The Lone Star Emmy awards were handed out on Saturday, at the Hilton Americas-Houston, and here’s the Chronicle‘s story on the winners:
KHOU (Channel 11) won the night’s biggest prize, for overall station excellence, while KPRC (Channel 2) won for best evening newscast, and Tristan Alfonzo of KRIV (Channel 26) won for outstanding news anchor.
Dallas’ WFAA won 25 Emmys to lead all Texas stations. KHOU was next with its 14. Other Houston stations winning awards included KRIV, seven; KTRK (Channel 13), five; KXLN (Channel 45), three; KPRC and KUHT (Channel 8), two each; and KLTJ (Channel 22), one.
Houston stations swept the awards in the investigative-reporting category, with Emmys going to KRIV’s Randy Wallace and Jim Dunham; KTRK’s Wayne Dolcefino, Steve Bivens and David Defranchi; and KHOU’s David Raziq and Chris Henao.
Among the multiple individual winners were Dolcefino; KHOU’s Jeremy Desel, Carolyn Mungo and Dan Lauck; KXLN’s Patricio Espinoza; and KRIV’s Greg Groogan.
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The ceremonies were to have been co-hosted by CBS News’ Dan Rather and Peter Van Sant, but Rather, in a video message, said “war and presidential politics” prevented him from attending.
He made no mention of the ongoing investigation into the fairness and accuracy of a report CBS aired in September about President George W. Bush’s service in the Texas Air National Guard.
Congratulations to all the winners!
And, as for that Dan Rather thing…oh, nevermind.
