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UTEP KTEP Staff, Wednesday, July 14, 2021, in El Paso, TX. Photo by Ivan Pierre Aguirre / UTEP Communications

Sam Cassiano

Morning News Anchor/Producer, Host of Friday Night Blues

Sam Cassiano is a native Californian who spent his formative years in the Bay Area. An army brat, his family toured Germany and Japan before settling in El Paso in 1973. Initially a Communications Major at UTEP, a radio internship at KPAS-FM 94, the PASS launched his broadcasting career. He can be heard as the morning news anchor on KTEP during NPR's Morning Edition, and Friday evenings at 10 pm as the host of Friday Night Blues.

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