Exclusives
For ABC Stations, Collecting Crime Data Charts A Path To Good News
ABC Owned Stations’ Neighborhood Safety Tracker, an interactive website and app that collects and presents public record data from local police stations, has helped quash stereotypes and unearth positive community reporting. Read the complete story here.
To be sure, Houston is in a good place these days. The oil industry that fuels the local economy is on solid footing and the region for years has worked to diversify its business portfolio, with the likes of health care, aerospace and the legal profession growing. And the competition among stations for news audiences is robust. ABC owns KTRK and Graham Media has NBC affiliate KPRC. Fox owns KRIV-KTXH, and Tegna has CBS outlet KHOU. Univision owns KXLN and Telemundo holds KTMD.
KTXH, KRIV, KIAH, KFTH, KXLN, KTRK, KPRC, KHOU, KTMD and KUHT are now broadcasting with ATSC 3.0 technology.
ABC-owned KTRK Houston is hosting an exclusive streaming town hall, Action 13: Astroworld Festival Tragedy, today, Nov. 11 (7-8 p.m. CT), to discuss the tragedy and update the viewers with the latest […]
Art Rascon, who joined ABC-owned KTRK Houston as an anchor in 1998, will leave the station at the end of the year. He has co-anchored the midday and 5 p.m. […]
New Jobs Posted To TVNewsCheck
New jobs posted to TVNewsCheck’s Media Job Center include an opening for a news producer at KTRK, the ABC/Walt Disney Television O&O in Houston.
ABC-owned KTRK Houston today named Rita Garcia to co-anchor its weekday morning newscast, beginning Monday, July 26. Garcia joins the morning Eyewitness Team from 4:30 to 7 a.m. with co-anchor […]
ABC promotes him from head of content and digital strategy at its Houston O&O to lead all journalism efforts there.
KTRK Hosts Two-Night Town Hall On Covid And Schools
KTRK Houston GM Contracts Coronavirus
Wendy Granato, president-GM of ABC O&O KTRK Houston, says she tested positive for COVID-19 after contracting it from her 22-year-old daughter, Frankie. Wendy and Frankie are both working from home and said they have made it through the worst part, and are feeling much better.
ABC-owed KTRK Houston (DMA 8) will present a one-hour virtual town hall on Thursday, June 4, at 7-8 p.m. to discuss the relationship between law enforcement and communities of color. Hosted […]
