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Tuesday, December 30, 2025

Houston 2025 TV and radio job moves

Thursday, April 17, 2025

Chauncy Glover's CBS Los Angeles successor named

CBS Los Angeles (KCBS/KCAL) has announced that Rudabeh Shahbazi will join Pat Harvey as co-anchor of the weekday evening newscasts, stepping into the role previously held by Chauncy Glover, who passed away in November 2024.

Sheba Turk has been promoted to Shahbazi’s former morning anchor role on KCAL News Mornings. Beginning Monday, April 28, she will co-anchor alongside Jamie Yuccas.

A four-time Emmy Award-winning journalist, Shahbazi will co-anchor the 5:00 PM, 9:00 PM, and 11:00 PM newscasts with Harvey.

Turk will join the station’s eight-hour morning news block, including the CBS News Los Angeles streaming channel, and will anchor from 7:00–10:00 AM.

“This is an incredibly exciting time for CBS Los Angeles and our viewers,” Tim Wieland, regional president and general manager of CBS Los Angeles and CBS Colorado, said in a statement. “Our goal is to continue delivering high-quality local news, and strengthening our lineup with two anchors who are both exceptional storytellers and deeply engaged members of the community accomplishes that.”

Monday, March 03, 2025

Texas TV news and radio job moves February 2025

Send tips for the monthly Texas media job list here.

- Best TV News Bloopers February 2025

DALLAS - FORT WORTH

Morning anchor Deborah Ferguson celebrates 34 years with NBC5 KXAS.

Mike Bacsik to Leave 105.3 The Fan at the End of February.

Developer scraps plan to convert ex-Dallas Morning News into fun zone.

88.3 The Journey KJRN Keene announces longtime KLTY Dallas Program Director, Mike Prendergast, signed on to consult.

Matt Goodman is leaving D Magazine.

WBAP Adds The Joe Pags Show to Daily Lineup.

- 97.9 The Beat DFW is NAB 2025 Crystal Radio Award finalist
- Johnny Resendiz joins CBS News Texas
- Monty Cook becomes WBAP DFW news anchor
- Dallas Wings and KFAA 29 DFW create broadcast rights agreement
- WFAA flashback freezing temperatures - February 4, 1996
- Brianda Villegas joins WFAA 8 DFW
- Former DFW news director now TEGNA Chief Content Officer
- CBS News Texas is building something weather related
- FOX 4 KDFW studio tour
- Erin Moran leaves CBS News Texas

HOUSTON

The Houston Chronicle announced Bao Ong will be its new restaurant critic.

Opinion Editor Lisa Falkenberg to become Chronicle Senior Columnist.

The Houston Chronicle has named reporters Ryan Nickerson and Shakari Briggs to new reporting positions that will cover how local government is working — or failing to work — for residents in Houston and the entire metro area.

97.9 The Box KBXX morning co-host Keisha Nicole has also added middays replacing the cancelled “Amanda Seales Show”.

Interview with D’Artagnan Bebel, the Senior Vice President/General Manager for FOX26 TV & My20 TV and the GM & Head of Programming for FOX SOUL.

FOX 26 KRIV weekend anchor Tom Zizka celebrates 37 years in the TV biz.

KPRC 2 reporter Re'Chelle Turner celebrates 10 years in the TV industry.

Consumer reporter Heather Sullivan celebrates five years with FOX 26 KRIV.

Amanda Stevenson joins KPRC 2 as a producer.

Former 101 KLOL DJ Chuck Akers announced he is now the 7pm to midnight weekend jock for The Eagle 106.9/107.5 KHPT-KGLK Houston.

Kevin Olmsted joins the KPRC 2 as a creative marketing producer from KHOU 11.

Reporter Clare Amari leaves the Houston Landing.

Gow Media has upgraded its automation system to Broadcast Electronics' (BE) new AudioVAULT 11.

SAN ANTONIO

Reported layoffs hit KENS 5.

Mark Shecterle Moves from Tulsa to Lead CMG San Antonio.

Jenny Law joins 101.0 KONO as APD/midday host.

KSAT 12 to introduce new daily streaming sports show.

- Karina Hollingsworth joins News 4 San Antonio
- Ernie Zuniga joins KSAT 12 San Antonio
- KENS 5 San Antonio celebrates 75 years
- Mia Montgomery to leave KSAT San Antonio
- Jessica Coombs to leave KENS 5 San Antonio
- Ernie Zuniga debuts KSAT "Pickup Lines" with special guests
- Robert Price leaving News 4 San Antonio

AUSTIN

Latino 97.1 Austin Returns To Spanish CHR.

Morning anchor Hannah Rucker celebrates five years with KVUE.

KVET Takes The Format Lead In Austin.

- Hearst to buy Austin American-Statesman, now covering Austin, Houston and San Antonio
- Fred Cantú to retire from CBS Austin after 53 year broadcasting career

AROUND TEXAS

Morning anchor John-Thomas Kobos celebrates 14 years ago at KIII Corpus Christi.

Oklahoma Hospitality Club honors KFDX Wichita Falls anchor Emily Faith.

KBTX Bryan-College Station evening anchor Rusty Surette voted Best TV Personality for 2024 in BCS by Bryan Broadcasting.

Tre Sanchez joins KFDM 6 Beaumont as a Multimedia Journalist.

Jason Freund leaves NewsWest 9 KWES Midland-Odessa to become a Multimedia Journalist for WSLS 10 Roanoke, Virginia.

Weekend anchor Jack Kessler celebrates five years with KAMR Local 4 News Amarillo.

Sydni Walker joins KCEN 6 Waco-Temple-Killeen as a reporter.

Reporter Sydney Ferguson is leaving KFDM 6/FOX 4 Beaumont for KAKE 10 Wichita, Kansas.

