{"id":395928,"date":"2026-08-02T22:59:27","date_gmt":"2026-08-02T22:59:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/395928\/"},"modified":"2026-08-02T22:59:27","modified_gmt":"2026-08-02T22:59:27","slug":"ksat-12-anchor-sarah-acosta-leaving-station-after-8-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/395928\/","title":{"rendered":"KSAT 12 anchor Sarah Acosta leaving station after 8 years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Another familiar face in San Antonio television news is signing off. KSAT 12 morning anchor Sarah Acosta announced Friday that she&#8217;s leaving the station after eight years.<\/p>\n<p>She said she is stepping away from the news industry after a 16-year career, though she plans to share details about her next chapter soon. Her final broadcast is scheduled for Saturday, August 8.<\/p>\n<p>Before arriving in San Antonio, she reported in Sacramento and Corpus Christi. Acosta joined KSAT in 2018 and went on to become a familiar face on Good Morning San Antonio, covering major stories across South Texas.<\/p>\n<p>In her announcement, Acosta reflected on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mysanantonio.com\/entertainment\/article\/san-antonio-tv-news-pregnancy-21225917.php\" data-link=\"native\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">personal milestones<\/a> she experienced during her time at KSAT, including buying a home, getting married and starting a family. She welcomed her first child earlier this year after announcing her pregnancy in 2024.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I am most sad about leaving my KSAT family behind,&#8221; she wrote. &#8220;Thank you to our viewers who have been so warm and welcoming to me, and I will continue to see you around San Antonio.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Acosta&#8217;s departure comes during a year of notable changes at KSAT. Earlier this year, the station confirmed a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mysanantonio.com\/entertainment\/article\/ksat-layoffs-21952575.php\" data-link=\"native\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">round of layoffs<\/a> as part of what parent company Graham Media Group described as a business and operational review, saying the cuts were not performance-related.\u00a0More recently, the newsroom has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mysanantonio.com\/entertainment\/article\/ksat-san-antonio-hunter-king-22359247.php\" data-link=\"native\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">welcomed new reporters<\/a> Hunter King and Olivia Dague as it continues to evolve.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Another familiar face in San Antonio television news is signing off. KSAT 12 morning anchor Sarah Acosta announced&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":238232,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[2107,820,82,84,83],"class_list":["post-395928","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-antonio","tag-mysaentertainment","tag-mysastaff","tag-san-antonio","tag-san-antonio-headlines","tag-san-antonio-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395928","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=395928"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395928\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/238232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=395928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=395928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=395928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}