Joe Trahan promoted to weeknight sports anchor, continuing legacy of WFAA’s award-winning sports department

DALLAS — Veteran sports activities anchor Joe Trahan will take the reins as weeknight sports activities anchor at WFAA following the retirement of Dale Hansen, who has spent 38 years with the station. Trahan has been a valued member of the WFAA sports activities crew for 18 years and can be part of Cynthia Izaguirre, Chris Lawrence and Pete Delkus on WFAA’s weeknight 10 p.m. newscast starting September 3, 2021.

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“Nobody is extra effectively appreciated or extra revered, by each our crew and by the DFW sports activities neighborhood than Joe Trahan,” stated WFAA President and Common Supervisor, Brad Ramsey. “His deep connections with the neighborhood and with key sports activities figures all through North Texas, alongside together with his imaginative and prescient for progressive sports activities storytelling, make for a really thrilling future.”

Trahan got here to WFAA as weekend sports activities anchor and reporter in 2003. He has led the station’s Dallas Cowboys beat, lined a number of Tremendous Bowls, World Collection, NBA Finals and a Stanley Cup Ultimate, in addition to instructed a whole bunch of tales showcasing North Texans.

“I am thrilled with this chance. The bar is ready excessive and I am wanting ahead to elevating what we do and persevering with the nice legacy of WFAA Sports activities,” Trahan stated. “That is house for me and my household and I do know firsthand sports activities means rather a lot to individuals of North Texas. After I’m on the ironmongery store or espresso store the conversations are passionate and I do know individuals care. I am going to do my finest to tell, entertain and have some enjoyable alongside the away whereas being of service to our neighborhood.”

Trahan has gained 15 Lone Star Emmy Awards, receiving the respect for six consecutive years within the sports activities reporter class. He has additionally gained two regional Edward R. Murrow Awards for sports activities reporting in 2008 and 2014. Trahan continues the legacy of two legendary sportscasters, Verne Lundquist and Dale Hansen, that led WFAA’s sports activities protection for a mixed 50 years.

“We’re so grateful to have somebody of Joe’s caliber tackle this position,” stated WFAA Vice President and Station Supervisor, Carolyn Mungo. “His years of expertise and data of the market, mixed together with his pure capacity to attach with an viewers is a win for each our workers at WFAA and for all of North Texas. I can’t await him to seize the highlight.”

Trahan is a fixture in the neighborhood. He has hosted WFAA’s broadcast of the American Coronary heart Affiliation’s Dallas Coronary heart Stroll for the previous a number of years and he has additionally hosted the North Texas Meals Financial institution Telethon. He’s on the Northern Texas PGA Charity Basis Board and he works carefully with the First Tee of Dallas.

“Joe is a very good individual, plain and easy” stated WFAA Government Information Director, Leslie McCardel. “What all of us admire about him is how he connects his deep data of sports activities to the spirit of what makes us all root for somebody.”

Trahan is a local Texan. He grew up in Houston, enjoying basketball and lettering in baseball at Strake Jesuit and is an alumnus of Loyola College in New Orleans. He started his profession in tv in 1989 on the manufacturing crew at TEGNA owned WWL-TV in New Orleans. His first job as an on-air anchor and reporter was at WCBD-TV in Charleston, S.C. in 1991. He returned to New Orleans in 1994 as sports activities anchor on the Fox affiliate, WVUE-TV, the place he spent 9 years.

Joe, his spouse, Amy and their two daughters make their house in Frisco.