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Ron Oliveira is an award-winning journalist and has spent the past 29 years working in the television industry.
Ron graduated from the University of Texas at Austin with a degree in Radio-Television and Film in 1976. He is a native of Brownsville, Texas.
He started his career as a television news anchor in 1977 at KGBT-TV, the CBS affiliate in Harlingen, Texas. In 1980 he moved to Austin where he eventually became lead anchor for KVUE, the ABC affiliate. Several times, Ron was part of the KVUE anchor team that won Best Newscast in the USA.
In 1994, Ron expanded his career in television when he started and became co-owner of KNVA TV, which was the Warner Brothers affiliate in Austin. Then in 1999, he helped launch and became co-owner of KTLM TV, a Telemundo affiliate in the Rio Grande Valley. While at KTLM, Ron sharpened up on his Spanish and started a news operation at the station.
In 2005, Ron was hired by the CBS network to join the KEYE news team in Austin and the KTVT newsteam in Dallas. Besides helping to rear four children, Ron is also very active in the community.
He currently serves on the boards of the Lola Wright Foundation, Any Baby Can and the advisory councils of Leadership Austin and the Salvation Army Adult Rehabilitation Center.
He is a former member of the Executive Board of the Greater Austin Chamber of Commerce, the Better Business Bureau and the Texas Secretary of State's Election Advisory Committee.
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