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.
Exclusives
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 investigation into the eight deaths at Travis Scott’s Astroworld Festival. Eyewitness News anchor Tom Abrahams hosts the town hall. Multiple individuals died due to the chaos at […]
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. newscast for 23 years. He said he looks forward to pursuing personal life endeavors that include religious and community service projects. “KTRK ABC13 has been […]
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 Samica Knight and meteorologist Elita Loresca. She replaces Tom Koch who retired from broadcasting after 39 years. Joining from KTTV Los Angeles, Garcia was an […]
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 by KTRK anchors Melanie Lawson and Chauncey Glover, the town hall will address the historic tension between the police and minority groups. The special will […]
Chauncy Glover, 3 p.m. and 6:30 p.m. anchor for ABC O&O KTRK Houston, announced that he has tested positive for coronaviurs and is self-quarantining.
Cynthia Cisneros Retiring From KTRK Houston
KTRK’s Art Rascon Collapses, Goes To Hospital
KRTK Ups Wendy Granato To President-GM
ABC’s Houston O&O chooses its VP of news to succeed Henry Florsheim who retired in July.
Mycah Hatfield Joins KTRK News Department
Deilia Ray Williams Named KTRK Creative Director
She moves from KOAT Albuquerque, N.M., to lead the ABC Houston O&O’s marketing creative services starting June 3.
KTRK GM Henry Florsheim To Retire
After 34 years with various ABC-owned television stations, KTRK Houston‘s general manager, Henry Florsheim, is retiring on July 1. He made the announcement earlier this week in an email to the staff.
