{"id":11489,"date":"2026-11-13T12:51:45","date_gmt":"2026-11-13T12:51:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/originaltastex.com\/?p=11489"},"modified":"2026-11-13T12:51:45","modified_gmt":"2026-11-13T12:51:45","slug":"caroline-collins-leaving-fox-26-houston","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/originaltastex.com\/?p=11489","title":{"rendered":"Caroline Collins leaving FOX 26 Houston"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Caroline Collins is leaving her evening anchor position at FOX 26 Houston KRIV this Thursday, industry sources tell mikemcguff.com exclusively.<\/p>\n<p><b>UPDATE<\/b>: <i>Watch Caroline Collins sign off from FOX 26 Houston in the video above.<\/i><\/p>\n<div class=\"google-anno-skip google-anno-sc\" tabindex=\"0\" role=\"link\" aria-label=\"Stream News\" data-google-vignette=\"false\" data-google-interstitial=\"false\">StreamNews<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>According to reports I&#8217;m hearing, Collins spoke with some newsroom staff about her departure. I&#8217;m also told the exit is amicable and that no other staff members are leaving as part of the move.<\/p>\n<p>There is no word yet on where Collins is going next. Stay tuned.<\/p>\n<p>Collins <a href=\"https:\/\/mikemcguff.blogspot.com\/2022\/11\/caroline-collins-joins-fox-26-houston.html\">joined FOX 26 in December 2022<\/a> to anchor the station&#8217;s evening newscasts, making her on-air <a href=\"https:\/\/mikemcguff.blogspot.com\/2023\/01\/caroline-collins-debuts-on-fox-26.html\">debut on January 2, 2023<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>When she arrived, Collins was initially paired with Jonathan Martin on the 5 p.m. and 9 p.m. newscasts, while Rashi Vats anchored the 6 p.m. and 10 p.m. broadcasts. She filled the anchor opening left by Kaitlin Monte.<\/p>\n<p>Collins came to Houston from KSEE24 in Fresno, California, where she anchored mornings since December 2020.<\/p>\n<p>Before Fresno, she worked as a weekend evening anchor and multimedia journalist at WFMJ-TV 21 in Youngstown, Ohio.<\/p>\n<p>Collins began her television news career at WJET\/WFXP in Erie, Pennsylvania, serving as a general assignment reporter, fill-in anchor, and producer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Caroline Collins is leaving her evening anchor position at FOX 26 Houston KRIV this Thursday, industry sources tell mikemcguff.com exclusively. UPDATE: Watch Caroline Collins sign off from FOX 26 Houston in the video above.&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"brizy_media":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/originaltastex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11489","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/originaltastex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/originaltastex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/originaltastex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/originaltastex.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11489"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/originaltastex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11489\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11490,"href":"https:\/\/originaltastex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11489\/revisions\/11490"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/originaltastex.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/originaltastex.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/originaltastex.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}