Texas Rangers To broadcast 15 games on over-the-air TV

IRVING, TX (Jan. 29, 2025) – Nexstar Media Group, Inc. today announced that it has reached an agreement with the Texas Rangers Major League Baseball team to televise at least 15 regular season games and four spring training games during the 2025 season. 

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The regular-season games will air across 17 Nexstar-owned and partner television stations in Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, and Louisiana.  Nexstar-owned KDAF-TV (CW33) will serve as the flagship station for broadcasts in the Rangers’ home market of Dallas-Ft. Worth (DMA #4).  In San Antonio, Texas, the games will be carried by KCWX-TV, owned by Corridor Television, and in Tulsa, Oklahoma, Ranger games will be broadcast on KQCW-TV, owned by Griffin Media.

“We are extremely pleased to be bringing Rangers baseball to the best fans in the country, and to have KDAF/CW33 serving as the flagship station for Rangers broadcasts in the Dallas-Ft. Worth area,” said Andrew Alford, President of Nexstar’s broadcasting division.  “Securing 15 regular season games and four spring training games for broadcast on free over-the-air television is a clear demonstration of Nexstar’s commitment to serving our local communities with high-quality live sports and entertainment programming.”

The first regular-season game on Nexstar’s stations will air Friday, March 28, against the Boston Red Sox, and the full schedule of televised games will be announced at a later date.  The team’s television game broadcasts will be produced and distributed by Rangers Sports Network, with full information and updates posted at rangers.com/tunein.  

CITY STATION

Dallas, TX KDAF

Houston, TX KIAH

Austin, TX KBVO

Oklahoma City, OK KAUT

New Orleans, LA WNOL

Little Rock / Pine Bluff, AR KASN

Harlingen, TX KGBT

El Paso (Las Cruces), TX KTSM

Waco / Temple / Bryan, TX KYLE

Shreveport, LA KSHV

Baton Rouge, LA WBRL

Ft. Smith / Fayetteville, AR KXNW

Tyler / Longview, TX KTPN

Lafayette, LA KLFY

Amarillo, TX KCPN

Monroe, LA – El Dorado, AR KARD

Wichita Falls and Lawton, TX KJBO

San Antonio, TX KCWX

Tulsa, OK KQCW

(This post taken from a press release)

Texas 2021 NAB Marconi Radio Awards Winners

The National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) announced its winners of the 2021 NAB Marconi Radio Awards and here are the Texas radio station winners.

Legendary Manager of the Year
Ben Downs, Bryan Broadcasting

CHR Station of the Year
KNDE-FM, College Station, Texas

Major Market Personality of the Year
The Musers - Dunham, Miller & Keith,
KTCK-AM, Dallas, Texas

Small Market Personality of the Year
Frito and Katy, KNDE-FM, College Station, Texas

Small Market Station of the Year
WTAW-AM, College Station, Texas

 

Sports Station of the Year
KTCK-AM, Dallas, Texas

See the full list of winners here.

UPDATE WITH CUMULUS PRESS RELEASE FOR DFW METROPLEX MARCONI RADIO AWARDS

Dallas’ KTCK-AM/Sportsradio 96.7 and 1310 The Ticket Named Sports Station of the Year

Top-Rated Morning Show “The Musers” Co-Hosts Dunham, Miller & Keith Named Major Market Personality of the Year

DALLAS, Nov. 11, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- CUMULUS MEDIA (NASDAQ: CMLS) announced that its Dallas, TX, radio station, KTCK-AM/Sportsradio 96.7 and 1310 The Ticket won two awards at the 2021 National Association of Broadcasters' (NAB) Marconi Radio Awards. The Ticket was named Sports Station of the Year and co-hosts George Dunham, Craig Miller, and Gordon Keith were named Major Market Personality of the Year for their top-rated morning show, The Musers.

The Ticket’s line-up of long-time personalities are market super stars who set the sports talk narrative in Dallas-Fort Worth. This award marks the fourth time the station has been honored with a Marconi for Sports Station of the Year.

