KWTX-TV

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KWTX-TV
Waco / Temple / Killeen, Texas
Branding	News 10 CW Waco
Slogan	First, fast and accurate
Channels	10 (VHF) analog, 53 (UHF) digital
Affiliations	CBS The CW (on digital)
Owner	Gray Television
Founded	April 3, 1955
Call letters meaning	K Waco, TX
Former affiliations	UPN (on digital, to 9/2006)
Website	www.kwtx.com

KWTX-TV (News 10) is a full-power television station in Waco, Texas, serving Central Texas as a CBS affiliate. It is owned by Gray Television. It is broadcast on cable channel 2 in the immediate part of the market.

KWTX also offers The CW programming on its digital feed. Prior to September 2006, KWTX offered UPN programming on digital.

Contents 1 Newscasts 2 Current On-Air Personalities 3 Past On-Air Personalities 4 Role During Branch Davidian Raid 5 HD History 6 Local Trivia 7 Operations 8 Logos 9 See also 10 External links

[edit] Newscasts

Monday-Friday

• News 10 This Morning: 5:30 AM-7 AM
• News 10 at Noon: 12 PM-12:30 PM
• News 10 at 5: 5 PM-5:30 PM
• News 10 at 6: 6 PM-6:30 PM
• 10@10: 10 PM-10:35 PM

Saturday

• Out and About (News Magazine): 11 AM-11:30 AM
• News 10 at 6: 6 PM-6:30 PM
• 10@10: 10 PM-10:35 PM

Sunday

• News 10 Sunday: 5:30 PM-6 PM
• 10@10: 10 PM-10:35 PM

[edit] Current On-Air Personalities

Anchors

• Gordon Collier - News 10 at 5, 6, and 10
• Julie Shelton - News 10 at 5, 6, and 10
• Bill Young - News 10 This Morning; News 10 at Noon
• Marissa Rubin - News 10 This Morning
• Christopher Heath - News 10 Saturday at 6 and 10; News 10 Sunday at 5:30 and 10

Weather

• Rusty Garrett - Chief Meteorologist (News 10 at 5, 6, and 10)
• Lon Curtis - News 10 This Morning, News 10 at Noon
• Brady Taylor - News 10 Saturday at 6 and 10; News 10 Sunday at 5:30 and 10

Sports

• Matt Iazzetti - Sports Director (News 10 at 5, 6, and 10)
• Dan Ingham - News 10 Saturday at 6 and 10; News 10 Sunday at 5:30 and 10
• Tyler Garrett - Sports Reporter

Reporters

• Matt Felder
• Robyn Kriel
• Eli Ross
• Stephanie Serna
• Gracie Villarreal

[edit] Past On-Air Personalities

• Mark Alford (Now Anchor for WDAF-TV, Kansas City)
• Mike Barger (Now Executive Producer for KENS-TV, San Antonio)
• Annie Blanco
• Anita Blanton (Now Reporter for WRIC-TV, Richmond, Virginia)
• Ellen Bordelon Derrick
• Doug Brown (Now Weathercaster for KTRK-TV, Houston)
• Vicki Buffalino (Now Anchor for KENS-TV, San Antonio)
• Richelle Carey (Now Anchor for CNN Headline News)
• Bianca Castro (Now Anchor for KRIS-TV, Corpus Christi, Texas)
• Aaron Chimbel(Now Mobile Journalist for WFAA-TV, Dallas)
• Kathryn Dettman[1](Murdered on her last day of employment at KWTX)
• David George (Now Chief Meteorologist for WMTV-TV, Madison)
• Lisa Hanna (Now Project Director for Turner Strategies in Washington, D.C.)
• Sonta Henderson (Now Reporter for KXAN-TV, Austin)
• Elise Hu (Now Reporter for KVUE-TV, Austin)
• Ryan Kelly (Now Producer at KVUE-TV, Austin)
• Kandice Kelly (Now a Freelance Reporter in California)
• Pete Kenworthy (Now Anchor for WKBW-TV, Buffalo)
• Steve Kersh (Now Chief Meteorologist for KVII-TV, Amarillo)
• Dana Larson (Now Anchor for FOX Sports Southwest)
• Josh Larson (Now Producer at KSAT-TV, San Antonio)
• Sharon Mayo-Parker (Now Spokesperson for the Fort Worth I.S.D.)
• Annie McCormick (Now Reporter for KRQE-TV, Albuquerque)
• John McLemore[2]
• Amy Montalvo
• Angela Montoya
• Chip Moody
• Elise Morgan
• Betty Nguyen (Now Anchor for CNN)
• Robbie Owens (Now Reporter for KTVT-TV, Dallas)
• Wendy Rigby (Now Reporter for KENS-TV, San Antonio)
• Erik Rinderle (Now Anchor for NorthWest Cable News, as Erik Sandoval NWCN)
• Rachel Roark
• Anita Roberts
• Lori Scott-Fogleman (Now Director of Media Relations for Baylor University)

