Tracy Kornet
Tracy Kornet is a five-time Emmy Award-winning host, reporter, and news anchor of CBS 11 News at 4pm, and fill-in anchor on CBS11 News at 5, 6, and 10.
Tracy came to KTVT-TV/KTXA-TV in 2006 to anchor the launch of TXA21 News First in Prime, a two-hour local primetime newscast which enjoyed a five-year run. In 2008, she became co-anchor of CBS11 News at 4, which she has anchored ever since. Her favorite assignments have taken her to New York City, San Francisco, and Miami to follow the Texas Rangers World Series runs and the Dallas Mavericks’ NBA Championship.
Tracy’s first official news job was a morning anchor in Lexington, Kentucky, where her 3 children were born. She spent eight years there reporting, hosting, and anchoring news. In 2000 she moved to Phoenix, Arizona to launch and host its first-ever morning magazine show, Sonoran Living LIVE. On the show’s first anniversary, September 11, 2011, the World Trade Center terrorist attacks compelled her to return to the news desk. She anchored extensive news coverage that day, and soon began anchoring the morning news, in addition to her role as talk show host.
Tracy says her most exciting television moments were co-hosting The View in New York, appearing on Good Morning America, and interviewing Will Ferrell and the cast of Saturday Night Live. She has a passion for music, travel and foreign languages and studied French, Italian, and Japanese. She was an International Relations major at Vanderbilt University, spending intermittent semesters in Japan working at Tokyo Disneyland and for a Japanese pop star as a backup singer/dancer. She graduated from the University of Kentucky with a degree in Communications.
In her spare time Tracy sings with local bands in the DFW area and attends concerts and musicals whenever she can. She says her all-time favorite hobby is cheering on her kids. Luke , Nicole, and John all play college basketball: Luke at Vanderbilt University, Nicole at the University of Oklahoma, and John at Ouachita Baptist University. Her husband Frank, a former NBA player, is a high school basketball coach at Liberty Christian School in Argyle, Texas.
TVTracy’s Turn: Why You Can Choose Your Family
This is my first day back to work since Christmas Eve, and it feels like it has been a couple of months. On my drive in, I sifted through the events of the last two weeks.
Pet Owners Shelling Out Big Bucks For Christmas Gifts
From the functional to the adorable, pet parents are shelling out big bucks for that furry little someone in their life this holiday season.
‘Gifts For Moms’ Organization Expanding To Single Dads
A North Texas organization that remembers single mothers with gifts at Christmas is expanding its mission.
Coat Drive To Honor Fallen Texas Soldier
The family of a fallen Texas soldier is hoping your old coats can keep others warm. And the partnership between a surrogate mom and a North Texas business will help the homeless this holiday.
Webcam What’s Up? Today at 4
Tracy Kornet talks about the two Texas women cavity searched on the freeway…and introduces us to “Lady,” the CBS news apprentice
The New Fashion Rules For Working Women
Working women across America have had a major makeover in the last few years, changing jackets and pants for dresses and sweaters.
North Texas Hospital Recording Studio Helping Sick Kids
Fighting cancer is no fun for anyone. But for teenager Tori Pence it’s a lot more tolerable when combined with a little musical collaboration and now she can do that right inside Cook Children’s Hospital in Forth Worth.
TVTracy’s Turn: What I Am Most Thankful For
Out from the tunnel, the team emerges. There is my Nicole, dressed in red OU warm-ups, curled hair pulled back in a ponytail with a thick, black headband to hold it all in place.
TVTracy’s Turn: Thanksgiving Traditions
CBS 11 News anchor Tracy Kornet shares some Thanksgiving traditions from her family, and asks viewers to weigh in with their own traditions and memories.
Website Promises Best Deal Or They Pay The Difference
A new retail website proclaims that it is “the mythbuster of shopping,” using technology and predictions to make hard decisions simple.
Schieffer In Good Company At Bragan Awards Dinner
Bob Schieffer was back home in Fort Worth to receive the Bobby Bragan Lifetime Achievement Award Wednesday night, but it was the 37 other people who were honored along with him who stole the show.
Halloween’s Over, Time For Christmas
Even though it’s just the first week of November, and temperatures were nearly 90 degrees outside, the Christmas decorations are already up at the Kornet home.
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