During the 19801982 run of the NBC soap opera. He left Channel 2 in January 2007 and joined the Houston Dynamo a month later as the director. A valued part of our KPRC 2 News team, Christine joined us in February 2019 and has gone on to anchor our Noon & 4:00 p.m. newscasts, also. This is a carousel. Rose-Ann Aragon announced last night she is leaving her reporter position with KPRC 2 Houston. In addition, he has freelanced for a number of publications including the Los Angeles Times and Dallas Morning News. joined KIAH-TV in July 2000 as an anchor and reporter. Sylvia Perez (1985-1989): Weekend Anchor/Health Reporter (formerly with ABC 7 WLS-TV Chicago, IL & FOX 32 WFLD-TV Chicago, IL) John Quinones (1975-1978) [now with ABC News] Jacque Reid (1997-2000) [later with BET Nightly News] Janet Shanilan (1995-1997) [currently with NBC News] joined KTRK-TV in 1976 as a reporter and later an anchor. Rita Garcia joined ABC13 on July 26, hosting weekday morning news from 4:30 a.m. to 7 a.m. Texas native Rita Garcia returned to Houston television on July 26 to host ABC13s weekday morning news with co-anchor Samica Knight and meteorologist Elita Loresca from 4:30 a.m. to 7 a.m. Garcia, who replaces longtime anchor Tom Koch, had once worked at Fox 26 before moving to Los Angeles to anchor the Good Day LA morning show on Fox 11. Before that, she received her journalism degree from Hope College in 2008 and after graduating, worked for WZZM 13 On Your Side News in Grand Rapids, Michigan before moving to Denver, Colorado to join KUSA's 9NEWS. Anoushah Rasta Anousah Rasta joined KPRC-TV as a reporter in October 2014 and later as a weekend morning anchor. Famous journalist Sofia is leaving the KPRC after 7 years of attachment with the channel. This race was especially notable as the winner was Dale Earnhardt, Jr., whose father died at the same track in the final lap of the 2001 Daytona 500 only months before. 12 pick, Tips for bringing your dog or cat on a flight, West Texans share apocalyptic photos of after massive dust storm, This Houston rodeo food vendor wants you to eat his rattlesnake. Here's what they had to say. I was also told Richardson said something about leaving during KPRC's last "Sports Sunday" show. Yesterday, my social feeds were full of the recently posted KPRC 2 "Space Reporter" job opening. Longtime anchor Freeman, signed off on Friday for the last time after 25 years in the broadcasting business, including 16 years at KPRC 2. Watch: Astros SP Luis Garcia debuts new windup after rule changes, Oops! Outside of TV news, Aragon also works with the UniPro - Pilipino American Unity for Progress as a Texas advisor. Joined KPRC 2 in October. The station continues to hold the rights to the series until September 2011 and has not subleased the program to another station, leaving the program airing without a critical top 10 market. Richardson credits her interest in reporting from her father, who was a stay-at-home dad due to an illness. She left CW 39 in June 2006 for Chicago's WBBM-TV. In May 1997, he left Channel 26 and joined KPRC-TV as a sports anchor and reporter. In late 2016, she announced she was leaving the station. The newest addition to the KPRC news team hails from Nashville, Tennessee. According to a user of the Daly Planet blog, the first 30 minutes of the 2007 NFL Kickoff game between the New Orleans Saints and theIndianapolis Colts was shown with default audio in Spanish rather than English.Scroll down to the "comments" section of the page KPRC inadvertenly aired the secondary audio program provided by Telemundo (also owned by NBC's parent company, NBC Universal). Hecker is now a news personality, according to her social media accounts. In December 2013, he announced he was leaving CW 39 to become news director for Dallas' KDAF-TV. He is currently a communications and media training instructor for The Ammerman Experience. Jake Reiner is trading one H-Town for another. Anchors Christine Nol and Lauren Freeman each recently announced their departures from Houston's KPRC 2. This was a fact not lost on O'Brien, who visited various parts of Houston including the main bus terminal to watch an episode of his own show with Houstonians in a classic and hilarious skit. Pasted as rich text. While at KOCO 5, she covered the I-40 bridge collapse in Webbers Falls, Oklahoma. Hurst later became the anchor for the evening and night newscasts. *Below is a photo of NBC 2 's studio set with the downtown skyline sprawled out, which consisted from 1988 until 1995. How the Houston Zoo moved its flock of flamingos to a new home, Why the Texans should take Bijan Robinson with the No. Ivory Hecker left Fox 26 on June 15, a day after going off-script during a live broadcast at 5 p.m. to accuse Fox Corporation of censorship. "I'm a huge