Analia Fiestas, Carlos Zapata & Karuska Matos To Anchor ‘Noticias Telemundo Texas’

Analia Fiestas, Carlos Zapata and Karuska Matos

Analia Fiestas and Carlos Zapata have been named news anchors and Karuska Matos will serve as meteorologist for Noticias Telemundo Texas, a new weekday newscast that will air across Telemundo-owned KXTX Dallas, KTMD Houston, KVDA San Antonio, KTLM Harlingen-McAllen and KTDO El Paso, beginning Sept. 26. The newscast will air Monday to Friday from 5 to 7 a.m.

With this role, Fiestas, expands her current news anchor duties for KXTX’s midday newscasts, and will be joined by Zapata, former WNJU New York news anchor. Matos joins the Noticias Telemundo Texas anchor team from KXLN Houston.

The newscast’s reporter roster will include Telemundo reporters from KXTX, KTMD, KVDA, KTLM and KTDO, with each delivering reports and breaking news updates from their communities. Matos will deliver real-time weather updates for each community and expand on climate and weather storytelling. Fiestas and Zapata will delve into important stories of the day, explaining their impact locally and statewide.

Fiestas, a native of Peru, is a bilingual, award-winning journalist. She has been part of Telemundo for seven years. She joined KXTX in 2016 as reporter, after working as a news reporter associate for the Telemundo Station Group’s Miami bureau for a year. Two years after joining KXTX, Fiestas was named news anchor of the station’s midday newscasts. Fiestas also contributes to NBC O&O KXAS Dallas newscasts. While at KXTX, she has delivered breaking news anchor coverage for Texas’ tornado outbreaks in March of this year, the Arlington High School shooting and has reported about the region’s February 2021 electric grid collapse and deadly winter storms, among others.

Before joining NBCUniversal in 2015, she worked as an associate producer for WPLG Miami. She is the recipient of two Lone Star Emmy Awards in the categories of best “Morning Newscast” and “Breaking News Coverage.”

Zapata, a native of Colombia who began his journalism career in Ecuador, is an award-winning bilingual journalist. He has spent nine years working at Telemundo-owned stations and returns to KXTX after serving as reporter for Telemundo 47 WNJU New York for nearly two years. While at KXTX from 2013 to 2020, he worked his way up from video journalist to news anchor. While at KXTX, he has covered numerous breaking news stories and was dispatched to the Texas-Mexico Border on special assignment to report on the humanitarian crisis. At WNJU, Zapata continued to report on US-Mexico border issues. Zapata is the recipient of a 2022 national GLAAD Media Award for his reporting work and contributions to WNJU’s June 2021 special LGBTQ Pride: 52 years of Struggle and Evolution.

He has received 14 Lone Star Emmy Awards, including two awards in the categories of best “News Anchor” and “News Reporter” and was recently nominated for 12 New York Emmy Awards, including best “Live Reporter” and “Features/Human Interest Reporter.” Before joining NBCUniversal, he worked at WUVF and WANA in Fort Myers-Naples, Fla., as news anchor and reporter; D’Latinos Magazine as a columnist and contributor, and for several TV and radio stations in Ecuador.

Matos, a native of Puerto Rico, joins the Telemundo stations and NBCUniversal for the first time after working as meteorologist for KXLN Houston and AccuWeather. At AccuWeather, she created weather forecasts for cities across the United States and Latin America. She earned a bachelor’s of science degree in physical sciences from the University of Puerto Rico at Mayaguez with certification in Environmental Chemistry and Meteorology and Education.

As part of her collegiate academic expertise, she interned at the Argonne National Laboratory to study the public’s interest of air quality and meteorology related to the construction/operation of Spent Nuclear Fuel facilities, was part of NASA’s University Research and Education Project at the Kennedy Space Center, which prepared college students to engage gifted, children with special needs and first-time English-language learners with STEM subjects, and while at the U.S. National Weather Service’s Caribbean Tsunami Warning Program, she analyzed the performance of sea level sensors along the Caribbean.