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KXAS Anchor Meredith Land Adjusts On-Air Schedule
NBC-owned KXAS Dallas (DMA 5) anchor Meredith Land announced that she will leave the NBC 5 News at 10 p.m. anchor chair after nine years to spend more time with her family. She will continue to co-anchor NBC 5 News at 5 and 6 p.m., Monday-Friday. Land’s final 10 p.m. newscast will occur on Nov. […]
KXAS Ups Laura Harris To Weekday Mornings
Morning Anchor Marc Fein Leaving KXAS
KTVT, KDFW, KXAS Post November Wins
KXAS Dallas Names John Stone VP Of News
The Dallas NBC O&O promotes him from interim ND. He’s been with the station since 2017 and has worked in news for over 20 years, including stints at WABC, WBZ and WHDH.
KXAS Getting Repack Help From T-Mobile
T-Mobile and the Dallas NBC O&O announced an agreement to accelerate the repacking of the station’s 600 MHz spectrum in North Texas and surrounding areas. KXAS will move to its new frequency in late May, more than a year earlier than the FCC deadline of June 21, 2019. The agreement allows KXAS to move to its new frequency and maximize its coverage area earlier than anticipated.
KXAS Adds ‘Texas Lightning Truck’ To Fleet
KXAS Forecaster David Finfrock Stepping Down
Nexstar, NBC’s KXAS To Ring In ’18 In 20 Markets
NBC/Telemundo Stations Earn 61 Texas Emmys
Stations across the country are recognized by the Radio Television Digital News Association for outstanding journalism. Among the many winners are KXAS Dallas and WWBT Richmond, Va., for overall excellence in large market and small market television, respectively.
KXAS Triples Down On Weather With S-Band
WEWS Reporter Homa Bash Leaving For Dallas
KTUL Anchor Kristin Dickerson Moving To KXAS
New Xmtrs Have KXAS-KXTS Set For Repack, 3.0
Reporter Alice Barr Leaves KHOU For KXAS
Anchor Courtney Gilmore Leaving KPRC For KXAS
KXAS Adds Anchor-Reporter Cory Smith
NBCU’S Dallas Studios Get Green Recognition
NBCUniversal’s state-of-the art broadcast and multimedia facility — The Studios at DFW — which is located in Fort Worth’s CentrePort Business Park and houses NBC- and Telemundo-owned KXAS and KXTX, has been awarded a Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) Silver New Construction certification by the U.S. Green Building Council. The Studios at DFW, a 75,000-square-foot […]
The former executive news director of KING Seattle is tapped by NBC to succeed Susan Tully as news chief.
NBC-owned KXAS Dallas and the Dallas Morning News are the winners of RTDNA’s 2015 Gannett Foundation Al Neuharth Award for Investigative Journalism. The two won for their Injured Heroes, Broken Promises series of stories that focused on the treatment of soldiers by the Army’s Warrior Transition Units, designed to help service members who have suffered physical and psychological wounds adjust to civilian life.
KXAS, Paper Partner On Investigative Project
Dallas NBC O&O KXAS and the Dallas Morning News teamed up to investigate complaints of harassment by hundreds of soldiers at the Army’s Warrior Transition Units that were designed to help the injured heal. In the process of documenting the poor treatment of Army veterans the two media outlets learned about how to work together.
The U.S.’s first Ebola patient in Dallas may have slipped through early screening, but The Dallas Morning News (in partnership with NBC O&O KXAS) isn’t allowing any holes in its digital coverage of the fast-moving story. David Duitch, editor of DallasNews.com, says that the newsroom has mobilized fast with an Ebola landing page and a salvo of beat reporting, social coverage and online videos in addition to maps and timelines.
Rentrak Adds Three More NBC Stations
The ratings service signs KNBC Los Angeles, KXAS Dallas-Fort Worth and WTVJ Miami-Fort Lauderdale.
