KXAS Dallas

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 […]

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.

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.

The ratings service signs KNBC Los Angeles, KXAS Dallas-Fort Worth and WTVJ Miami-Fort Lauderdale.

The National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences unveiled nominations for the 35th annual News and Documentary Emmy Awards.Regional nominees are WTHR, WFAA, WISN, KXTX, WNBC, KING, KNXV and KXAS. PBS led networks with 43 nominations followed by CBS with 42. The awards will be presented Sept. 30 during a ceremony at Frederick P. Rose Hall at New York’s Lincoln Center.

James Moroney, publisher of The Dallas Morning News, says the pact inked last week between the A.H. Belo-owned paper and NBC O&O KXAS is about audience building and and creating joint reporting projects. Moroney adds that revenue sharing opportunities may come later.

The Dallas Morning News and NBC O&O KXAS Dallas (DMA 5) have formed a media partnership that will include the newspaper, dallasnews.com, nbcdfw.com and local newscasts on KXAS to start. Additional platforms and projects are anticipated in the future, according to KXAS. In addition to general news, the two media organizations will join together on content like weather, politics and breaking news. Readers and viewers will begin to see the first efforts of the partnership after Jan. 1, 2014

NBC O&O KXAS-TV Dallas-Fort Worth (DMA 5) is donating three decades of historical news film to The University of North Texas Libraries, Denton, Texas. Thousands of donated film reels from […]

The NBC O&O, which TVNewsCheck reported on last week, plans to unveil its newly designed set to viewers in the Dallas market this weekend following Sunday Night Football. Last week on Playout, the technology blog of TVNewsCheck, we published photos of conference rooms, newsrooms and control rooms from inside The Studios At DFW. This week, we have photos of the brand new news set.

Christmas came early for the staff at the NBC Dallas O&O and its co-owned Telemundo outlet on Sept. 30, when the ribbon was cut on a brand new, 75,000-square-foot complex located in a business park near Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport. Among the wish-list items the staff got are news editing flexibility, traffic and sales finally in the same building as news and technical flexibility to handle all the various feeds, especially since everything from the studio to the field is now in high definition.

The latest ENG technology is allowing TV stations to go live straight from the heart of breaking news, spurring new opportunity and creativity. Plus, the gear’s inexpensive cost means stations don’t have to flip a coin to decide where to send a satellite truck. And while problems of latency and cellular availabliity exist, its advantages are making a huge difference in how live, local stories get covered.

The NBC O&O has released an app for the 50th anniversary of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, that includes extensive archives and rare archived footage from 1963.