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Hugo Magallán and Elizabeth Robaina are Telemundo 40's newest hires.

Telemundo hires Magallán and Robaina, expands news in Texas

September 3, 2014 by Veronica Villafañe

KTLM, Telemundo 40 McAllen, is expanding its local news operations, adding a 10 pm weekday and 4:30 and 10 pm weekend newscasts.

The station has hired Hugo Magallán to co-anchor the weekday 5 and 10 pm newscasts alongside Dalila Garza. Elizabeth Robaina joins the team as a Weather Anchor.

Héctor Zapata, who has worked as a news and sports reporter at Telemundo 40 since 2012, has been promoted to Sports Anchor.

Ana Cecilia Méndez will anchor “Noticias Telemundo 40” on Saturdays and Sundays at 4:30 PM and 10 PM.

The station debuted its new anchor team yesterday, September 2.

Hugo was most recently the morning news anchor for Univision McAllen from 2008 to 2014.

Elizabeth comes to Telemundo 40 from WAPA-TV in San Juan, Puerto Rico, where she was a weather anchor. She also worked as a weather anchor at Univision in Laredo from 2012 to 2013.

Filed Under: People, TV & Radio Tagged With: Telemundo

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  1. Gavin Martinez says

    September 4, 2014 at 2:18 PM

    What before this move occur new team they did have a 10p.m. weekday news it was anchored by Ana Cecila Mendez while Dalia did the 5 p.m.

    • Gavin Martinez says

      September 4, 2014 at 2:19 PM

      It also had weekend newscast before the team debuted anchored by Diennse Salinas. debuted weekend in 2012

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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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