Ron Trevino is one of KHOU’s award winning journalists, bringing more than 30 years of television news experience to the anchor desk -- 25 of those years, right here at KHOU. Ron anchors 11 News This Morning and 11 News at Noon.

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Ron Trevino

He’s a recipient of the Dallas Press Club’s Katie Award for Best Major Market Newscast and winner of the United Press International National Broadcast Award for Spot News.

The Texas native began his television career while still in high school, at KRIS-TV and KEDT-TV in Corpus Christi, and continued honing his craft at KIII-TV while attending Del Mar College. He continued his education at the University of Houston and joined KHOU in 1982 as a producer.

At various times at Channel 11 he’s handled reporting, anchoring and producing duties, including a stint as executive producer of the morning news. His assignments have taken him from the war-torn streets of Sarajevo to the masterpiece-filled halls of the Vatican.

Over the years, Ron has been very active in the community, volunteering his time and efforts to a number of local charities and causes including: the American Cancer Society, the American Heart Association, the American Diabetes Association, the Tuberous Sclerosis Alliance of Houston, Courtney’s Crusade, the Escape Family Resource Center and many area schools and hospitals.

Ron is married, and he and his wife Betsy have two children.

Vicente Arenas joined KHOU-TV and in January 2004 as weekend anchor and weekday reporter. Before joining the 11 News team, Vicente worked at WOAI-TV in San Antonio as the weekday morning anchor and consumer reporter. Before moving to San Antonio, Vicente was a reporter with KTRK-TV for nearly 5 years, primarily covering the crime beat.

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Vicente Arenas

An award winning journalist, Vicente is a member of several professional Hispanic organizations and served as president of the San Antonio Association of Hispanic Journalists. Vicente has plans of re-joining the Houston Area Hispanic Media professional organization.

Born and raised in a small town in Southeast Texas, Vicente graduated from the University of Texas at Austin with a degree in Journalism.

KHOU-TV meteorologist Mario Gomez anchors weekend weathercasts on 11 News.

Gomez graduated with a degree in meteorology from the University of Colorado. He served as an air weather officer in the United States Air Force and worked for the National Weather Service in Denver, Colorado. Gomez is a member of the American Meteorological Association and the National Weather Association. He maintains Television Seals of Approval in both organizations.

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Mario Gomez

He is the father of three and participates in many of Houston’s charitable events. Gomez served as host of the first annual Houston SPCA telethon in 1995 which raised more than $100,000.

Karla Barguiarena joined KHOU-TV as a general assignments reporter in January of 2006. Previously she anchored the 5 pm newscast for KTMD, Telemundo affiliate in Houston.

Born in Monterrey, Nuevo Leon, Mexico, Karla grew up in Brownsville, Texas. She graduated from Texas A&M University with a bachelor’s degree in Speech Communication and later from Boston University with a master’s degree in Broadcast Journalism.

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Karla Barguiarena

Karla is a member of the Houston Association of Hispanic Media Professionals, is on the board of the Fairy Godmother Project and has served as honorary co-chair for the Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure.

Mexico Bureau Chief Angela Kocherga files regular news stories and 11 Up Close reports for KHOU TV from our bureau based in Mexico city.

Channel 11 is the only local station with a full-time Mexico City bureau providing coverage of Houston’s family, business and cultural connections to Mexico.

Angela opened the bureau for KHOU in 1999 to complement well-established print coverage by Belo’s newspaper The Dallas Morning News.

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Angela Kocherga

Before joining KHOU’s news team she worked for our sister station in Dallas WFAA as a general assignment reporter and producer of “La Vida” a weekly news magazine.

An award-winning journalist, Angela has covered Mexico her entire career beginning as a reporter for public radio and local television in El Paso/Juarez.

Angela is a graduate of the University of Texas at Austin. She grew up in the Rio Grande Valley city of Brownsville and Guadalajara, Mexico.

Award-winning broadcast journalist Alex Sanz joined 11 News in 2007. His live reports are seen throughout the week on “11 News This Morning” and “11 News at Noon.”

He moved to Houston after working as a general assignment reporter at WTHR-TV in Indianapolis. At WTHR, Alex was part of a team of reporters sent to cover the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina along the Gulf Coast. He chronicled the journey of the Indiana National Guard in Mississippi through his reports as an embedded reporter. He also traveled to Mexico with the Indianapolis police and fire departments to report on their international training mission. His series, “Badges without Borders,” received the Indiana Society of Professional Journalists first place award for Best Coverage of Minority Issues. The judges called it a story “well traveled, well told and well shot.” While at WTHR Alex also contributed reports to CNN, MSNBC and NBC Weather Plus.

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Alex Sanz

Alex was a morning anchor and reporter at News 12 The Bronx in New York City before joining WTHR in 2003. At News 12, he anchored the weekday morning newscasts and covered the Mayor Michael Bloomberg administration. During his time in The Bronx, he co-anchored News 12 Network coverage of the Blackout of 2003, Operation Iraqi Freedom and the loss of space shuttle Columbia. He also co-anchored News 12’s weekly public affairs program, “2 & 1: Two Reporters and the Person of the Week.”

He joined News 12 The Bronx in 2001 after working as a freelance reporter at WFTS-TV in Tampa. His career in television news began at the Channel One Network in Los Angeles where he covered news across the country and around the world. As an anchor and correspondent for “Channel One News,” nearly nine million people in 12,000 secondary schools nationwide watched Alex’s reports. His travels took him to more than 30 states and nearly a dozen countries. While at Channel One, he covered the devastation of Hurricane Mitch in Central America, the drug war in Mexico, the White House, the worst tornadoes in Oklahoma’s history and the Academy Awards.

In 2000, The Imagen Foundation honored his feature “Hero Street” about the small town of Silvis, Ill. And in 1999, “Channel One News” followed him on a personal journey to Cuba where he traced his family’s history. Prior to joining the Channel One Network in 1998, Alex worked in morning-drive radio. He anchored news headlines at WMMS-FM in Cleveland and anchored news and produced at WPLL-FM in Miami. His career in journalism began years earlier at the “South Florida Sun-Sentinel,” where he reported and wrote news and feature stories for the Metro, Lifestyle and Community News sections of the newspaper as a freelance writer. While there, he received awards for his reporting and writing and was honored as a most valuable staffer.

Alex is a South Florida native who studied broadcast journalism at Florida International University in Miami. He and his wife live in Houston.

Nellie Gonzalez is a Houston native who has worked in both television and film on local, regional and national levels.

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Nellie Gonzalez

She has been featured on Crossing Jordan, NCIS and 24 with Kiefer Sutherland.

Nellie is not only an on screen talent, she is an award winning writer and producer with her 35 mm short “Ink on Paper” which took first place at the World fest Film Festival and was screened at the Cannes Film festival in France.

She has now embarked on a new project “Houstonisimo” for CBS KHOU Channel 11.

The Latin based entertainment show done in English is on the cutting edge featuring celebrities, athletes, musicians, local entrepreneurs, restaurants and more in a nut shell what’s hip, hot and happening in Houston.

Some of the past guests include Robert Rodriguez, Quentin Tarrentino, Kurt Russell, Rosario Dawson, Carlos Mencia, Mario Lopez, Marc Anthony and so many more. 

Nellie is trailblazing the way for future shows of its kind.

She has been invited to emcee The Gulf Coast film festival with Hal Wixon and she has been invited to join Mayor Bill White in presenting the Hispanic Heritage award.

Nellie is proud and humbled by the opportunities she has been given and how she has been embraced by the Houston community that she loves so much.