{"id":312666,"date":"2026-05-28T17:42:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-28T17:42:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/312666\/"},"modified":"2026-05-28T17:42:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-28T17:42:08","slug":"east-texas-politics-streaming-series-debuts-friday-with-tyler-mayoral-candidates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/312666\/","title":{"rendered":"East Texas Politics streaming series debuts Friday with Tyler mayoral candidates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">TYLER, Texas (KLTV) &#8211; A new streaming political show will premiere Friday, May 29, on East Texas Now.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The debut episode of East Texas Politics on East Texas Now will feature Tyler mayoral candidates John Nix and Stuart Hene. The show will also include Pine Tree ISD superintendent Steve Clugston, who is running as a conservative independent to represent Texas Senate District 1, a seat currently held by Republican State Sen. Bryan Hughes.<\/p>\n<p>How to watch<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The weekly show will stream Fridays at 6:30 p.m. with an encore presentation Sundays at 10 a.m. You can watch at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kltv.com\/livestream\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.kltv.com\/livestream\/\">kltv.com\/live<\/a> or using the free KLTV or KTRE apps on Roku, Amazon Fire TV, Apple TV, or Android TV.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The series will feature interviews with elected officials and candidates, plus analysis of local, state, regional, and national political news.<\/p>\n<p>About the host<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kltv.com\/authors\/BlakeHolland\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.kltv.com\/authors\/BlakeHolland\/\">Blake Holland<\/a> is a news anchor and reporter for KLTV and KTRE. He anchors East Texas\u2019 most-watched newscasts at 5 and 6 p.m. Since joining KLTV and KTRE in 2018, Holland has covered national political conventions, presidential visits, and interviewed gubernatorial and presidential candidates, plus extensive reporting on regional political news including weekly coverage of Smith County Commissioners Court.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 KLTV. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TYLER, Texas (KLTV) &#8211; A new streaming political show will premiere Friday, May 29, on East Texas Now.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":312667,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[27,29,28],"class_list":["post-312666","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\/312666","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=312666"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312666\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/312667"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=312666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=312666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=312666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}