Joe McCoy, who has spent the past two years at Minneapolis station\u00a0KARE 11, is heading south to join KTRK. McCoy announced the move on social media Thursday.<\/p>\n
“My next chapter will be in Houston, Texas, reporting at KTRK, the ABC-owned station<\/a> there,” McCoy wrote. “I am very grateful and excited for this opportunity, and I look forward to calling Houston my new home.”<\/p>\n Chron has reached out to McCoy and ABC13 for comment.<\/p>\n McCoy joined\u00a0KARE 11 in July 2024. Before moving to Minneapolis, he worked at WQAD News 8, the TEGNA-owned station<\/a> serving the Quad Cities, as a multimedia journalist and weekend anchor. He first joined WQAD as an intern in 2022 before being hired full time in January 2023, covering communities across eastern Iowa and western Illinois.<\/p>\n An\u00a0Augustana College graduate, McCoy studied journalism and economics and built much of his early broadcasting experience in sports. He worked as a sports broadcaster<\/a>, hosted a weekly football radio show focused on NFL analysis and called high school football and basketball games for QCSportsNet. He also interned as a reporter for WVIK, Quad Cities NPR.<\/p>\n McCoy is the third reporter to join ABC13 this year. The station added Tony\u00a0Atkins<\/a> in March after his time at WESH 2 News, the NBC affiliate in Orlando. KTRK also welcomed Kelvin Henry<\/a> in January following more than four years as a general assignment reporter at NBC 7 San Diego.<\/p>\n