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Derick Garcia, evening anchor at the Rio Grande Valley’s Nexstar Media Group-owned CBS and NBC affiliates, collectively known as “ValleyCentral,” will be signing off for the last time at the end of the CBS4 10 p.m. newscast on Friday, July 17, according to a post Garcia made on Facebook on Tuesday.
“Thank you for 10 years of trust and truth. You have made a Brownsville kid’s dream come true,” the post reads.
Over the last decade, Garcia has become the face of ValleyCentral. He started out as a producer at the station — then known as KGBT ACTION 4 News — in 2012 after graduating from Texas State University. Prior to college, Garcia served a four-year stint in the U.S. Navy where he worked “on aircraft carrier flight decks,” he said in 2022. Soon after arriving at KGBT, Garcia moved from writing news stories behind the scenes to working as a reporter in the field, then becoming an anchor.
“More than a quarter of my life has been in this newsroom, starting from writing the stories for the anchors, to becoming one, and now enjoying life as a father of two incredible children with the love of my life,” Garcia said on Facebook.
In addition to serving as co-anchor of CBS4 News’ 5, 6 and 10 p.m. newscasts with fellow Brownsville native, Daisy Martinez, Garcia also serves as the lead investigative reporter on ValleyCentral’s investigative news brand, 4 INVESTIGATES. He has also led one of the most popular recurring segments at ValleyCentral called, Food 4 Thought.
As part of the segment, Garcia and a photojournalist form a team known as the “Food Patrol” that pays visits to eateries across the Valley. They arrive armed with the results of a restaurant’s latest health department inspection. Establishments that score high marks for cleanliness and adherence to food safety rules earn a “Top Performer” award and a sticker they can proudly display to customers. On air, Garcia cheerily lauds top performers with the segment’s tagline, “¡Qué Rico!”
However, it’s restaurants that have failed health inspections that have viewers tuning in week after week. While visiting such restaurants, Garcia has often been met with restaurant owners and workers who are angry and defensive, or who try to shun the camera as videographers capture footage of everything from dirty food preparation surfaces, to cockroaches scurrying past, to evidence of rodent infestations. Garcia labels low performing restaurants with the segment’s “Que Asco,” or “disgusting” tagline.
It’s Garcia’s investigative work that has driven him during his tenure at ValleyCentral — and that has earned him numerous accolades. Earlier this year, Garcia was honored with the Best Television Reporter award by the Texas Broadcast News Awards. Garcia has won two other Texas Association of Broadcasters awards, and has been previously nominated for Texas EMMY Awards. In 2024, he and fellow investigative reporter, Dave Hendricks — who does not appear on-air — won a coveted Regional Edward R. Murrow Award for a longform piece entitled “A Questionable Call” as part of their wider reporting on public corruption in the tiny border town of Progreso.
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