01:41 PM CST on Sunday, February 27, 2005

11 News Staff Reports

HOUSTON –– KHOU-TV Channel 11 has named Keith Connors Executive News Director. Connors comes to KHOU from Belo owned WCNC-TV in Charlotte, North Carolina where he has been Executive News Director since March of 1998.

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KHOU-TV Channel 11 has named Keith Connors Executive News Director.

“I’m delighted to have Keith join KHOU to carry the tradition of award winning quality journalism we provide our viewers every day,” says KHOU Peter Diaz President and General Manager. “Keith has a distinguished career in broadcast journalism and is superbly qualified to lead the 11News team.”

Connors will join KHOU in March. “I’m honored to be joining a newsroom with a nationwide reputation for outstanding journalism and community service,” according to Connors. “I look forward to working with 11News to continue this tradition of excellence.”

In 2004, under Connors’ direction WCNC-TV won a number of prestigious national journalism awards including the George Foster Peabody award, the DuPont-Columbia award and the Scripps Howard Foundation award. In the three years prior, the WCNC newsroom earned three regional Edward R. Murrow awards for overall excellence.

Prior to serving as Executive News Director of WCNC-TV in Charlotte, Connors was Executive News Director of Belo’s WVEC-TV in Norfolk, VA; News Director for WOKR-TV in Rochester, NY; Executive Producer at WTOL in Toledo, OH and held several news management positions with WKRN in Nashville, TN.

Connors replaces KHOU Vice President News, Mike Devlin. Devlin will become station manager of Belo owned WFAA-TV in Dallas on February 28.

KHOU-TV is part of Belo Corp., one of the nation’s largest media companies with a diversified group of market-leading television, newspaper, cable and interactive media assets. A Fortune 1000 company with approximately 7,600 employees and $1.4 billion in annual revenues, Belo operates media franchises in some of America’s most dynamic markets and regions, including Texas, the Northwest, the Southwest, Rhode Island, and the Mid-Atlantic. Belo owns 19 television stations (six in the top 15 markets); owns or operates seven cable news channels; and manages one television station through a local marketing agreement. Belo’s daily newspapers are The Dallas Morning News, The Providence Journal, The Press-Enterprise (Riverside, CA) and the Denton Record-Chronicle (Denton, TX). Belo operates more than 30 Web sites, several interactive alliances and a broad range of Internet-based products. Additional information, including earnings releases and corporate communications, is available online at www.belo.com. For more information contact Wendy Burkeen, APR, 713-521-4312.