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KXAS-TV (channel 5) is a television station licensed to Fort Worth, Texas, United States, serving the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex.It is owned and operated by the NBC television network through its NBC Owned Television Stations division alongside Telemundo outlet KXTX-TV (channel 39).
In June 2012, NBCUniversal announced plans to construct a new 75,000-square-foot (6,968 m 2) facility in Fort Worth, located at the CentrePort Business Park on the former site of Amon Carter Field, to house KXAS, KXTX, and NBCUniversal's other local operations, including the Dallas news bureau operated by NBC News.
Bill Hanrahan (1918–1996) announcer for NBC and for NBC Nightly News, Huntley/Brinkley, John Chancellor, and the Tom Brokaw eras. Guest announcer for Saturday Night Live. Danny Dark (1938–2004) announcer; Ray Forrest (1916–1999) radio staff announcer for NBC, pioneered TV announcing and news broadcasting
After graduating, McCaa worked in Omaha for more than seven years in anchoring and reporting, with WOWT-TV, an NBC affiliate. In 1984, he came to WFAA to work in the Fort Worth newsroom as a reporter. He was later promoted to chief of the newsroom. He then transferred to the Dallas newsroom. He became the weekend news anchor, then news manager.
Within the first year, the new anchor team catapulted to number one in the ratings. It was the most successful news team in Dallas-Fort Worth television history. [2] Johnson remained at WFAA-TV for more than 12 years. In 1985, Johnson left her anchor position with WFAA-TV to start her own business. [2] (Her last night on WFAA-TV being March 2 ...
Moore came west with the team's move to Oakland in 1968, remaining the team's principal radio/TV voice through the 1977 season. He was hired by NBC to announce the Saturday Game of the Week with Wes Parker and Maury Wills. He also was the announcer with Parker on the USA Network's USA Thursday Game of the Week. He came out of retirement in 1988 ...
In May 1993, KDFW became the first television station in Dallas–Fort Worth to launch a weekend morning newscast, with the debut of a two-hour Saturday broadcast from 8 to 10 a.m. (the program—which, uniformly with the weekday morning newscasts and formerly titled News 4 Texas Morning Edition, was re-titled Good Day Dallas [now Fox 4 Good ...
WFAA (channel 8) is a television station licensed to Dallas, Texas, United States, serving as the ABC affiliate for the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex.It is owned by Tegna Inc. alongside Decatur-licensed independent station KFAA-TV (channel 29), which provides a full-market high definition simulcast of WFAA's main channel on its UHF physical channel assigned to channel 8.8, due to long-term ...