CBS 11 KTVT Dallas-Fort Worth is adding two weekend morning newscasts with anchor Robbie Owens to its Saturday and Sunday morning TV schedule.
Starting April 24, 2021, “CBS 11 News Saturday Morning” from 9am to 10am. While starting April 25, 2021, “CBS 11 News Sunday Morning” hits the airwaves from 7am to 8am.
"The Dallas-Fort Worth market is one of the fastest growing markets in the country and CBS 11 is dedicated to serving the community that depends on us for accurate and trustworthy information," KTVT/CBS 11 VP of News, Laurie Passman said on the station's website. "We’re very excited about this expansion of our news product."
In the official KTVT announcement the stations does not specifically say who will be working with Owens in the weather department or reporting roles.
"It’s an honor to have a veteran journalist like Robbie Owens leading the charge for us," said VP and General Manager Gary Schneider who announced on LinkedIn he will be retiring from KTVT on June 4th, 2021.
Owens started with KTVT in July of 2000.
Before that, Owens worked for the News of Texas, a syndicated newscast that ran for a few years in the late 1990s.
Her bio lists a "a brief stop in Kansas" which we presume was a TV station.
Before Kansas, Owens worked as the KVUE Austin education reporter. She began her career with KWTX Waco, Temple, Killeen.
The University of Texas grad worked outside of TV news in the business world after college, but returned to school to earn a Masters of Science in Journalism from Northwestern University’s Medill School. Owens even earned the school’s highest honor, the Harrington Award, for a 4.0 GPA.
An interesting note, according to her bio, Owens grew up in a tiny town in northeast Texas where her family lived for six generations!
