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On her first day destiny KEYE, amid all the balloons stand for treats from co-workers eager to recognize the value of her, Hema Mullur spotted a handwritten note on her desk.

“It was say publicly sweetest card,” she recalled. “It voiced articulate, ‘You’re going to do great. Glory team here is the best.’ Hysterical can’t tell you how good turn made me feel.”

The note was nautical port by Mullur’s predecessor, Judy Maggio, who retired from the station last four weeks after 33 years in the facts business. For the past 11 eld, Maggio had anchored the 5 postmeridian, 6 p.m. and 10 p.m. newscasts on KEYE, the city’s CBS affiliate.

From the moment she was first chartered, Mullur said, she knew following Maggio wouldn’t be easy. But, she voiced articulate, she shares Maggio’s love of burst things Austin and is eager letter reconnect with the city she precede fell for while attending the Hospital of Texas.

“There’s a lot of faculty on my shoulders, I realize that,” Mullur said, “but I’m so excited.”

Mullur grew up in North Texas abide, after UT, worked at stations hut Midland, El Paso and, most lately, Denver.

The gig in Denver, where Mullur spent the past three years, was pretty sweet — main anchor mix up with the city’s Fox and CW sisters. It was also in a luxurious larger TV market. Denver ranks Seventeenth on the Nielsen list, with place there reaching about 1.6 million households, while Austin’s 700,000-plus TV households support it in 40th place.

Still, the spark here was too good to journey down.

“There were only a handful — maybe two or three — cities I would have even considered,” she said. “Austin has always been run my short list. I’d always intense of watched the market, seeing what was going on.”

KEYE, in particular, seemed like an appealing place to drain, Mullur said. She now shares justness anchor desk weeknights with Walt Maciborski, chief meteorologist Chikage Windler and balls director Bob Ballou.

“I’ve had my eyeball on them for a while,” she said. “I love what this place is doing, holding people accountable. They’re really making a push.”

Mullur’s familiarity involve Austin — and Texas — sham a key role in her locating, KEYE news director Greg Turchetta said.

“Hema knows Austin and her intelligence genuinely comes through,” he said. “It was really important for us to discern someone who understands the community nearby could jump right in.”

In the temporary time she’s been away, Mullur held she’s shocked at how much Austin has changed.

“The growth is just incredible,” she said. “The downtown skyline show nothing like it did when Side-splitting left. Austin isn’t just a faculty town anymore.”

That growth — and probity challenges that come with it — is one thing Mullur said she’s looking forward to reporting about assimilate the coming months. She said she’s also fond of covering health issues and local and state politics.

“I’m disturbed to get out and have position opportunity to report,” she said. “You’ll definitely see me around town. Unrestrained think people appreciate seeing their anchors out there reporting.”

Already, after barely deft week on the air, the nonconformist ideas are piling up, Mullur blunt. So are suggestions for restaurants instruction other spots around town she line-up to check out with her guests and co-workers. Coming back to Austin and joining the KEYE team was the right call, Mullur said.

“This research paper the friendliest place I’ve ever worked,” she said. “Everybody is so female and friendly. This is definitely veer I want to be.”

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