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KTRE launches Telemundo news briefs

February 16, 2015 by Veronica Villafañe

John Carlos Estrada“Telemundo Noticias Breves con John-Carlos Estrada” debuts tonight, marking the first time local news has been produced in Spanish for the East Texas community.

The news briefs are produced by the Raycom-owned KTRE, the ABC affiliate in Lufkin, TX, which airs Telemundo on its digital subchannel 9.2.

John-Carlos Estrada, the anchor and managing editor of KTRE’s 6 and 10 pm newscasts since October 2014, will be in charge of producing and anchoring the Spanish-language news briefs, which will air on Telemundo Monday – Friday at 8pm station and four times throughout the night and early next morning.

“I’m so proud of the Raycom Media leadership and my news director for allowing me to launch this initiative in East TX,” John Carlos tells Media Moves. “There’s a large Hispanic population in East Texas that needs news delivered to them….These Spanish-language news briefs have also created a bilingual MMJ position at KTRE. The new MMJ will fill-in as the Spanish producer and anchor when I’m on vacation.”

Filed Under: People, TV & Radio Tagged With: John Carlos Estrada, KTRE, Telemundo

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  1. KYTX says

    February 16, 2015 at 7:51 PM

    This is not the first time a local newscast was produced for Spanish speaking residents of east Texas. In 2009 KYTX CBS 19 aired Azteca 18 a daily newscast produced in Spanish in Tyler Texas. This newscast no longer exist.

  2. Gavin Martinez says

    February 17, 2015 at 6:30 PM

    This is going to be a heavy work load for this guy 6PM,10PM then doing this spanish newscast and wake up early in the morning after whatever he got home 6 hours past to do the news breves heavy workload

  3. Gavin Martinez says

    February 17, 2015 at 6:32 PM

    unless the early morning is 12AM or pre-taped

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Hispanic media and entertainment contributor to Forbes.

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