SAN ANTONIO, Texas — 12News won a Lone Star Emmy Saturday night for a newscast covering the Jasper wildfires during the summer of 2023.
Jordan Williams accepted the award and an Emmy statuette Saturday night during the 2024 Lone Star Regional Emmy Awards ceremony in San Antonio.
A "12News at 10pm" newscast featuring the Jasper County wildfires in the summer of 2023 won the Evening Newscast - Smaller Markets category.
This year's award marks the fifth time in the past six years that 12News has won the Regional Emmy in the small market evening newscast category.
"This is for all of my talented colleagues and for the firefighters who worked so hard last year to save homes during wildfire season," Williams wrote on Facebook Saturday night.
Named on the award was Jordan Williams, anchor and executive producer, along with Brenda Matute, field anchor and Korbyn Lee, producer.
The award is part of the Regional Emmy Awards Program and is affiliated with the Lone Star Emmy Chapter of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences.
Broadcast news professionals from the 19 television markets in Texas are eligible to enter the Lone Star Emmy Awards contest.
Those markets are...
- Abilene-Sweetwater
- Amarillo
- Austin
- Beaumont-Point Arthur
- Corpus Christi
- Dallas-Fort Worth
- El Paso
- Harlingen-Weslaco-Brownsville-McAllen
- Houston
- Laredo
- Lubbock
- Midland-Odessa,
- San Angelo
- San Antonio
- Sherman-Ada
- Tyler-Longview-Lufkin-Nacogdoches
- Victoria
- Waco-Temple-Bryan
- Wichita Falls-Lawton
This is a developing story. We will update with more if and when we receive more confirmed information.
