Longtime Texoma newsman, Gary Carter, joins KTEN News
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Jan 1, 2010
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DENISON, TX – KTEN-TV, General Manager, Craig Marrs announced Monday, the addition of Gary Carter, award-winning writer and editor for the Herald Democrat newspaper, as assignment editor for KTEN News.

For the better part of two decades, Carter, a Denison native, chronicled some of Texoma's biggest news stories including the Floods of 2007, Tornadoes in Denison, Van Alystyn and Collin County, and the fight in the effort to remove salt from Lake Texoma.  Carter also provided light-hearted fare through his popular and comprehensive gastronomic guide and  Sites & Bites food column. For nearly a decade, Carter could be heard weekly on local radio sharing tips for movies and dining out in Texoma.

As city editor for Texoma’s largest daily newspaper, Carter helped foster dozens of Associated Press award-winning writers and photographers as they chronicled the daily lives and events of those in Texoma.

“Gary’s rich knowledge of Texoma and excellent journalistic credentials bring an important new dimension to the KTEN news team, “ Marrs said.  “I look forward to his contributions as he leads our news coverage.” 

Carter joins a news team bolstered by popular, long time news anchor Lisanne Anderson, and  Alan Mitchell, Texoma’s most trusted weather authority.

“I am excited to have Gary on board as part of the team, “ Anderson said.  “His years of experience in Texoma will help us broaden our connections into the local communities we serve.”

“Texoma has been my home for nearly four decades and to be a part of the KTEN news team and to continue to be a daily part of the lives of all my fellow Texomans is a real thrill for me,” Carter said. “I hope to share my experience and local knowledge and enrich the news experience for KTEN viewers.”

KTEN-TV, owned and operated by Lockwood Broadcasting, broadcasts the NBC network and the CW network.  

About KTEN-TV:

KTEN-TV, owned and operated by Lockwood Broadcasting, broadcasts the NBC network and the CW network. 

KTEN (also referred to as K-TEN or KTEN News) is the NBC affiliate located in Sherman, Ada, Ardmore market. The station also serves Ardmore, Ada, Durant Oklahoma and Sherman, Denison, Grayson, Fannin, Lamar and Cooke Counties in Texas.  KTEN has newsrooms in both Oklahoma and Texas, located respectively at Ardmore and Denison. The station also has the largest television tower in the state of Oklahoma, located in the town Bromide. Noted on the website Wikipedia.org as one of the tallest structures in the world.

History -  KTEN, which signed on the air in 1954, is a rarity among small-market TV stations. Although they had an NBC affiliation since its sign-on, it has also served as a primary ABC affiliate for most of its 40-plus years and also had a Fox affiliation during the 1980s, and 1990s.  Both ABC and Fox would be dropped by 1998 as they began to focus exclusively on its NBC schedule. In the Fall of 2006, KTEN-DT one of KTEN’s digital subcarriers, will start airing programming from The CW Television Network.

Newscasts

KTEN News Today – Weekdays, 5:00-7:00AM

KTEN News at 5 – Weeknights, 5:00-5:30PM

KTEN News at 6 – Weeknights, 6:00-6:30PM

Texoma CW News at 9 – Nightly, 9:00-9:30PM

KTEN News at 10 – Nightly, 10:00-10:35PM