 11's Sports Extra, #HTownRush and Great Day Houston
- Kaitlin Monte is teasing us with "9.14.20"
- Madd Hatta purchases George Floyd portrait benefiting Project Row Houses
- Taniya Wright: Whataburger vs In-N-Out Burger
- David Nuño and Raheel Ramzanali interview Tom Abrahams and Chance McClain
- KPRC 950 AM to continue as Houston Cougars Football & Men's Basketball flagship station
- Janel Forte's grandmother passes away
- City of Houston new system for Texas Public Information Act Requests
- Dominique Sachse simplifies life by reducing excess, cost & lost time

Hurricane Laura Coverage
- Nexstar shows Houston how it competes during Hurricane Laura
- VIDEO: TV stations cover Hurricane Laura recap
- KPRC producer Erica Young talks working in TV when storm is hitting your home
- Telemundo Houston's Hurricane Laura coverage most watched


SAN ANTONIO

Monica Navarro beats odds, celebrates 37 years at Univision San Antonio.

iHeartRadio/San Antonio Launches Friday Night Virtual Dance Party.

- KSAT 12 San Antonio promotes Stephanie Serna to mornings and Sarah Acosta to weekend mornings
- KSAT 12 producer discusses COVID-19 experience and what she did next
- Get to know KSAT 12’s new GMSA anchor Stephanie Serna


AUSTIN

Is there still good news out there? KVUE colleagues share positive stories.

- Robert Hadlock celebrates 30 years at KXAN Austin
- KVUE reporter Kalyn Norwood to join KOAT 7 News Albuquerque as weekend evening anchor/reporter
- Elise Hu: From KVUE to VICE News


AROUND TEXAS

Don Brubaker celebrates 36 years at KAVU.

Victor Venegas leaves KTSM El Paso.

CBK Media Management client Elizabeth Pace joins WAVE Louisville, Kentucky as a News Reporter/Anchor. She has previously worked as a Weekend Evening News Anchor/Reporter at KLBK (CBS) in Lubbock.

Former KWTX Waco-Temple-Killeen anchor Tara Mergener joins the OTA Talent Agency as agent.

One of the three other finalists for awards in the Medium Market Television category in NAB’s Leadership Foundation Honors is KWTX-TV in Waco, Texas, for its annual Food for Families campaign, which celebrates its 30th anniversary this November.

Two young women from Texas, Nicole Auringer and Mariam Qureshi, have been selected for the prestigious Television Academy Foundation’s Summer Fellowship Program.

- Mark Silberstein joins KRIS Corpus Christi
- After KWTX 10 Waco, reporter Brandon Hamilton joins WBTV Charlotte, NC
- Joe Puma joins KVII Amarillo
- Isaac Williams joins NBC 23 KVEO Brownsville
- Andrew Tate joins KTEN Sherman
- Sydney Hernández joining Local 23 KVEO as evening anchor in Brownsville, Texas


REMEMBERING

Clint Bourland, 92, legendary Dallas news producer and television pioneer, passed Wednesday, Aug. 5, 2020, of natural causes with his wife Mary at his side. For more than two decades until his retirement in 1993, Clint produced news programs for KXAS-TV, Channel 5, working with such local luminaries as Harold Taft, Chip Moody, Jane McGarry, Mike Snyder, David Finfrock, Brad Wright, Bobbie Wygant and some who went on to the networks, such as Bob Schieffer and Charles Murphy.

Former KENS 5 general manager Robert McGann passes away.

Beloved, 'one-of-a-kind' Waco broadcaster Butch Henry dies at age 80.

- Kelly Plasker, KCBD Lubbock forecaster, dies



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