Elections

Republican candidates in the highly-anticipated Texas gubernatorial race squared off in The Texas Debates: Race for Governor, held on Thursday, January 14 at 7:00 p.m. The live debate broadcast to millions on television, radio and online throughout the state included two-term Texas Governor Rick Perry, three-term U.S. Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison and former Wharton County Republican Party chair Debra Medina.

KERA-FM also broadcast analysis of the debate in the half-hour special The Texas Debates and the Republican Primary hosted by Shelley Kofler. Watch the video here.

The debate will repeat on KERA-TV on Sunday, January 17 at 10:30 a.m., followed by a roundtable discussion of the issues and debate analysis on Think with Krys Boyd at 11:30 a.m., and again on Monday, January 18, at 10:00 p.m. Video of the debate is also archived for on-demand viewing at TexasDebates.org.

The debate will be broadcast in Spanish on Texas Univision stations on Saturday, January 16 at 10 a.m. More information on rebroadcasts can be found on the Where to Watch page.

The Texas Debates was produced by KERA in partnership with CBS 11 (KTVT-TV) and TXA 21 (KTXA-TV), Star-Telegram, KUVN Univision 23, The Texas Association of Broadcasters (TAB), Texas State Networks and the Freedom of Information Foundation of Texas.

The debate was moderated by KERA News Director Shelley Kofler. CBS 11 News Anchor Doug Dunbar hosted questions from the live audience. Questions were posed by a panel of journalists including:

• Shelley Kofler, KERA-FM and KERA-TV
• María Renée Barillas, KUVN Univisión 23
• Dave Montgomery, Star-Telegram

The Texas Debates originated from the Murchison Performing Arts Center on the campus of the University of North Texas in Denton. The program was distributed at no charge to all commercial and public radio and television stations statewide as a public service, courtesy of the Texas Association of Broadcasters (TAB). Real-time translation and closed captioning were also provided by TAB, a service it has contributed for broadcast debates of statewide candidates since 1998.

The Texas Debates are made possible, in part, by Lockheed Martin, AARP and other generous donors from our community.