{"id":89191,"date":"2025-12-15T23:28:11","date_gmt":"2025-12-15T23:28:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/89191\/"},"modified":"2025-12-15T23:28:11","modified_gmt":"2025-12-15T23:28:11","slug":"hello-houston-the-commuter-cut-december-15-2025-houston-public-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/89191\/","title":{"rendered":"Hello Houston \u2013 The Commuter Cut (December 15, 2025) \u2013 Houston Public Media"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-517232\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/HH_Podcast-Cover_The-Commuter-Cut-1000x1000.jpg\" alt=\"Hello Houston: The Commuter Cut\" width=\"1000\" height=\"1000\"   data-eio=\"p\"\/>Hello Houston: The Commuter Cut<\/p>\n<p>In today\u2019s edition of \u201cThe Commuter Cut,\u201d Houston broadcaster <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/SharaFryerKTRH\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Shara Fryer<\/a> joins us to discuss the legacy of legendary Houston newsman Dave Ward, her longtime colleague and co-anchor from 1986 to 2003, following his passing on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Then, we hear from longtime ABC13 anchor <a href=\"https:\/\/abc13.com\/about\/newsteam\/melanie-lawson\/?userab=abc_web_player-460*variant_b_abc_dmp-1901,otv_web_player-461*variant_b_otv_dmp-1903,otv_web_content_rec-445*variant_c_trending-1851,hp_banner-426*variant_a_control-1777\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Melanie Lawson<\/a>, who joins us to reflect on her extraordinary 43-year-long career with the station, as well as what comes next following her recently announced retirement.<\/p>\n<p>Sign up for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.houstonpublicmedia.org\/hellohouston\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Hello, Houston!<\/a> daily newsletter to get local reports like this delivered directly to your inbox.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hello Houston: The Commuter Cut In today\u2019s edition of \u201cThe Commuter Cut,\u201d Houston broadcaster Shara Fryer joins us&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1626,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[42162,41696,2245,2246,56,58,57,66,6228,223,42166],"class_list":{"0":"post-89191","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-houston","8":"tag-abc-13","9":"tag-dave-ward","10":"tag-hello-houston","11":"tag-hello-houston-commuter","12":"tag-houston","13":"tag-houston-headlines","14":"tag-houston-news","15":"tag-local","16":"tag-melanie-lawson","17":"tag-news","18":"tag-shara-fryer"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89191","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=89191"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89191\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1626"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}