[edit] Role During Branch Davidian Raid

Just before the Mount Carmel raid on February 28, 1993, Davidians learned that they were facing not a service of warrants, but a shootout. KWTX-TV cameraman James Peeler asked directions of Davidian David Jones, who was driving his postal truck. David Koresh's attorney Dick DeGuerin told reporters that Peeler told Jones, "Well, you better get out of here because there's a National Guard helicopter over at TSTC (Texas State Technical College) and they're going to have a big shootout with the religious nuts. Peeler was distressed to see Jones immediately drive to Mount Carmel Center and left the area to call his superiors.

According to the Treasury report, Jones told DeGuerin that "Peeler warned him not to go near the Compound as there were going to be `60 to 70 TABC (Texas Alcohol Beverage Commission) guys in helicopters and a shoot-out would occur'." And Peeler himself confessed to the Treasury review team that he had told Jones there would be "some type of law enforcement action" and that "the action was likely to be a raid of some type and that there might be shooting." KWTX-TV cameraman Dan Mulloney testified that KWTX-TV's initial information came from law enforcement agents he refused to name--something the Treasury report failed to reveal--as well as from a private ambulance driver working with BATF. (Similarly, BATF agent Ballesteros admitted that it was non-BATF law enforcement that tipped off the Waco Tribune-Herald.) Therefore, BATF agents' expectations of a shootout were directly transmitted to the Davidians.

Mulloney, Peeler, and reporter John McLemore were the only non-combatants at Mount Carmel that fateful day. And the three became the only independent witnesses in the subsequent trials that attempted to assess blame for the botched raid as well as the subsequent federal assault and fire on April 19, 1993, that left about 80 people dead. Mulloney shot the TV footage that was shown around the world, of agents from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms storming the Davidians’ home. Mulloney and McLemore, later used their vehicle to transport injured ATF agents away from the shootout.[3]

[edit] HD History

KWTX was the first station in the Central Texas area to be broadcasting in High Definition Television (HDTV). KWTX-DT first went on the air on Friday, May 11th, 2001 at 5:10 PM. It began regular programming on Tuesday, May 15th, 2001 on Digital Channel 53.

[edit] Local Trivia

KWTX shares the callsign with radio station 97.5 FM, a Top 40 Pop station and KWTX 1230 AM, a News/Talk station both owned by Clear Channel. At one time, the radio stations and television station were in the same building in Waco's American Plaza. Once the radio stations moved out, the television station used the additional space for offices and edit bays.

[edit] Operations

Though identifying as a station in its own right, KBTX in Bryan / College Station is considered a semi-satellite of KWTX. It has most of its internal operations run alongside KWTX, and clears all of KWTX's syndicated programming (although it has some shows not seen on KWTX).

[edit] Logos

KWTX DT2 UPN logo, used prior to September 2006.

KWTX News logo with old slogan and background.

[edit] See also

• KBTX-TV

[edit] External links

• Station Website
• CW Waco Station Website
• Query the FCC's TV station database for KWTX

Broadcast television in the Waco market  (Nielsen DMA #95)
Waco / Temple / Killeen: KCEN 6 (NBC) - KWTX 10 (CBS, The CW on DT2) - KXXV 25 (ABC) - KPLE-LP 31 (TBN) - KWBU 34 (PBS) - K38FN 38 (TBN) - KWKT 44 (FOX/MNTV) - KNCT 46 (PBS) - KAKW 62 (UNI)
Bryan / College Station: KBTX 3 (CBS, The CW on DT2) - KSCM-LP 12 (A1) - KAMU 15 (PBS) - KMAY-LP 23 (NBC) - KYLE 28 (FOX/MNTV) - KRHD-LP 40 (ABC) - K47ED 47 (TBN)