KHOU Ups David Paul To Chief Meteorologist
Belo’s CBS affiliate KHOU Houston (DMA 10) announced Friday that veteran meteorologist David Paul has been promoted to the role of chief meteorologist effective immediately. Paul joined KHOU in 1996 […]
KHOU Ups Miles Cathey To Sales Director
The Belo CBS affiliate in Houston promotes him from director of local sales.
CBS affiliate KHOU Houston (DMA 10) is adding Mia Gradney as the station’s newest reporter. A Houston native and Emmy-winning journalist, Gradney previously worked in the market as a main […]
Belo CBS affiliate KHOU Houston announced that reporter Courtney Zubowski will join the station’s investigative unit, the I-Team, on July 1. Zubowski joined KHOU in January 2008. Prior to that, Zubowski […]
The Belo CBS affiliate is teaming with CultureMap to beef up its newscasts and expand its digital offerings through links to CultureMap content.
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How To Make Social Media A Revenue Stream
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KHOU Makes Two Staff Appointments
Mike Smith joins the CBS affiliate as director of local programming and production, while Dale Lockett is promoted to director of creative services and community marketing.
Anchor Lily Jang Moving From KCPQ To KHOU
Social Embed Makes KHOU News Stickier
Belo’s Houston CBS affiliate has embedded Facebook and Twitter features into its iPad news app, giving users a full mobile social media experience and enticing them to stay with the app much longer than the average three-minute visit.
KHOU Adds Rekha Muddaraj To News Staff
Belo-owned CBS affiliate KHOU Houston (DMA 10) announced Wednesday that Rekha Muddaraj will join the KHOU 11 news team in January as weekend co-anchor alongside Vicente Arenas. She will also […]
Serious Weather Is Serious Business
Meteorologists in the hurricane-prone Gulf and Atlantic coastal areas say they’re conscious of the power they wield and try to be careful with it, realizing the profound impact severe weather news and related promotion can have not only on people, but also on local economies. They also stress the importance of social media as an adjunct to broadcasting, contending that in a weather emergency, television screens are not the only place that citizens will be looking for critical information. This is the third in a series of articles that will appear this week and that collectively constitute a TVNewsCheck Special Report on Severe Weather News. The first two stories in the series are below.
The Belo CBS affiliate will launch the new afternoon newscast on Aug. 1 with anchor Len Cannon and weather with Chita Johnson.
Keeping It Simple Key To TV Online Ad Sales
Christine DiStadio, KHOU Houston director of digital media, told attendees at the Borrell Associates Local Online Advertising Conference that having the ability to help clients tie together online, mobile and social media in a way that has meaning for them is key to her TV station’s success in the digital space.
Belo CBS affiliate KHOU Houston (DMA 10) said today that it is “the first station in Houston to offer an interactive television widget for Internet-connected TV sets using the Yahoo! […]
Philip Bruce, NPR’s deputy national editor, is returning to Houston to head news opreations at the Belo CBS affiliate.
