Categories: OLD Media Moves

“Nightly Business Report” opens Houston bureau

“Nightly Business Report,” which airs on more than 200 public television stations across the country, announced Thursday an agreement with HoustonPBS and KUHF Houston Public Radio to open a new Houston bureau.

It’s the first bureau in Texas for the show and allows the program to provide its viewers with coverage of the major business stories in Houston and Texas.

“Nightly Business Report” has previously announced earlier this year new bureaus in Phoenix, Denver and the Silicon Valley.

“We are excited to expand into Texas and provide our viewers with up close reports on the most important business news stories of the day in Houston, one of the country’s leading economic and social centers,” said Mykalai Kontilai, chairman and chief executive of NBR Worldwide, in a statement. “The opening of the Houston bureau is the latest step in Nightly Business Report’s ongoing effort to improve the viewer experience.”

“Nightly Business Report” launched in Miami in January 1979. It became a national program in 1981. The show was acquired in 2010 by Kontilai, who has been overhauling its operations.

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Chris Roush

Chris Roush was the dean of the School of Communications at Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Connecticut. He was previously Walter E. Hussman Sr. Distinguished Professor in business journalism at UNC-Chapel Hill. He is a former business journalist for Bloomberg News, Businessweek, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Tampa Tribune and the Sarasota Herald-Tribune. He is the author of the leading business reporting textbook "Show me the Money: Writing Business and Economics Stories for Mass Communication" and "Thinking Things Over," a biography of former Wall Street Journal editor Vermont Royster.