Patrina Adger has wrapped up her time at KFDM 6 in Beaumont, where she served as the station's weekday noon anchor and morning reporter in October 2026.
Adger joined KFDM in July 2023 after working as a freelance multimedia journalist for ABC13 KTRK in Houston. During her time at KFDM, she covered stories throughout Southeast Texas and earned recognition for her reporting, including being voted Best Journalist in the Beaumont Enterprise's 2024 Best of the Best awards.
She previously worked as a:
- reporter for KOCO 5 Oklahoma City
- MMJ for KBTX Bryan/College Station
- feature reporter, Examiner.com Dallas
- reporter FOX 29 KABB San Antonio StudyJournalism
- reporter, KOTV Tulsa, OK
- reporter for WSIL Southern Illinois
Patrina was a military brat born in the United Kingdom and raised in San Antonio.
She earned a Communications/Radio and TV degree from Prairie View A&M and recently received her Master's degree in Strategic Communications from the University of Houston-Downtown.
Patrina's work has been recognized by the Society of Professional Journalists, the Press Club of Southeast Texas, and the Texas Association of Broadcasters. She was also a 2021 candidate for Oklahoma’s Woman of the Year for its Leukemia and Lymphoma Society fundraiser. She also received the "Dignitary Public Sector Hero Award" for her community service.
In her first year with KFDM, Patrina was recognized as Best Journalist in Beaumont Enterprise's "Best of the Best" in Southeast Texas 2024, which is voted on by the public. The Press Club of Southeast Texas awarded her first place for Best Use of Social Media (Individual). The organization also recognized Patrina's breaking news coverage. For the second year in a row, she was selected as an ambassador for United Way's Ladies in Red campaign. The Texas Association of Broadcast Journalists named Patrina a finalist for best reporter in a small market in March 2026.
Her reporting on the jury selection of Joe Maldonado, better known as Joe Exotic, was also featured in the hit NETFLIX documentary series "Tiger King". One of her first and most memorable interviews came early in her career, with the Godfather of Soul, James Brown, before he passed away.
