{"id":246983,"date":"2026-04-13T01:21:18","date_gmt":"2026-04-13T01:21:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/246983\/"},"modified":"2026-04-13T01:21:18","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T01:21:18","slug":"fox-44-earns-two-awards-at-the-2026-tab-texas-broadcast-news-awards-banquet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/246983\/","title":{"rendered":"FOX 44 earns two awards at the 2026 TAB Texas Broadcast News Awards Banquet"},"content":{"rendered":"

AUSTIN, Texas (FOX 44<\/a>) \u2013 It was a beautiful night in Austin, Texas with a room full of the \u201cWho\u2019s Who\u201d list of Texas News Broadcasters. Among them, our own Fox 44 team. They weren\u2019t just there to support and attend. No, our group showed up to collect some hard-earned hardware!<\/p>\n

FOX 44 is honored to share the news that we picked up not one, but two awards last night at the Texas Association of Broadcasters (TAB) Texas Broadcast News Awards Banquet in Austin!<\/p>\n

\"L-R:<\/p>\n

L-R: Producer, Jay Lathon; News Director, Sylvia Villarreal; Weekend Anchor, Vince Erickson; VP\/GM, Mike Lee<\/p>\n

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First, the award for \u2018Best Documentary in a Medium Market\u2019 for our special, \u201cLone Star Echoes: Saigon\u2019s Untold Stories\u201d. \u00a0Then, in a complete and welcomed surprise to the whole team, we received the final, most prestigious award of the night in our \u2018Medium Market\u2019 category for \u201cOverall Broadcast Excellence.\u201d<\/p>\n

We would like to thank our team, all of our guests, and, of course, our viewers for tuning in every day and trusting us to bring you the latest local news of Central Texas. We know we couldn\u2019t do it without you!<\/p>\n

Copyright 2026 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.<\/p>\n

For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to KWKT – FOX 44. <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AUSTIN, Texas (FOX 44) \u2013 It was a beautiful night in Austin, Texas with a room full of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":246984,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[132,10241,93891,27,29,28],"class_list":["post-246983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-austin","tag-fox","tag-news-director","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246983","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=246983"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246983\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/246984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=246983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=246983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=246983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}