a.m. By 2012, the station's 6 p.m. newscast had ratings gains, boasting its highest viewership in November and December, as well as significant increases in all other time periods; the 10 p.m. broadcast also grew, besting KTRK for first in the timeslot for several consecutive months that year. KPRC-TV retitled its newscasts back to Channel 2 News in 2015. In January 2020, Bill Balleza retired from KPRC-TV. Two months later, Kris Gutierrez, who was previously with KPRC-TV from 2003 to 2007, rejoined KPRC-TV as Balleza's replacement. Gutierrez, in between his stints for KPRC-TV, was a Fox News Channel correspondent and an anchor for WBBM-TV in Chicago, as well as for NBC owned-and-operated station KXAS-TV in the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex. In January 2021, KPRC-TV's newscasts were retitled as KPRC 2 News. Dominique Sachse departed from KPRC-TV on October 29, 2021. Three days later, the station announced that former KPRC reporter and weekend anchor Daniella Guzman (who had anchored at NBC owned-and-operated stations WMAQ-TV in Chicago and KNBC in Los Angeles) will succeed Sachse; Guzman returned to KPRC-TV on January 12, 2022. Gutierrez departed from KPRC-TV in February 2022 and was later succeeded (officially on June 20) by Keith Garvin, a former ABC News correspondent who had joined KPRC-TV in August 2012 as news anchor and reporter. Notable current on-air staff Melanie Camp – correspondent for Houston Life (2022–present) Daniella Guzman – weekday anchor (was previously with KPRC-TV as a reporter and weekend anchor from 2006–2012) Notable former on-air staff Mark Alford – reporter and weekend anchor (1995–1998; later with WDAF-TV in Kansas City, now elected to the United States House of Representatives in ) Gayle Anderson – "2 On Your Side" reporter/midday anchor (1986–1991; now at KTLA in Los Angeles) Dr. Charles "Chuck" Berry – House Physician for Big 2 News (1977-1980s, deceased) Chris Chandler – 1960s reporter and on camera personality who appeared as himself in the John Wayne movie Hellfighters Bill Enis – sports director (1960s–1973, deceased) Ron Franklin – sports director (1980–1987; formerly play-by-play announcer for ESPN; deceased) Joanne Herring – host of The Joanne King Show (1974–1979; now retired) Wes Hohenstein – weekday morning meteorologist (2003–2006; now at WNCN in Raleigh) Kay Bailey Hutchison – known on-air as Kay Bailey, Channel 2's first female reporter (1967–1972; later a Republican Senator from Texas) Tom Jarriel – worked behind the scenes in the news department as a reporter for