Devyn Shea, host of East Texas Now on KLTV, is leaving the station.

- Sophia Ridley joins KBTX Bryan-College Station
- Baylee Bates adds KCEN 5, 6, and 10pm anchor duties
- KRIS Corpus Christi's new morning TV anchors are married!
- Darrell Franklin promoted to KFDX news director
- Alan Shoemaker spotted in the 956
- DeAnna Giles joins KLTV 7 Tyler
- Claydra Rhodes promoted to KBMT Beaumont evening co-anchor
- Mike Gillaspia named KIII 3NEWS Corpus Christi evening anchor
- Lee Baker leaves KVII after 37 years

REMEMBERING

Engineer Dale Edward Boren, 79, who retired from ABC13 KTRK Houston after 32 years of service, has died.

- Jim Carola of KILT fame has died
- Chauncy Glover's cause of death released by LA County

Wednesday, February 19, 2025

Chauncy Glover's cause of death released by LA County

The cause of death of former ABC13 Houston KTRK anchor and CBS Los Angeles stations KCBS 2 and KCAL 9 co-anchor Chauncy Glover, 39, has been determined.

In a press release issued today, the County of Los Angeles Department of Medical Examiner determined the cause of death for 39-year-old journalist and news anchor Chauncy Cortez Glover as acute intoxication by the combined effects of chloroethane and methamphetamine.

The manner of death is an accident.

Deadline reports that according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, chloroethane is a colorless gas used to numb the skin before medical procedures such as ear piercing and skin biopsies and as a treatment for sports injuries.

Glover was found unresponsive in his home on November 5, 2024, and death was pronounced by fire department personnel.

A deputy medical examiner completed an examination on November 6, 2024, and after the return of relevant tests and studies, the cause and manner of death were certified on February 19, 2025.

The Medical Examiner’s report is expected to be ready by the end of March.

- Chauncy Glover has died

- Chauncy Glover video tributes from across the US

- Chauncy Glover funeral service had ABC13 memories

- Chauncy Glover's Houston celebration of life

Wednesday, January 01, 2025

Wednesday, December 04, 2024

Mayra Moreno defends Spanish pronunciations on TV

Mayra Moreno has received much support from the media community after defending herself from an ABC13 KTRK Houston viewer, who posted on X about why she was pronouncing "Hispanic sounding names with a Hispanic accent?"

This after Moreno has been grieving the death of her former co-anchor, Chauncy Glover.

Moreno responded: "Spanish is my first language and I’m pronouncing it how it’s supposed to be pronounced in Spanish. I’m not trying to teach you Spanish and what do you mean by Hispanic sounding names? They are Hispanic names."

Spanish is my first language and I’m pronouncing it how it’s supposed to be pronounced in Spanish. I’m not trying to teach you Spanish 🤣 and what do you mean by Hispanic sounding names? They are Hispanic names. https://t.co/ETiWHasnuK
— Mayra Moreno ABC13 (@MayraABC13) November 25, 2024

Moreno later posted on X: "Imagine what Elma Barrera went through back then. She signed off on air rolling her R's...Love how proud she was!"

Moreno and Barrera are not the only Channel 13 reporters and anchors to deal with this.

In 2012, former ABC13 anchor Minerva Perez guest posted on the Mike McGuff Blog addressing this very issue:

"From the beginning of my career in a small Rio Grande Valley market, which was 95% Latino and from where all my family hails, I was questioned about the way I used a Spanish pronunciation of my name, correctly and accurately rolling the rrrr’s in both my first and last names: Minerva Pérez...sacrosanct where I come from.

My nickname as a kid was Minnie, Minnie Mouse and Mini Skirt. Would viewers take me seriously if I used nicknames? I was supposed to come across as a serious Journalist.

After leaving the Valley, and moving to the mid-size market of San Antonio and away from family and friends, the catty comments started coming. Some of my colleagues, especially, laughed and sniped behind my back. I knew it and I ignored it. My news director brought me in and said 'perhaps you should consider the way you say your name.' I ignored him. I refused to homogenize my name and identity for the sake of my job and instead stayed true to my heritage. It was the decade of the Hispanics, after all.

Several markets later, and arriving in the 2nd largest TV Market in the country of Los Angeles, the hate or bullying heated up. It was there, the biggest Latino market next to Mexico City that the hate mail started arriving. 'You’re too Latina,' one cowardly and anonymous person wrote. Another suggested I should 'go back to México!' As Anchor Jen openly told the author of her egregious email and her viewers, 'you don’t know me.' Little did my haters know I am a 4th generation Texan, whose family goes back hundreds of years…before Tejas was taken by the Texians. The common Tejano saying goes, 'the border crossed us.' We still own part of a major land grant.

Consistently, some colleagues in all the TV markets where I worked, friends, I wrongly thought, generated some of this bullying. In one market, one co-anchor with an air of much superiority, turned to me and pointedly asked, 'Why do you say your name that way?' A not-so-kind, icy query. Another one would encounter me in the hallway and loudly mimic me, 'Minerrrrrva Pérrrrrez.' I laughed as his insulting words. Another one said the way I pronounced my name “jarred the ear.” Jarred the ear? This, while they all went out of their way to correctly pronounce Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. They went crazy with French names. Latino names? Not so much.

Conversely, I also received a lot of praise from Latinos in every community in which I worked. They loved that I represented them proudly in what they considered a not-so-welcoming “white world.” To see me on TV was to see themselves."

READ THE FULL POST HERE

A few years later in 2015, Perez published more about her career in 'I GOTTA STORY: My 30 Years in TV News' that spanned from the RGV to KTLA 5 Los Angeles. One of my favorite stories is how Perez is sampled in the U2 Desire (Hollywood Remix) from her LA TV time!

Monday, December 02, 2024