Melinda Spaulding might have left the FOX 26 KRIV anchor desk a few years ago, but she and the station are still collaborating and now have been featured in the New York Times:
"Fox stations in several cities are airing teachers’ lessons as well, thanks to Melinda Spaulding Chevalier, a Houston resident and former TV news anchor who thought of the concept in March. She pitched a daily program featuring teachers to her old boss, D’Artagnan Bebel, the general manager of Houston’s Fox station. He was in.
Less than two weeks later, local educators were on the air, teaching condensed lessons for an hour.
The concept quickly spread to Fox stations in Chicago, San Francisco and Washington, all of which joined with local school districts or teacher unions to put teachers on television. (The initiative ended in Houston and Washington after the spring but is still airing every weekday in San Francisco and on Saturdays in Chicago.)" READ MORE
NYT reporter Kellen Browning wrote that in Houston, "an average of 37,000 people watched the program each time it aired in the spring."
Other Houston TV stations were also providing virtual learning programming in March of 2020, too.
As for Spaulding, after 13 years with KRIV, she is now the Vice President For Advancement & Communications at Texas Southern University (TSU).
