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Michael Courier (far right in grey suit) stands for a photo with KVUE anchors and reporters in Austin, Texas.\u00a0<\/p>\n
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Central Texas television news reporters are on the move in and out of the Lone Star State. Whether they’re leaving the airwaves or accepting a new job in a bigger market at an affiliate station, Austin has been full of TV news over the past year.\u00a0<\/p>\n
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The Austin-area is home to four main TV news\u00a0stations: KXAN (NBC affiliate),\u00a0KVUE (ABC affiliate), CBS Austin and FOX 7 Austin. All of the stations have seen some changes from reporters getting engaged to longtime anchors retiring.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
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Here’s a roundup\u00a0of all the TV news shakeups in Austin so far in 2026:\u00a0<\/p>\n
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Shake-ups at TV stations across Texas in March brought new faces to Austin and Corpus Christi, as well as a career pivot for one former San Antonio anchor.<\/p>\n
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In February, KXAN weekend anchor Nabil Remadna got engaged<\/a> to her fianc\u00e9e Anne Nicholson, whose the executive producer for CBS Austin’s We Are Austin. Although\u00a0the couple work at two different “rival”\u00a0stations, the pair met and fell\u00a0in love.<\/p>\n Article continues below this ad<\/p>\n Two months later, KXAN welcomed a new meteorologist<\/a> Hannah\u00a0Gard in April. She stepped in behind Rich Segal, who spent 45 years on air as a meteorologist before retiring.\u00a0<\/p>\n In March, former KXXV reporter Madison Myers<\/a> made the jump from Waco to KXAN in Austin. She is now a multimedia journalist for the station.\u00a0<\/p>\n In early July, former sports anchor and reporter\u00a0Blake Holland announced his new role<\/a> as KXAN’s Streaming Anchor and Digital Producer. Holland was previously a reporter at a TV station in the Rio Grande Valley.<\/p>\n Article continues below this ad<\/p>\n That same month,\u00a0bilingual\u00a0reporter anchor and reporter Esmeralda Zamora<\/a> signed off from Austin’s KXAN. She’s since become a social and community manager at MAX.Live, where she represents the South Texas Ford Dealers online and at community events.<\/p>\n A few months later, former New Mexico-based reporter, Ann\u00a0Pierret,<\/a> joined KXAN in September. The award-winning journalist is now a part\u00a0of a part of the station’s Emmy Award-winning investigative team.\u00a0<\/p>\n The two met about four years ago on a dating app \u2014 a tale Rucker calls a “modern love story.”<\/p>\n Courtesy of Jessie Rodriguez<\/p>\n KVUE<\/p>\n In February, KVUE anchor Hannah Rucker got engaged<\/a> to her fianc\u00e9 \u2014 University of Texas rugby coach Van Stewart. The couple met four years ago and are now planning a wedding in Texas.\u00a0<\/p>\n Article continues below this ad<\/p>\n That same month, KVUE added a new reporter<\/a>, Jos\u00e9 Alonzo, but said goodbye to meteorologist Grace Thornton. She is now a meteorologist<\/a> for WUSA9 News in Washington, DC.\u00a0<\/p>\n In July, Austin’s\u00a0KVUE welcomed Shay Lawson<\/a>, a multimedia journalist who won an Emmy for her work at KESQ in Palm Springs, California. She is now a full-time reporter at the station.\u00a0<\/p>\n In September, Brandon Schaff, a former sports anchor and news reporter at KIII in Corpus Christi, announced he would be reuniting with his meteorologist fianc\u00e9e<\/a> in Austin. Schaff joined the city’s ABC affiliate station,\u00a0KVUE, as a reporter.<\/p>\n Last but not least, former KVUE reporter Michael Courier<\/a> recently announced he landed a new TV gig in his home\u00a0state in October. He’s now a new reporter and anchor role with the ABC-affiliated TV station, WZZM in Grand Rapids, Michigan.\u00a0<\/p>\n Article continues below this ad<\/p>\n Nightside reporter Katie Pratt sits behind an anchor desk at Fox 7 Austin.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n Katie Pratt\/Courtesy of Katie Pratt<\/p>\n CBS Austin<\/p>\n In August, CBS Austin laid\u00a0off two anchors<\/a> in a restructuring move from Sinclair Broadcast Group. Anchor John-Carlos\u00a0Estrada, alongside traffic anchor Jenna Wilson, have been identified were impacted by the shakeup.<\/p>\n In September, former West Texas reporter\u00a0Brenna Gibbons<\/a> revealed she’d be joining CBS Austin as a multimedia journalist. Gibbons was formerly a\u00a0 reporter at KTXS News 12, an ABC affiliate station in Abilene.<\/p>\n Article continues below this ad<\/p>\n FOX 7<\/p>\n In May, FOX 7’s Dennis De la\u00a0Pe\u00f1a<\/a> moved from being the station’s sports director to hosting its digital first Austin Live shows. You can watch him weekdays\u00a0from 11:30 to noon and from 4 to 5 p.m.\u00a0<\/p>\n In late August,\u00a0Former FOX 7 reporter Katie Pratt<\/a> announced her departure from the news station after two years behind the screen. However, she’s still planning on staying in Texas.\u00a0<\/p>\n Article continues below this ad<\/p>\n The following month, in September, FOX 7 anchor Mike Warren retired after 37 years\u00a0<\/a>of working in journalism. Warren, who spent a majority (22 years) of his career at FOX 7, was the evening anchor on weekdays.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
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