Don Brubaker is celebrating his 40th anniversary with 25 News Now KAVU Victoria today. (SEE MORE FROM THE STATION)
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Brubaker started with the Crossroads sports team in 1984. As one of the country's longest-serving sports anchors, Brubaker moved to news in 2020 and is now the main anchor for three evening newscasts.
Broadcasting was in Brubaker's blood early on. As a student at Houston's Westbury High School, he started as a morning P.A. announcer and served as sports editor for the student paper.
As a University of Houston Cougar, Brubaker covered sports for the school's 88.7 KUHF and the Daily Cougar student newspaper. He covered the first two-day college football game in NCAA history, in which the Houston Cougars beat Texas A&M in a Saturday night game that ended on Sunday morning.
In 1980, Brubaker started as a sports intern for KPRC 2 Houston and 950 KPRC-AM while working part-time on the sports desk at the now-defunct Houston Post. He interviewed rising Houston sports stars such as Hakeem Olajuwon, Clyde Drexler, Carl Lewis, Mary Lou Retton, Thurman Thomas, and Roger Clemens.
He has earned multiple journalistic awards, including two Texas Associated Press Awards, a Texas Association of Broadcasters award, Sportswriter of the Year by the Texas Association of Private and Parochial Schools (TAPPS) in 2011, and the Sports Award from the African-American Chamber of Commerce of Victoria in 2010.
In 2012, Brubaker became the first Victoria media person to receive the Southern Texas PGA Media award.
