Chuck Schechner

  Chuck is an award-winning reporter with decades of experience in Texas, Oklahoma and Kansas.   Chuck joined KRLD in 2002.   Since then he has covered the first anniversary ceremony in New York of  the 9/11 attack, the Columbia shuttle disaster from Johnson Space Center and rode out Hurricane Rita in a Beaumont high rise office building giving live reports.

He has won numerous awards including several from the Texas Medical Association for stories focusing on medical issues.  He’s been part of KRLD’s Edward R. Murrow Award for severe weather coverage that included  his live reports as he witnessed a deadly tornado hit near Fort Worth.  He’s been awarded numerous Associated Press Broadcasters awards and a Dallas Press Club Katie award.

Chuck has a wide variety of news stories in his experience.  He’s covered both Republican and Democratic presidential conventions.   Born and raised in Chicago, Chuck moved to Dallas while in  high school graduating from Thomas Jefferson High School.   He now heads the KRLD Fort Worth bureau.