Telemundo launches El Paso newscast

Spanish-speaking viewers in the El Paso-Juárez-Las Cruces area will have another option for news starting Nov. 16. Telemundo affiliate KTDO-TV Channel 48 (cable Channel 11) will launch 5 p.m. and 10 p.m. newscasts starting that week to go head-to-head with the news giant of El Paso — Univision's KINT-TV Channel 26.

The high-definition newscasts will be Monday through Friday in the beginning and will rely on several familiar faces and names in El Paso, as well as some new ones to the market.

Anchoring the news will be former Channel 26 anchor Ricardo Vela, an Emmy winning journalists that began his career in El Paso but has worked in California for several years. He was most recently the anchor of San Diego's Univision newscast. Vela is a graduate of the ITESM in Juárez and UTEP.

The reporting staff will consist of Fernanda Camarena and Gabriel Preciado. Camarena is a Juárez native who got her start in the news business at Televisa. The UTEP graduate also has worked for Univision in Washington, D.C., and for CBS Evening News and for Channel One News. She is also a member of the National Association of Hispanic Journalists. Preciado, a native of Colima, Mexico, has worked in television and radio throughout Mexico, Oklahoma and Texas.

The weather will be presented by Georgina Terrazas, a Torreon native who has been a mainstay of the news business in Juárez. Terrazas has anchored and done weather for Juárez's Channel 5 and Channel 44. She has also worked throughout Mexico and California doing radio, television and newspapers.

The news director at KTDO Telemundo is Uriel Posada, who returns home to El Paso after stints for Univision in Albuquerque, Denver and Sacramento, Calif., where he last worked as an executive producer.

Uriel said the newscast will focus on the news of the border that Spanish-speaking viewers want to see.

"We will tell the stories that are important and relevant to this community,' he said. "The Telenoticias El Paso team is dedicated to bringing tis viewers the news that matters most."

 

Comments

[Duh]

So glad that 26 will finally have some competition, maybe they will learn that they can't just steal all the news from their "news partners".

[gayboy]

Stop removing my posts!

[Gustavo]

Gayboy:

I am the only that removes post and I have not removed a single one of them. This is the second time you make this claim. I have left your previous posts up (however inappropriate they may have been) so why would I start removing them now?

Gustavo

[AlcoholicsAnonymous]

I honestly think Raul Martinez is secretly removing his posts behind Gustavo's back... It's the only explanation I can come up with.

[Fernando]

Ricardo Vela was a good reporter in Univision 26. I know he will succeed as telenoticias news anchor. congratulations to Telemundo and its news team. godspeed!!

[Duh]

GayBoy your crap comments are worthless and should be deleted on the spot.

[Former Newshound]

Well so far Telemundo's newscast leaves a lot to be desired, they aren't even as bad as KDBC!! they are WORSE!! This Vela guy can't read, he stumbles all over himself, the other night he forgot the name of the sports guy!
They spend most of their news doing stories from everywhere else but El Paso. I was really hoping to see some type of competition for KINT, only because we have such a large Spanish market and the English stations fail time and time again to acknowledge this. But, this so called "newscast" is nothing close to it. Their claim to fame is that it's the only HD news in Spanish?
Sorry guys, if you're gonna field a team to try to beat the #1 stations (KINT,KVIA,KTSM) you gotta do better than this, they are the varsity teams in town, your newscast isn't even JV.

[sr. enriquez]

Probably the news director from channel 26 have jealous, because the news from channel 26 they suck!!!!!!, is the same always the same!!!!!......Ricardo good job en hora buena!!!!!!