{"id":474364,"date":"2026-10-23T09:38:21","date_gmt":"2026-10-23T09:38:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/474364\/"},"modified":"2026-10-23T09:38:21","modified_gmt":"2026-10-23T09:38:21","slug":"east-texas-tonight-how-this-east-texan-got-bitten-by-the-radio-bug","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/474364\/","title":{"rendered":"EAST TEXAS TONIGHT: How this East Texan got bitten by the radio bug"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">TYLER, Texas (KLTV) &#8211; Billy Jenkins is a jack of all trades as a DJ at KNUE 101.5, whether it\u2019s keeping up to date on the latest restaurant openings in Tyler or deciding which famous actors personify which East Texas cities.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">In this edition of East Texas Tonight, we\u2019ll learn how Jenkins got bit by the radio bug, how it brought him to the Piney Woods and what it takes to be a radio DJ.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 KLTV. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TYLER, Texas (KLTV) &#8211; Billy Jenkins is a jack of all trades as a DJ at KNUE 101.5,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":474365,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[160528,59997,2604,160529,2187,27,29,28],"class_list":["post-474364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-billy-jenkins","tag-dj","tag-east-texas","tag-knue","tag-radio","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474364","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=474364"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474364\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/474365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=474364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=474364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=474364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}