Kris Gutierrez is leaving Chicago for a move back to Texas. He leaves WBBM in February and starts a new anchor job at KXAS, the NBC O&O in Dallas.
He’ll be co-anchoring NBC 5 News Monday-Friday at 5 pm. .
This marks a return to Dallas for Kris, who left his job as Fox News correspondent to join KXAS as morning co-anchor in March 2012.
Kris has also worked as a reporter and fill-in anchor for KPRC-TV in Houston (2004-2007) and KVUE-TV in Austin (2001-04).
He got his start as a reporter and weekend anchor in 1999 at CBS at CBS affiliate KXII-TV in Sherman, TX.