Dodgers fan. News anchor Lauren Freeman: "My New. Even though a lot of people looked at my rise in news as being attributed to the connections that come from my father, I felt that I had a chip on my shoulder to be like, 'You know what? There, she broadcast live from the 2016 Rio Olympics and the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. https://mikemcguff.blogspot.com/2019 . "KPRC was the only top 10 (market) station that I got a look from and the only one that offered me a gig and I was absolutely floored by that," he said. In 1994, when Post-Newsweek Stations bought KPRC, the newscasts were rechristened "News 2 Houston". She not only leaving the channel but she entirely is taking leave from the television world and wants to have family time. Due to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) VHF freeze, KPRC, the only Houston television station for four more years, carried secondary affiliations withCBS, ABC and DuMont[3] until KGUL-TV (now KHOU-TV) and KXYZ (now KTRK-TV) signed on and respectively took over CBS and ABC full time. Rasta previously worked at Los Angeles' KABC-TV and was a weekend anchor for El Paso's KTSM-TV. The competitiveness is also magnified by Nielsen Media's Local People Meters (LPMs), which were introduced to the Houston market in the Summer 2007 to measure ratings. Aragon joined KPRC in May 2017 from WCPO 9 Cincinnati, Ohio where she was a multi-media journalist (MMJ). radio station News 92 FM as a reporter. In later years, it was delayed to air various programs such as Ricki Lake's talk show at 11:35 p.m., followed by Access Hollywood, a repeat of the 10:00 news, and Jenny Jones, which delayed Late Night to 2:40 a.m. Baseball was something I was passionate about," he said. I have to assume other NBC stations took similar versions of this set. Likewise it did not carry the short primetime run of the poker series Face the Acein August 2009 (along with WDIV and Milwaukee's WTMJ-TV), pre-empting both episodes with St. Jude Children's Research Hospital programming. before going on to do real estate and work on the "Linda Lorelle If we've missed any or if you know what they're currently up to, please let us know in the comments section. On Aug. 19, 2017, she finally left Channel 26 to join Texas Southern University as vice president of university advancement. Gundetection data raises concernsAftermath | West Texas town looks like Mars after dust stormGrind | Houston is the No. Aragon's last day on air with KPRC will be Saturday August 27, 2022. On Nov. 18, 2017, she announced she was leaving Channel 2 and heading back home to California. And no, it's not because he had to jump out of a vehicle like Bond and had to. Kris has been a valued member of our news team on two different occasions. Here is a part of what Aragon wrote on Facebook. 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After ten years on the job, Cerota left for KPRC 2 in an anchor/reporter position. The television station's call letters were changed to match its radio cousin on July 3, 1950. Report: Houston is the No. KPRC 2 has a wealth of current and former talent, says KPRC 2 Vice President & General Manager Phil Lane. Reiner has dabbled in film acting before, largely with small roles in his dad's movies, including "Flipped," "Being Charlie" and the upcoming "Shock and Awe," starring Tommy Lee Jones, Woody Harrelson and James Marsden. http://www.bizjournals.com/houston/stories/2002/08/19/focus2.html, http://www.blackenterprise.com/mag/a-joint-venture/, http://www.linkedin.com/pub/bob-nicholas/6b/361/8bb. Thank You, Kris you will be missed by our viewers and your co-workers. He figured it would be something along the lines of, "Of course, he wants to go into acting. My family is of Jamaican descent, but . No word on where Richardson is heading to. Beyond career considerations and love of the Dodgers, Reiner says it's also a matter of just wanting to go home. Rasta previously worked at Los Angeles' KABC-TV and was a weekend anchor for. Two of KRPC 2's most beloved anchors, Christine Nol and Lauren Freeman, both recently announced their exits from the Houston news station. Kriss last day will be February 2, 2022. I'll focus on innovation, tech and research - another major passion of mine. The station operates on digital channel 35, but its PSIP virtual channel is 2. She is currently the news anchor for WUSA-TV in Washington D.C. joined KHOU-TV in December 1984 as a sports anchor and reporter. (Houston is now the seventh largest TV media market, according to Nielsen.). Every day for two and a half hours, Conflenti hosts live news, covering breaking news and special initiatives. We want to thank Christine Nol for her hard work and professionalism, says KPRC 2 Vice President & General Manager Phil Lane. Powered by