SNAPSHOTS PEOPLE YOU SHOULD KNOW IN MEDIA® EMAIL YOUR SNAPSHOT INFORMATION TO US TODAY AT: NEWS@HOUSTON-BUSINESSCONNECTIONS.COM • (832)212-8735! reporter and talk show host from 1980 to 1985. Prior to working at KTRH, Wayne was the Assistant News Director at KLBJ radio in Austin, Texas. --------------------------------------------------------
and attended nine elementary schools. She's thrilled to be back in southeast Texas and closer to her parents, whose latest stop is Alexandria, Louisiana. --------------------------------------------------------
Bob Allen Bob came to KTRK-TV in 1974 as Weekend Sports Director. Six months later he was named Sports Director of KTRK-TV. Bob has the longest tenure of any major market sports anchor in the country. Over the years Bob has gotten involved with many local charities, but devotes much of his time to Special Olympics and The Sunshine Kids. Bob has served on the Board of Directors of both organizations, and was recognized with the highest honor given to a volunteer of Special Olympics, the Spirit of Special Olympics Award. Bob also takes the Sunshine Kids, children with cancer on trips to Colorado, the Hill Country, and New Orleans, and produces specials on the kids so the kids can tell their story. Bob has won many awards and honors for his work, including several Best Sportscaster awards. In 1995 he was named Interfaith Charity's Mister Sportsman. In 2004 an independent poll published in the Houston Chronicle named Bob Houston's favorite sportscaster. --------------------------------------------------------
Tim Heller Tim Heller is the Chief Meteorologist at KTRK Channel 13, the ABC owned TV station in Houston, TX. He is a Certified Broadcast Meteorologist and member of the American Meteorological Society. His weathercasts have also earned the Seal of Approval from the National Weather Association. His coverage of weather over the past 25 years has earned Tim Heller several awards including three Emmy Awards, one for his coverage of Hurricane Ike in 2008. Tim has also received multiple Best Weathercast awards from the Houston Press Club, the Dallas Press Club and the Texas Associated Press. Before moving to Houston, Tim led the weather department at KDFW-TV in Dallas. He also worked at KGAN-TV in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, KRCG-TV in Jefferson City, Missouri, KDUB-TV in Dubuque, Iowa and WIFR-TV in Rockford, Illinois. He is a graduate of the Broadcast Meteorology Program at Mississippi State University, and he has a BA in Communications from Clarke College in Dubuque, Iowa. Tim is originally from Prairieburg, Iowa. He and his wife have three children. --------------------------------------------------------
Art Rascon Emmy award winning Reporter and Anchor Art Rascon joined KTRK-TV's 13 Eyewitness News in September 1998 to serve as anchor of the five o'clock news. Since joining ABC-13, Rascon has covered such major events wars and conflicts in Iraq, the Balkans, the Middle East and Central America, the
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U.S. Presidential elections, terrorist attacks both at home and abroad, and the Virginia Tech campus shooting. He has also covered natural disasters throughout the world, including reporting from Indonesia after the Tsunami. He comes to Houston from the CBS Network where he was a correspondent reporting on Haiti's civil unrest, Mexico's guerilla wars, Peru's hostage standoff, Cuba's downing of U.S. planes, TWA and other airline disasters, various school shootings, conflicts in Central America, hurricanes throughout the Caribbean and U-S, the Oklahoma City bombing, and a host of other international stories. From '89 to '94, Rascon was a reporter at KABC-TV in Los Angeles, covering such notable stories as the O.J. Simpson case, the Rodney King beating trial, the L.A. riots, the Branch Davidian stand-off, as well as earthquakes, fires and floods. Earlier, Rascon worked as a producer and reporter in San Antonio, El Paso, and Abilene and Salt Lake City. Rascon has reported from more than 50 countries, five continents, and nearly every state in the Union. He has been nominated for 25 Emmys and has won 19. He's received more than three dozen other local and national reporting awards, including two Edward R. Murrow awards, three National Association of Hispanic Journalists' awards, the International Rotary Club award, two Headliner Awards, the RTNDA Award, 15 Associated Press Reporting awards, and more than a dozen outstanding reporting awards from Press Clubs in Los Angeles and Houston. The National Hispanic Business Magazine named Rascon one of the 100 most influential Hispanics in America. In 2008 he was named Houston Father Of The Year. Rascon is a board member of Interfaith Of The Woodlands and is President of the Houston Association of Hispanic Media Professionals. He is a popular motivational speaker and active participant of charity groups. Rascon is a former Vice-President of the National Association of Hispanic Journalists, and former board member of The Radio Television News Directors Association. Born in El Paso, Texas, & reared in Denver, Colorado, Rascon is a graduate of Brigham Young University with studies of Humanities and European Politics in Madrid, Spain. He and his wife, Patti, have six children. --------------------------------------------------------
