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Colorado station adds Spanish-language news breaks

December 18, 2009 by Veronica Villafañe

Mireya García is the first anchor/reporter of Notialertas Telemundo for KRDO News Channel 13 (ABC), in Colorado Springs.

 

Station news director Michael Sipes tells me he was in talks with corporate parent News-Press Gazette for a year before taking the leap into producing Spanish-language segments. They hired Mireya in November and started airing news and weather on Dec. 7 on KRDO’s digital Telemundo channel, 13.2.

 

The segments, which air at the top (news) and bottom (weather) of each hour, can also be seen on their low-power signals Ch. 49 in Colorado Springs and Ch. 34 in Pueblo. The station also produces a Spanish-language site, TelemundoSurCo.com, which includes video clips of the locally-produced Spanish news briefs.

 

For Mireya, the new venture is an exciting experience: “It’s different from my home state of Texas, where there is a much bigger Hispanic population, but it’s great to be in a state like Colorado where so many people are interested in getting Spanish-language news.”

 

For the time being, Mireya anchors the briefs Mon-Fri and tapes weather segments for the weekends. She says there’s a lot of optimism and support from management and there’s talks of potentially launching a full-length newscast sometime in the future.

 

Prior to joining KRDO, Mireya was a reporter for KORO-28, the Univision affiliate in Corpus Christi.

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Veronica Villafañe, Editor & Publisher

Emmy award-winning journalist and former president of the National Association of Hispanic Journalists (NAHJ). Currently a reporter for Voice of America, she has worked as an on-air reporter, anchor, writer and producer for Spanish and English-language TV, print and online media, including Univision, Telemundo, Fox 11 News in L.A. and the San Jose Mercury News.

Hispanic media and entertainment contributor to Forbes.

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Veronica Villafañe, Editor & Publisher

Emmy award-winning journalist and former president of the National Association of Hispanic Journalists (NAHJ). Currently a reporter for Voice of America, she has worked as an on-air reporter, anchor, writer and producer for Spanish and English-language TV, print and online media, including Univision, Telemundo, Fox 11 News in L.A. and the San Jose Mercury News.

Hispanic media and entertainment contributor to Forbes.

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