{"id":401025,"date":"2026-08-08T08:30:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-08T08:30:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/401025\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T08:30:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T08:30:09","slug":"local-broadcasters-honored-by-the-texas-association-of-broadcasters-wtaw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/401025\/","title":{"rendered":"Local Broadcasters Honored by the Texas Association of Broadcasters &#8211; WTAW"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/TAB.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"TAB\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Two local broadcasters were honored last night by The Texas Association of Broadcasters (TAB).<\/p>\n<p>Bryan Broadcasting\u2019s Vice President and General Manager Ben Downs was given the Association\u2019s Lifetime Achievement Award. Downs is only the sixth recipient of the award in the 73 year history of the association.<\/p>\n<p>KBTX-TV anchor Rusty Surette received the Jason Hightower Award. The Hightower Award recognizes individuals in the broadcast industry who have demonstrated a proficiency for enterprise and innovation in servicing their stations\u2019 audience and communities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two local broadcasters were honored last night by The Texas Association of Broadcasters (TAB). Bryan Broadcasting\u2019s Vice President&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":401026,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[132,134,133],"class_list":["post-401025","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-austin","tag-austin","tag-austin-headlines","tag-austin-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401025","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=401025"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401025\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/401026"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=401025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=401025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=401025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}