The Musers’ Dunham, Miller and Keith have been entertaining Dallas-Fort Worth listeners for more than 27 years in morning drive on KTCK-AM/Sportsradio 96.7 and 1310 The Ticket. The Musers has been named Best DFW Radio Show by the Dallas Morning News, Dallas Observer, and the American Women in Radio & Television/Alliance for Women in Media. The Musers is the longest-running morning show with the same crew in Dallas-Fort Worth and has been the top-rated show in the market since 1995. The program can be heard weekdays from 5:30am-10:00am on Sportsradio 96.7 and 1310 The Ticket.

Dan Bennett, Regional Vice President, Cumulus Dallas/Houston, said: “Our entire team in Dallas congratulates The Ticket staff and Dunham, Miller and Gordon for their historic wins, and we are equally proud of Mark “Hawkeye” Louis and Michelle Rodriguez on Cumulus Dallas’ New Country 96.3/KSCS-FM for their finalist nomination for Major Market Personality of the Year. For Cumulus Dallas to have two of the five finalists in this category is an honor for our entire team.”

Marconi finalists were selected by a task force of broadcasters, and the winners were voted on by the NAB Marconi Radio Awards Selection Academy. Established in 1989 and named after inventor and Nobel Prize winner Guglielmo Marconi, the NAB Marconi Radio Awards are given to radio stations and outstanding on-air personalities to recognize excellence in radio.

To stream KTCK-AM/The Ticket, visit: https://www.theticket.com/.

To stream KSCS-FM/New Country 96.3 visit: https://www.newcountry963.com/.

Newsy hires Texas bureau reporters

Newsy just announced the journalists staffing its Texas news bureau.

The E.W. Scripps Company news outlet, which says it is the nation’s only free 24/7 broadcast news network, is now available in 90% of US TV homes through over the air (OTA) digital sub-channels, Newsy.com and streaming services. 

Newsy launched on free TV October 4, 2021, but has been streaming since 2008.

“We believe it’s imperative to have reporters all over the country, living in or near the communities they cover and interacting with people from all walks of life,” said Eric Ludgood, head of Newsy. “That is going to help us capture the perspectives of a wide range of America.”

Here are the reporters staffing the Newsy Texas bureau in Dallas.

Jamal Andress, Justice Correspondent
Andress’ storytelling has taken him from Accra, Ghana, to cover international education, to Chicago’s Southwest Side to report on the shooting of Laquan McDonald and the subsequent trial of Jason Van Dyke. In one of his most memorable interviews, Andress went to Charlottesville, Virginia, and spoke with Susan Bro, whose daughter Heather Heyer was killed during the “United the Right” rally a year earlier.

John Mone, National Correspondent
Mone has worked in television news for 20 years and was most recently at the Associated Press. Over the last 14 years, he covered some of the biggest breaking news stories and events, including being among the first wave of media to arrive in Haiti after a catastrophic earthquake destroyed much of the capital city, Port-au-Prince, and Leogane. He’s covered the Olympics, World Cup, death of Michael Jackson, worst oil spill in U.S. history, and spent six months on the 2012 Romney presidential campaign.

Scott Withers, Meteorologist
After a four-time Emmy-winning career as an ABC News producer and reporter based out of Florida, Withers re-invented himself as a meteorologist, climate scientist and geologist. Before ABC News, he worked for CNN in New York, London and Atlanta.

Here are the Texas television stations now carrying Newsy:

Amarillo

KAUO

15.6

Austin

KVAT-LD

17.6

Corpus Christi

KRIS

6.6

Dallas-Ft. Worth

KPXD

68.7

McAllen-Brownsville-Harlingen-Weslaco

KAZH

57.3

Houston

KPXB

49.7

*UPDATE: The Newsy website says it is 49.6 and it shows on my guide that Newsy is on that channel, but according to a viewer email and my checking, Newsy is actually airing on 49.7 in Houston. 49.6 is actually the TruReal channel in Houston.

Lubbock

K32OV-D

24.4

San Antonio

KPXL

26.7

Tyler-Longview-Lufkin-Nacogdoches

KPKN

33.4

Waco-Temple-Killeen-Bryan

KXXV

25.5