{"id":479263,"date":"2026-10-28T12:20:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-28T12:20:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/479263\/"},"modified":"2026-10-28T12:20:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-28T12:20:09","slug":"cbs-austin-adds-former-dallas-reporter-for-sports-desk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/479263\/","title":{"rendered":"CBS Austin adds former Dallas reporter for sports desk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A former North Texas TV reporter will now be covering big games on the Central Texas airwaves. Abbi Bennett <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/De7WRfttD_e\/\" data-link=\"native\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">recently announced on social media<\/a> that she landed a new gig in Austin.<\/p>\n<p>Bennett said she will be joining <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mysanantonio.com\/news\/austin\/article\/brenna-gibbons-cbs-austin-22417558.php\" data-link=\"native\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">CBS Austin<\/a> as the broadcast station&#8217;s latest sports anchor and reporter. The Texas native\u00a0previously worked at NBC5 Dallas-Fort Worth, which she bid goodbye to and thanked her colleagues and viewers for all their support over the past year.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Dallas, you\u2019ve been so good to me this last year! Getting to work in my hometown at a station I grew up watching is something I\u2019ll always be grateful for,&#8221; Bennett said. &#8220;This chapter has brought some incredible people, opportunities, and memories, making it a tough one to close. But as one door closes, another one opens and I\u2019m excited for what\u2019s ahead!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Originally from Dallas, Bennett told MySA she started her career at a news station in Colorado Springs after graduating from the University of Oklahoma in 2022. She worked at FOX21 News Colorado for three years and after her contract ended, she landed a job back home in Dallas at NBC5.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Now, she explained she&#8217;s looking forward to her &#8220;next adventure in Austin!&#8221; The OU alum will soon be taking on sports in Longhorn territory, as she joked to <a href=\"https:\/\/cbsaustin.com\/station\/people\/bob-ballou\" data-link=\"native\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">CBS Austin&#8217;s\u00a0sports director Bob Ballou<\/a> in her post, &#8220;can I still call it\u00a0OU\/Texas?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Bennett&#8217;s announcement comes just two weeks\u00a0after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mysanantonio.com\/entertainment\/article\/darby-brown-cbs-austin-22454153.php\" data-link=\"native\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">CBS Austin sports anchor and reporter Darby Brown<\/a> left\u00a0the station in early October. After 10 years of reporting in Texas, including two at CBS Austin, Brown landed a new role in her hometown of\u00a0Phoenix, Arizona.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A former North Texas TV reporter will now be covering big games on the Central Texas airwaves. Abbi&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":479264,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[132,134,133,2107,820],"class_list":["post-479263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-austin","tag-austin","tag-austin-headlines","tag-austin-news","tag-mysaentertainment","tag-mysastaff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479263","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=479263"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479263\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/479264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=479263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=479263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=479263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}