Art Rascon

 ( American Latter Day Saints ) 

In 1994, Rascon moved to Miami as a CBS Evening News correspondent. While there, he reported on major events that occurred in the southeastern U.S., Mexico, the Caribbean, including reporting on a host of stories out of Cuba and South and Central America. Rascon also covered the Oklahoma City bombing, conflicts and unrest in Haiti, Peru, Mexico, and hurricanes in the region. He interviewed both Manuel Noriega and Daniel Ortega. His spot coverage of Hurricane Opal on CBS Radio and CBS News earned him a national Edward R. Murrow award. He and the 48 Hours team also received an Emmy nomination from The National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences for their coverage of Hurricane Fran.

In 1998, Rascon moved to Houston's ABC-owned station, KTRK-TV where he anchored many newscasts, including a long stint as co-anchor of the 11 a.m. and 5 p.m. editions of 13 Eyewitness News. He has reported on domestic and international events and conflicts, including events in the Middle East, Iraq, Serbia, Kosovo, Bosnia and Central America. He also covered three Papal conclaves. He has reported extensively on the immigration issue, following children, teen and adult immigrants from El Salvador, Honduras, and Guatemala all the way to the U.S. border. Rascon has covered everything from earthquakes to tsunamis and has executive produced and reported numerous half-hour special reports on a variety of subjects and reported from the scene of more than a dozen major hurricanes, including Katrina, Ike, and a host of other storms. He was one of the first to report from Haiti the morning after the quake.

In 2020, Rascon became an area seventy of the LDS Church, which like most other positions in the church is a non-paid position that is conducted while employed in other lines of work. article on new area seventies Rascon was stake president of the church's Houston Texas Summerwood Stake from 2017 to 2020. report on changes in stake presidencies When the stake was formed in 2012 Rascon was second counselor in the stake presidency. Church News article on formation of the Summerwood Stake In the LDS Church he has also served as a bishop, bishop's counselor, mission president's counselor, stake mission president, and stake high councilor.

In October 2021, Rascon announced he would step down from his position at KTRK effective January 2022. It was reported that his son, Jacob Rascon, would be joining the station as his replacement. Jacob Rascon, who had left NBC affiliated rival station KPRC-TV prior to the announcement, became one of three hosts for the station’s early morning programming. On January 3, 2022, Art and Jacob co-anchored the 11 a.m. edition of ABC 13 Eyewitness News together, marking the end of the father’s run at the station and beginning of the son’s.

Rascon is also the founder of Rascon Media Group, whose mission is to help individuals and organizations have clear and powerful communication. Two of his five sons, Jacob and Matt (former newscaster with Cleveland NBC affiliate WKYC), respectively serve as consultant and president with Rascon Media Group.