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Gray Television and NBCUniversal Local’s Telemundo Station Group, have established a news collaboration to expand Telemundo Station Group’s Noticias Telemundo Texas to Gray’s seven Telemundo affiliated Texas stations: KTLE Odessa-Midland, KWTX-KBTX Waco-Temple-Bryan, KXNU-KGNS Laredo, KXTQ Lubbock, KEYU Amarillo, KLTV-KTRE Tyler-Lufkin and KSWO-KKTM Wichita Falls-Lawton beginning Oct. 10 at 5 a.m. CT. As a result of this partnership, Spanish-speaking audiences in 13 Texas DMAs will receive live news and updates, and weather forecasts on weekday mornings.
Susan Sim Oh, vice president of strategy and operations for Gray Television’s Telemundo Station Group, said: “We are elated about the first ever news collaboration with NBCU Local’s Telemundo Station Group. Serving our audiences with quality news and valuable information is why we are in the television business. This partnership will allow us to provide nearly triple the amount of Texas-based news in Spanish to approximately 429,000 Hispanic homes throughout Gray’s seven Telemundo affiliate markets in Texas.”
Noticias Telemundo Texas is a new two-hour, early morning weekday newscast that was launched by NBCUniversal Local’s Telemundo Station Group on Sept. 26 across five Telemundo owned stations in Texas: KXTX Dallas, KTMD Houston, KVDA San Antonio, KTLM Harlingen-McAllen and KTDO El Paso. Noticias Telemundo Texas is produced from NBC’s KXAS-KXTX studios in Fort Worth with reporters from Telemundo owned stations in Texas contributing with local reports from their communities.
As part of the news collaboration, Gray’s Telemundo affiliated stations in Texas will provide local news content from their respective markets and will broaden the presentation of Noticias Telemundo