{"id":321752,"date":"2026-05-18T21:17:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-18T21:17:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/321752\/"},"modified":"2026-05-18T21:17:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T21:17:08","slug":"ktvu-to-lose-longtime-weekend-anchor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/321752\/","title":{"rendered":"KTVU to lose longtime weekend anchor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Longtime Bay Area news anchor Cristina\u00a0Rendon will be leaving the station next month.<\/p>\n<p>The weekend KTVU anchor announced that she plans to relocate to Dallas next month during the evening show on Saturday, May 16.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m following my husband for his job,\u201d she said in a clip of the broadcast shared to <a href=\"http:\/\/linkedin.com\/feed\/update\/urn:li:activity:7461941688627003394\/\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">LinkedIn<\/a> on Sunday, May 17. \u201cI\u2019m taking a big leap of faith and hoping to land on my feet once I\u2019m there.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She added that she had also wanted to be closer to family in south Texas.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is a very bittersweet announcement,\u201d she said during Saturday\u2019s broadcast, in another clip shared to her <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DYbQgQQFZww\/?img_index=1\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Instagram<\/a> account on Sunday. \u201cFor the past 12 \u00bd years, this place has been home.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Rendon was raised in San Benito, Texas and started at KTVU in 2013 as a field reporter, working her way to her current role as weekend anchor. On Saturday\u2019s broadcast, she reflected on her time at the station, recalling that one of her first anchor shifts was back in March 2020, as the COVID-19 outbreak was beginning.<\/p>\n<p>Her last day at the station is set for June 13.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Before arriving at KTVU, Rendon worked at KRGV Channel 5 News in the Rio Grande Valley and ABC 4 Utah in Salt Lake City.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>She attended St. Mary\u2019s University in San Antonio before transferring to St. Edward\u2019s University in Austin, where she received a degree in communication.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>She listed the 2014 Napa earthquake and San Francisco Giants World Series win as well as the Golden State Warriors\u2019 championship runs (2015, 2017-18 and 2022) as some of her most memorable moments during her time in the Bay Area.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThank you to my colleagues who I consider like family,\u201d Rendon captioned her Instagram post. \u201cIt\u2019s been an incredible ride! Let\u2019s make these last 4 weeks count!\u201d<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Longtime Bay Area news anchor Cristina\u00a0Rendon will be leaving the station next month. The weekend KTVU anchor announced&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":321753,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[329,838,143,145,144],"class_list":["post-321752","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-oakland","tag-arts-and-entertainment","tag-movies-and-tv","tag-oakland","tag-oakland-headlines","tag-oakland-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321752","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=321752"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321752\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/321753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=321752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=321752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=321752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}