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DALLAS - FORT WORTH

D Magazine turns 50 in 2024.
- Inside Our Anniversary Logos
- Bowling With Verne Lundquist

For 30 Years, The Ticket Has Ruled the Airwaves With Its Own Mix of Sports, Stunts and Schtick.

Radio host Corby Davidson agrees to 5-year deal to remain at The Ticket

Bill Hethcock, a long-time member of the Dallas Business Journal newsroom, has been named managing editor.

Evening anchor Cynthia Izaguirre celebrates 16 years with WFAA 8.

CBS 11 KTVT meteorologist Dominic Brown celebrates 16 years in TV.

Morning anchor Shannon Murray celebrates eight years with FOX 4 KDFW.

Morning anchor Kara Sewell celebrates six years with WFAA 8.

Anna Butler has been hired as a real estate reporter for The Dallas Morning News after working for the Dallas Business Journal.

Spencer Brewer joins Law360 from the Dallas Business Journal.

What Does It Mean Now that Amazon Has Entered the Fray for Bally Sports Southwest?

When Will Miriam Adelson Buy the Dallas Morning News?

Cumulus Media’s DFW Radio Stations Raise A Record-Breaking $2.69 Million for Local Charities in 2023.

- WBAP to simulcast on Hot 93.3 Dallas - Fort Worth
- Dia Wall to join WFAA 8 DFW
- Laura Harris is married
- Did Pete Delkus remember longtime WFAA studio tech's birthday?
- Sophia Beausoleil gives birth to baby #3
- WFAA to broadcast 10 Dallas Mavericks games
- Jenny Anchondo gives birth to baby #2
- Mark “Hawkeye” Louis auctioning off baseball card collection
- Laura Harris recovering off-air

HOUSTON

Britain’s oldest national daily newspaper, The Times, writes Houston is, "the most exciting city in America’s Deep South right now."

Beloved writer, radio voice John McClain laid off by Sports Radio 610 after 24 years at station.

Patrick Creighton is back on Sports Radio 610 in Houston.

SportsRadio 610 KILT remains on top in the Houston sports radio wars for the fall radio ratings.

Sean Pendergast went from P1 to Morning Host on Sports Radio 610.

Gina Graff, the glue that held the abc13 KTRK satellite center together for nearly 40 years, has retired.

89.3 KSBJ filled its midday opening with the return of Denise Pagano after the departure of Jen Driskill.

Jim Kovacik joins Houston Public Media as executive producer.

Anna Bauman leaves the Houston Chronicle, where she covered education, children and families, to join Open Vallejo in California.

Michael Murney joins the Houston Landing as a healthcare reporter.

Maria Todd co-hosts the nationally syndicated Todd Newton Morning Show and has been featured in the "Women to Watch" Radio Ink section.

Traffic Master: KSBJ’s Bill Ingram recalls years in radio broadcasting.

The UH Alumni Association will honor Mark Berman ('78) as the recipient of its Distinguished Alumni Award for its 69th Annual Alumni Awards in April 2024.

Fox 26 KRIV anchor/reporter Chelsea Edwards was featured by The Defender as a Houston professional breaking barriers with Black hair.

CW39 KIAH "Houston Happens" host Maggie Flecknoe received the President's Volunteer Service Award for community service.

Rowdy Reaches the Beaches! “Carolina Country” WYAY 106.3 in Bolivia/Wilmington, North Carolina and WGLD 93.9fm Conway/Myrtle Beach, South Carolina are the newest affiliates for SuiteRadio’s “Ridin’ with Rowdy.” With these new additions, Rowdy’s daily shows are now heard on 46 signals across the nation, and will likely see significant expansion in 2024 as the program will be repackaged and offered to other formats later this year.

Advertising and Marketing account executive Marilyn Acosta celebrates 10 years with abc13 KTRK.

- "Houston Happens" expands to 1 hour on CW39
- KPRC 2 Houston celebrates 75th anniversary
- Dayna Steele joins Houston Radio Platinum
- Former Houston TV reporter burglarized
- KPRC 2 new studio update 2024
- Dominique Sachse leaves Houston
- Matthew Seedorff leaves FOX 26
- Luke Jones joins abc13 KTRK
- Houston Landing making its own news
- Justin Stapleton anchors on KPRC 2
- Fmr. KPRC reporter Jake Reiner in TV news parody
- Doug Brown on KHOU 11 in 1974
- Miya Shay returns to abc13 Houston
- Houston reporter a crime victim
- Dominique Sachse joins Dr. Phil network with Kris Gutierrez
- 'Funky’ Larry Jones leaves Majic 102.1 KMJQ Houston
- Jeff Ehling leaves abc13 weekends for streaming
- Bill Tatar joins Audacy Houston
- Natalie Hee is married
- Dominique Sachse answers Dr. Phil questions
- KPRC 2 anchors and newsroom start exercising live on stream
- Rod Ryan celebrates 20 years with 94.5 The Buzz
- KHOU 11 anchors modified by AI

SAN ANTONIO

Mike Taylor and Rudy Jay are the latest San Antonio radio personalities to jump from broadcast to the internet.

Zann Fredlund has been named as Program Director of 96.1 NOW KXXM San Antonio and 96.7 Kiss FM KHFI Austin.

Fiesta, Dia De Los Muertos, Wemby give the San Antonio TV market reasons to celebrate.

San Antonio Talk Staple Joe Pags Reups With iHeart’s WOAI.

KSAT 12 weekend assignments editor Tim Irvin has retired.

- Simoné Simpson joins KENS 5 San Antonio
- "Great Day SA" host Clarke Finney recovering from a brain injury
- Camilla Rambaldi leaves FOX 29 San Antonio
- Audrey Castoreno gives birth to baby 2
- Former San Antonio sportscaster survives RV ejection
- Isis Romero celebrates 20 years in TV

AUSTIN

KVUE Wins Prestigious 2024 Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Awards.

Mike Capps is resigning as the radio voice of the Round Rock Express.

“Voice of the Longhorns” Craig Way named the Texas Sportscaster of the Year by NSMA Sports Media.

John C. Moritz joined the Austin American-Statesman as chief politics reporter.

Kevin Baskar joins KXAN Austin as a video journalist.

University of Texas scholar Iris Chyi has been saying for more than 10 years that digital news reports are an “inferior good” to a daily print summary and largely fail to draw a paying audience or advertising.

Texas Tribune staff unionize, five months after first-ever layoffs.

Is The Austin American-Statesman being starved to death?

- Sean Kelly leaves KXAN Austin
- KXAN Austin anchor 2024 changes
- Hunter Williams is married