{"id":248000,"date":"2026-04-13T19:35:12","date_gmt":"2026-04-13T19:35:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/248000\/"},"modified":"2026-04-13T19:35:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T19:35:12","slug":"ktxs-news-tori-garcia-joe-fry-recognized-at-texas-broadcast-news-awards-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/248000\/","title":{"rendered":"KTXS News\u2019 Tori Garcia, Joe Fry recognized at Texas Broadcast News Awards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>AUSTIN, Texas \u2014 A KTXS News team brought home hardware from one of the state\u2019s top journalism competitions.<\/p>\n<p>Multimedia journalist Tori Garcia and Photographer Joe Fry earned a win at the 2026 Texas Broadcast News Awards Saturday night in Austin, taking home a plaque in the small market Feature (Light) Story category.<\/p>\n<p>The award was given for their story, \u201cAbilene\u2019s Hidden Gem: D&amp;W Underground,\u201d a piece highlighting the history of an event space in Abilene that is home to over 100 neon signs.<\/p>\n<p>Garcia and Fry were the only finalists from KTXS News this year and ultimately secured the station\u2019s lone win at the awards.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Texas Association of Broadcasters, the TAB Awards honor excellence in television and radio journalism across the state.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AUSTIN, Texas \u2014 A KTXS News team brought home hardware from one of the state\u2019s top journalism competitions.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":247981,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[27,29,28],"class_list":["post-248000","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248000","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=248000"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248000\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/247981"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=248000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=248000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=248000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}