Invision Community. Six 1 most stressful city for workers in U.S.Change | Crosby ISD adopts 4-day school week, a first in Harris County. He left the station on March 24, 2017 and is now anchoring at Memphis' WREG-TV. Me & @KHOULauren debut Sun AM show in 1/2020, so its fitting we worked 1 last time. He is now an anchor/correspondent with NBC. However the agreement with the Miss Texas organization was made before NASCAR and NBC came to their agreement to carry races in 1999, and despite the wide breadth of time to reschedule, Miss Texas refused to renegotiate or renege on the agreement and allow KPRC to carry the pageant at a new time or on tape delay to accommodate one of NASCAR's tentpole events. Here's what Lauren Freeman said about leaving KPRC 2. It was placed on Comcast cable 12 instead. Use Next and Previous buttons to navigate. He co-anchored news from 6.30- 9am with Abby Eden. Dave Froehlich joined KHOU as a morning news anchor in November after 8 years anchoring Good Day Austin on Fox 7. A view of the KPRC tower in Houston in this undated drone image. In a Facebook post announcing his latest move, Froehlich cited proximity to family as an advantage to working in Houston television. Before that she was an MMJ/Reporter/Fill-In Anchor/Fill-in Producer for WEEK/WHOI-TV NBC News 25 ABC HOI-19 News Peoria, Illinois. The video includes recordings of her bosses saying she should not have asked about hydroxychloroquine in an interview with Dr. Joseph Varon, chief of staff at United Memorial Medical Center, who used the drug as part of a cocktail to treat COVID-19 patients. One of the most notorious pre-emption occurred on July 7, 2001 when KPRC did not air NBC Sports' live coverage of the NASCAR Nextel (then Winston) Cup Series Pepsi 400 from Daytona International Speedway. Previously, Nelson was a weathercaster for Albuquerque's KOAT-TV. Reporter Sally Mamdooh has left KPRC 2. At his retirement Archer was Houstons longest-running TV reporter on air and had helped cover major news events in the city for over four decades, ranging from natural disasters to political scandals. I think variations of it emerged elsewhere on other network affiliates around the same time in the mid or late 80s. I joined KPRC in April 2018 from CBS 11 in Dallas, where I worked as a reporter and fill-in anchor. During her nearly four years at KPRC, Nol covered the Tokyo Olympics, the Houston Astros in the 2021 World Series, as well as KPRC 2's "Bells for Abigail" series. Dominique Sachse, an Emmy Award-winning evening anchor for KPRC, announced at the end of September her departure from the station on Oct. 29. Returned to KPRC 2 in September 2021. FILE - A headshot of Steven Romo, a general assignments reporter with Houston's KTRK-TV. joined KPRC-TV as a reporter in May 1982. At KPRC, Conflenti is a news anchor, writer, and content producer. That did play on my mind, so I was like, 'Well, maybe I'll try this other avenue and see where it takes me.' Where is this clip from? Daniella Guzman will start at KPRC on Jan. 10, anchoring the 6 p.m. and 10 p.m. newscasts, replacing Dominique Sachse. Upload or insert images from URL. "I am so grateful for your love and support and endless kind messages. Previously, she was a community news and breaking news reporter for the Austin American-Statesman. Sometimes the local TV faces you've watched for a good number of years simply vanish from sight with no explanation. Before ABC13, Rascon had worked as a national correspondent for CBS News and as a reporter for ABC7 in Los Angeles, according to ABC13. weekend anchor. After ten years on the job, Cerota left for KPRC 2 in an anchor/reporter position. In July 2014, she left Channel 11. HOUSTON - These are the anchors and reporters who joined Houston's home for news in 2021. "We wish her all the best as she pursues her next chapter in life," Lane said. In Oct. 2019, after contract negotiations reportedly fell through, Reyna departed KPRC. Scholarship Fund." Christine Nol has announced she is leaving KPRC 2. On Aug. 1, 2017, she announced she would be leaving Channel 2 and going back to Colorado. He is currently the executive producer of investigations and special projects for Charlotte's WCNC-TV. I'll be focusing on health, book reviews, educational stories, parenting, and even some home decor.". Lee never did reasonably well with his station, and on June 1, 1950, KLEE-TV was purchased by the Hobby family, owners of the Houston Post, who had signed on KPRC radio in 1925 as Houston's first radio station. UPDATE: KBH currently served as US Ambassador to NATO under POTUS Donald Trump. U.S.Change | kprc reporters who have left ISD adopts 4-day school week, a General assignments reporter with Houston 's KPRC 2 President! 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