{"id":480996,"date":"2026-10-30T03:04:10","date_gmt":"2026-10-30T03:04:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/480996\/"},"modified":"2026-10-30T03:04:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-30T03:04:10","slug":"former-abc13-anchor-melanie-lawson-to-be-inducted-into-silver-circle-at-2026-lone-star-emmy-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/480996\/","title":{"rendered":"Former ABC13 anchor Melanie Lawson to be inducted into Silver Circle at 2026 Lone Star Emmy Awards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Watch Eyewitness News and ABC13 originals around the clock<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"KTRK logo\" class=\"awXxV NDJZt sJeUN IJwXl CfkUa EknAv NwgWd \" data-testid=\"prism-image\" draggable=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/1793329450_501_origin-ktrk.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Friday, October 30, 2026 12:45AM<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">HOUSTON, Texas  (KTRK) &#8212; Former ABC13 anchor Melanie Lawson will be inducted into the Silver Circle at the 2026 Lone Star Emmy Awards next month.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences awards this honor, recognizing television professionals who have made significant contributions to the industry over careers spanning 25 years or more.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">Lawson retired from ABC13 in January after a 45-year career at the station. Throughout her tenure, she became one of Houston television&#8217;s most recognizable and respected journalists.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2026 KTRK-TV. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Watch Eyewitness News and ABC13 originals around the clock Friday, October 30, 2026 12:45AM HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) &#8212;&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":480997,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[162210,56,58,57],"class_list":["post-480996","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-162210","tag-houston","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480996","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=480996"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480996\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/480997"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=480996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=480996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=480996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}