Talk:KTRK-TV

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The TV Guide ads didn't show up, and I couldn't find them on the server, so I removed the image tags. I've placed them here, and when those images have been uploaded, go ahead and put them back in the article.

File:Ktrk1973.JPG

1973 "Channel 13 Eyewitness News" advertisement from TV Guide featuring Dave Ward, Dan Lovett and Ed Brandon. The c.1966-1995 station logo is also visible.

File:Ktrk1987.JPG

1987 "Channel 13 Live at Five News Team" advertisement from TV Guide featuring Melanie Lawson, Bob Boudreareaux, Alvin Van Black, Ed Brandon, Bob Allen and Tim Melton. The station logo is also visible.

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1993 "Channel 13 Eyewitness News News Anchors Team" advertisement from TV Guide featuring Dave Ward, Shara Fryer, Marvin Zindler, Ed Brandon and Bob Allen. The station logo is also visible.

And according to CBS's website [1], Dan Rather did work for KTRK before joining KHOU, so I've updated the article accordingly.

- Hinto 04:39, 21 July 2005 (UTC)[reply]

"You're watching channel 13..."[edit]

Who was the guy who always did the opening announcements for Eyewitness News in the 70s and 80s? Does anybody know? Charles Harrison is listed as a station announcer, but I'm not sure if he's the same announcer who opened the news... Dwight "Shotgun" Cook was the voice on the opener. He had a recording studio in Houston and a great. Voice. Val Davis (me) replaced Charlie Harrison in 1987. I was the last fulltime "Booth Announcer" at KTRK.

--TServo2049 19:53, 9 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

There are two fine Hispanic reporters missing from the Channel 13 KTRK-TV listing of notable alumni -- Carlos Agular and Greg Dumas.

Also missing are some of the key family members who built the station from a poor #3 position to the finest in Houston perhaps in the U. S. -- Ken Johnson, Jim Masucci, Charles Wolf, Claudette Sims, Cyndy Garza, Nancy O'Brien. (Note Walt Hawver and Paul Bures were key as well; however, they are already mentioned.)

A news person who deserves great credit for building and maintaining the news' excellence -- first as a consultant working with Hawver and then as the director -- was Jim Topping.

Another notable alumnus was (Judge) John Montgomery who produced the 7AM News -- a program whose performance was considered to be the best in the country at that hour. (It enjoyed greater audience than did either KHOU or KPRC with their 5PM newscasts.) —Preceding unsigned comment added by OldTraveler (talk • contribs) 18:02, 15 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I also added Leslie Brinkley, who was the reporter who covered little Jessica McClure, who fell down a well and subsequently won a breaking news award. -ytsekirby

KXYZ-TV[edit]

After looking at the newspaper archives of both daily newspapers at the Downtown Houston Public Library, there is no evidence of KXYZ-TV. It has always been KTRK.

After a quick check online, I think you are correct, it has been KTRK since the day it went on the air. The confusion seems to stem from radio station KXYZ's attempt to get permission to telecast on UHF 13 several years prior. Between the time KXYZ first applied and channel 13 actually going on air a consortium of owners was agreed upon and the call letters changed to KTRK by the time it first broadcast. The blog Houston Radio History gives a fairly detailed timeline of the early years of Houston tv. Perhaps someone else will check another source to verify this, and tidy up this error. Jacksinterweb 05:13, 7 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Travis Herzog -- Meteorologist[edit]

Travis is a meteorologist (not just a "weather anchor") -- having earned his BS in Meteorology from Texas A&M University.

[2]

12.206.112.177 02:13, 25 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

DITTO, change him to METEOROLOGIST!!! —Preceding unsigned comment added by Ryancshearer (talk • contribs) 18:34, 4 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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BetacommandBot (talk) 23:41, 13 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Not the Same Larry Kane . . .[edit]

I noticed that The Larry Kane Show (1959–1971) was mentioned among KTRK's shows, albeit in the former on-air personalities section. There is one thing that must be noted: It was not the Philadelphia TV news legend (whose entry pops up when one clicks on his name), but a Houston disk jockey whose program was a teen dance music show a la American Bandstand (in fact, it was at first because of this Kane show that AB was not aired on KTRK at all from 1959 to 1984), and who died in the 1990s. If anyone has concrete, readily-referenced info on this Larry Kane, may I suggest a new entry be created for "Larry Kane (disk jockey)." –Wbwn (talk) 18:51, 6 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Link removed, just an error. [3] Postoak (talk) 19:45, 6 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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