WTHR Debuts Spanish-Language Webcast

Dispatch Broadcast Group’s NBC affiliate WTHR Indianapolis (DMA 26) will launch a local Spanish-language news webcast on today. The webcast, 13 Eyewitness News en Español, is recorded in the WTHR News studios and provides news updates, weather and sports in Spanish every weekday, available at WTHR.com. The news webcast will be co-anchored by Marco Dominguez and Rossina Lazaneo.

President-GM John Cardenas said: “WTHR has a long history of being an innovator in local news. As Indiana’s News Leader, we feel it is vitally important to service our entire community. The Hispanic population continues to grow in Indianapolis, so we’re extremely pleased to be able to provide this valuable newscast on the Web.”

Anchor Marco Dominguez was born in Caracas, Venezuela and came to the United States in 1993. He served as an associate professor of TV production at Butler University for 10 years and as station manager for Univision in Indianapolis.

Born in Montevideo, Uruguay, Rossina Lazaneo came to the United States in 2003. She earned a master’s degree in journalism from Ball State University in Muncie, Indiana. She has also served as a producer at Univision in Indianapolis.