Award-winning journalist and local media executive Raquel Amparo has been named President and General Manager of CBS News and Stations’ local businesses in Dallas-Fort Worth, including KTVT-TV (CBS 11), KTXA-TV (TXA 21), CBSN Dallas-Fort Worth and
CBSDFW.com. The announcement was made today by Wendy McMahon, President and Co-Head, CBS News and Stations, and Adrienne Roark, President, CBS Stations. Amparo will report directly to Roark and assume her new role on Monday, Sept. 27.
Amparo will be rejoining CBS Stations after having spent the past four years with KUVN-DT and KSTR-DT, the Univision Communications-owned stations in Dallas-Fort Worth. She joined the duopoly as News Director in December 2017 and was promoted to Vice President of News in November 2019. Three months later, she took on the added responsibility of being the regional content lead for all of Univision’s large-market stations in Texas as well as Chicago.
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