Longtime KSAT12 anchor Sarah Acosta is leaving the local news channel \u2014 but she hinted that she won\u2019t be going far.<\/p>\n
A morning news anchor, Acosta\u2019s last broadcast at the station will be on Saturday, Aug. 8. She has been at KSAT since 2018.<\/p>\n
\u201cI am most sad about leaving my KSAT family behind, who have been there with me through all my major life milestones\u00a0\u2014 buying a house, getting married, having a baby,\u201d she wrote on Instagram<\/a>.<\/p>\n Acosta said she\u2019s leaving the news industry altogether.<\/p>\n Acosta, who grew up in Corpus Christi, previously worked as an anchor and reporter for a local station in Sacramento, Calif. She started her career in 2010 as a reporter for the Corpus Christi Caller Times, where she filmed her own video segments about local happenings that earned her spots on TV.\u00a0<\/p>\n In 2013, she switched over to a TV station in Corpus Christi and moved to Sacramento three years later.<\/p>\n During college at Southern Methodist University, Acosta played on the tennis team and interned at an array of news outlets across Texas.<\/p>\n While she plans to share details about her next steps later, Acosta hinted that she\u2019s staying in town.<\/p>\n \u201cThank you to our viewers who have been so warm and welcoming to me, and I will continue to see you around San Antonio,\u201d she wrote.\u00a0<\/p>\n As Acosta prepares to depart, KSAT recently added two fresh faces: reporters Hunter King and Olivia Dague,\u00a0both Texas natives<\/a>.<\/p>\n