Son of station's top gun to report for planned CBS11/TXA21 entertainment series
05/08/08 08:21 AM
By ED BARK
A new locally produced entertainment series projected to premiere in June on CBS11 and TXA21 will have at least one unique twist.
Its two-person reporting team includes Michael Mauldin, son of CBS11/TXA21 president and general manager Steve Mauldin.
A power point presentation of the program, obtained by unclebarky.com, also names and pictures CBS11 traffic reporter Teresa Frosini as host of Red Hot Tickets.
The show's other reporter is Texas Christian University graduate Hilary Kennedy, who lately has hosted the "Just Fun TV" segments for KFWD-TV (Channel 52). No further biographical information could be found on Michael Mauldin, listed as one of Steve Mauldin's four children in his cbs11tv.com biography.
Hot Tickets is scheduled to run twice weekly on TXA21 on Thursdays at 11 p.m. and Saturdays at 6 p.m. It also would bump the last half-hour, from 8:30 to 9 a.m., of CBS11's Saturday morning news program.
Red Hot Tickets is pitched as "an innovative and refreshing local half-hour entertainment program that takes viewers on an energized ride to the hottest tickets in town." It also will have a companion webcast.
The show's producer, Steve Kirk, recently sent a letter to TCU's broadcast journalism department seeking students to help create and produce Red Hot Tickets.
"It is a unique opportunity for selected students to be hands-on involved in real-world multi-media production and distribution," the letter said in part.
In late March, CBS11 and TXA21 laid off more than 50 staffers as part of a corporate-mandated downsizing that affected most of CBS' owned-and-operated stations. Evictees included on-camera personnel Robert Riggs, Maria Arita, Kaushal Patel and Chuck Fisher.