KOCO Ups Bryan Keating To Sports Director

Hearst-owned ABC affiliate KOCO Oklahoma City (DMA 41) has promoted Bryan Keating to sports director. Keating has been the station’s weekend sports anchor since February 2012. He succeeds Bob Irzyk who left KOCO on Aug. 1.

Before joining KOCO, Keating was sports director at KTXS Abelene, Texas, and weekend sports anchor at KAVU Victoria, Texas.

He graduated from Oklahoma State University in 2002 with a degree in political science. He continued his studies at the University of Colorado where he earned a degree in broadcast news. There he got his start in sports reporting, working on CU Sportsmag. He also interned for KOCO and worked as a contributing writer for the local high school football annual Oklahoma Pigskin Preview.