A man has been charged in a hit-and-run death in North Austin. …
Updated: Thursday, 05 Nov 2009, 11:26 AM CST
Published : Thursday, 05 Nov 2009, 11:23 AM CST
What's your name?
Shane Allen
What's your position?
Austin News Assignments Manager
(Loose Definition: News, content and logistics coordinator
for the Austin News brand)
When did you start at KXAN Austin News?
July, 2006
What was your most memorable story?
Definitely my investigation into
Austin
police officers caught running red lights.
How did you get started in TV?
I started as an unpaid intern at KBTV in Beaumont, TX working
on their night-side desk. (This was while I still had a full-time
day job as the Marketing & Advertising Director / Webmaster of
www.usflag.com) Shortly after my
internship started, I was offered a full-time job at KBTV as their
Assignments Manager. I quickly quit my
usflag.com job
and took the job at KBTV!
What's your hometown?
I was born in Lake Charles, LA. I was raised in the Florida
panhandle, near Destin/Ft. Walton Beach.
What's your favorite thing about Austin?
The wineries in the Hill Country.
What's your guilty pleasure?
Hell’s Kitchen on Fox. (I know—shame on me for
not picking an NBC show.) I do like NBC’s Will & Grace
and own every season on DVD.
Tell us about your family.
I live in Southeast Austin with my fiance, Andy, who works
for a major airline, and two dogs—Molly and Tanner. Andy
flies to work every morning from Austin (seriously). My
mother’s side of the family lives in Southeast Texas /
Southwest Louisiana. My father’s side of the family lives in
Florida. I have four brothers and three sisters.