KTMD (Telemundo Houston), part of NBCUniversal Local’s Telemundo Station Group, has a new anchor team of Crystal Ayala and Ingrid Barrera for weekday editions of Noticiero Telemundo Houston at 4, 4:30, 5, 10 and 10:30 p.m.
Ayala joined KTMD in 2015 as consumer investigative reporter and a year later was elevated to the station’s news anchor team. Prior to joining KTMD, Ayala worked as an anchor and reporter for Univision in Houston, Dallas and Denver. She also worked for Univision’s national newscast and their affiliate news division in Miami. She began her career in her native Puerto Rico.
Ayala has won numerous Lone Star Emmy and Society of Professional Journalists awards. She was named 2024 On-Air Personality of the Year by Media Alliance of Houston. Ayala earned a Bachelor of Arts in journalism from the University of Puerto Rico and a master’s in journalism from Florida International University.
Barrera joined Telemundo Houston in November 2017 as anchor of the station’s 4 and 4:30 p.m. newscasts then adding duties during a new midday newscast at 11 a.m. In 2021 she helped launch El Break, KTMD’s newscast for FAST channels, serving as its first digital anchor. Prior to KTMD, Barrera was a news correspondent in Telemundo’s Mexico City bureau. Before that, she was a news anchor for Mexico’s Grupo Imagen Multimedia and Televisa.
Barrera is the recipient of multiple regional Emmy Awards and her work has been recognized with a Premio Nacional de Periodismo, honoring outstanding Mexican journalists for their work, quality and commitment to the citizen’s right to be informed. She earned a bachelor’s in communication sciences from the Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey.
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