by aging gas pipeline couplings (an investigation that was featured on the PBS documentary series Exposé: America's Investigative Reports in the episode "Beneath the North Texas Dirt"). On September 12, 2013, WFAA debuted an hour-long weekday 4:00 p.m. newscast, which competes against existing hour-long newscasts in that slot on KXAS and KTVT. Notable current on-air staff Pete Delkus (AMS and NWA Seals of Approval) – chief meteorologist Tiffany Liou – reporter Alex Rozier – reporter Notable former on-air staff Ralph Baker Jr. – host of The Group And Chapman and Sump'n Else (1964–1970; was also at KLIF during the same years; later with KRLD radio and KTEN in Sherman, Texas, also was a model for Sanger-Harris and the Kim Dawson Agency) Julie Bologna – weekend morning meteorologist (2011–2016) Ron Chapman – host of The Group And Chapman and Sump'n Else (1964–1968; was simultaneously with KLIF during that period, left WFAA for KVIL) Aaron Chimbel – mobile journalist (2006–2009; now a journalism professor at Texas Christian University) Lin Sue Cooney – anchor/reporter (1980–1984; last at KPNX in Phoenix) Ron Corning – Daybreak anchor (2011–2019; currently host of The Morning After on KDAF) Troy Dungan – chief weathercaster (1976–2007; later at KTXD-TV as co-host of The Texas Daily) Bill Evans – meteorologist (1987–1989; now at WLNG in Sag Harbor, New York) Shon Gables – Daybreak weekend co-anchor (2010–2014; now at WANF in Atlanta) Chris Gailus – Daybreak co-anchor (2000–2003; now at CHAN-DT in Vancouver) David Garcia – weekend anchor/reporter (1965–1968; later with ABC and KPSP-TV in Palm Springs, California; deceased) Leeza Gibbons – reporter/co-host of PM Magazine (early 1980s) Dale Hansen – sports director (1983–2021) Don Harris – reporter/anchor (1967–?; became a reporter for NBC News, was killed in Guyana in 1978) Brad Hawkins – Daybreak anchor (now with Southwest Airlines) Jerry Haynes – host of Peppermint Place, (the WFAA-produced local morning show) The Early Show, Dallas Bandstand and The Julie Bennell Show (1949–1970 and 1975–1996) Jackie Hyland – Daybreak anchor/reporter (2005–2007; now an anchor at WRAL-TV in Raleigh, North Carolina) Iola Johnson – anchor/reporter (1973–1985; last with KTXA as host of Positively Texas) Charlie Jones – sports director (?–1965; also with ABC Sports at the time; later with NBC Sports, died on June 15, 2008) Andrea Joyce – sports reporter (1987–1988; later with ESPN, CBS Sports and NBC Sports) Verne Lundquist – sports anchor/host of Bowling for Dollars (1967–1983; now at