"Crimetracker" and tell us your story. Andy holds a Bachelor's degree in Journalism from the University of Northern Colorado. He is an award winning journalist, honored twice by the Texas Association of Broadcasters for his coverage of breaking news. Some of his career highlights include covering hurricanes Katrina & Rita in 2005. While in New Orleans, Andy filed reports from the Superdome as the mass evacuations got underway. He was also part of the press corps during former Texas Governor George W. Bush's 1998 re-election campaign. Andy covered the heartbreaking aftermath of the tornado that killed 25 people in Jarrell, Texas in May 1997. He also followed the Olympic Torch through Central Texas before the Summer games in 1996 and covered the Selena Murder Trial in 1995. Andy freelanced for NBC News and filed reports for the Geraldo Rivera Show. He comes to Eyewitness News from Los Angeles where he worked as a reporter. Prior to that, Andy worked at stations in Phoenix, Austin, and Abilene. A native New Yorker, Andy started and spent most of his television news career in Texas and is thrilled to call Houston home. --------------------------------------------------------
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Bob Slovak Bob Slovak joined the 13 Eyewitness News Sports team in 1998. Born in Dallas, Bob graduated from Stephen F. Austin University with a Bachelor of Arts in Communications. From his days as a Little Leaguer thru his High School career Bob always had a strong passion for sports. He's carried that passion over to his sports broadcasting career. Bob began his sportscasting career in Ada, Oklahoma at KTEN-TV. He's also worked in Beaumont at KFDM-TV, at KOTV-TV in Tulsa, and in Phoenix at KNXV-TV. He's been honored with Associated Press, Emmy and Edward R. Murrow Awards during his sports broadcasting career. He and his wife Nancy live in Sugar Land with their daughters Shea and Sadie and son Stone. --------------------------------------------------------
Meteorologist Casey Curry joined the Eyewitness Weather team in August 2006. Casey started her broadcast career in Victoria, Texas. Before moving to Houston, she worked in Kansas City, Denver, Indianapolis, Chicago, and Abilene, Texas. She is a graduate of the Broadcast Meteorology Program at Mississippi State and earned her Journalism degree at the University of Colorado. Casey is an "Army brat" and calls the world her home. She was born in Panama
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At Channel13 Eyewitness News, Medical Reporter Christi Myers has made a name for her professional work in the medical community -- not only in Houston but also around the state and the nation. She was recognized with a regional Emmy for her incredible story of a young father who donated part of his liver to his infant son. In addition to winning the Emmy, Christi has also received 11 other Emmy nominations plus a National Award for Excellence from the Epilepsy Foundation of America. But these are not the only organizations that have recognized her work. She has also received more than 100 awards from groups such as the Texas Public Health Association, Texas Medical Association, Texas AP Broadcasters, Houston Press Club, Harris County Medical Society, American Heart Association, the American Cancer Society, the Harris County Pharmacy Association, Texas Department of Transportation, and the Jewish Federation of Houston. Her reporting duties have covered subjects ranging from toxic waste to chocolate factories! She has traveled across the country and to Moscow. She even reported from the Russian Arctic where she was toasted with reindeer blood by nomadic herders! In 1989 she received a special award from the Jewish Federation of Greater Houston for her series of reports from Russia which helped secure the freedom of a Soviet Jewish family. Her variety of Health Check reports cover the latest medical news of the day including her award-winning report on the rare father-son liver transplant as well as a story on brain surgery to cure epilepsy. She's also covered health tips on living to be 100, and ways to overcome infertility. She's done seven sets of bacteria and chemical pollution reports documenting findings of bacteria on hotel bedspreads, E.coli in iced tea, and mercury in the San Jacinto River. She gave us an inside look at military medicine in Germany at Landstuhl Regional Hospital during the first week of the war in Iraq. She was among the last to videotape inside the emergency room before American casualties began arriving the next morning and the hospital was indefinitely closed to media. She traveled to Japan with M.D. Anderson scientists to tell the story of a new proton radiation machine being built for Houston, and the M.D. Anderson physician from Hiroshima who helped bring it here. Christi's reports have been recognized with many awards and honors among which are: • Regional Emmy • 11 Emmy nominations • 2003 Woman of Vision, Houston Delta Gamma • Epilepsy Foundation of America's National Journalism Award • Houston Jewish Federation Award, "One Who Helps the Downtrodden" • Harris County Medical Society, Francis C. Moore, M.D. Medical Journalism Award of Excellence 1996,1998, 2002, 2005 • Harris County Medical Society
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