Blake Holland

Blake Holland is a news anchor and reporter for KLTV 7 in Tyler, Texas. He currently anchors East Texas' most-watched newscasts at 5 and 6 p.m.

Blake grew up in Panola County and graduated from Carthage High School. His passion for news goes back to when he would make his own newscasts in his bedroom radio/TV studio. At age 14, he went to work part-time for KGAS Radio in Carthage. Blake had already been doing on-air work at the station since he was in elementary school. In high school, Blake started anchoring the radio station's 5 p.m. newscast and managed the news department.

After high school, Blake attended the University of North Texas in Denton. While at UNT he served as Assistant News Director at the award-winning campus television station. While in college, he also worked as an anchor/reporter at NewsRadio 1080 KRLD and the Texas State Network in Dallas.

Blake has been voted "Best Reporter" and "Best Radio Personality" in Panola County by the readers of The Panola Watchman newspaper. In 2019, Blake was named "Best Anchor" by the Texas Associated Press Broadcasters for his work at KLTV. In 2022, Blake was inducted into the Carthage Distinguished Alumni Hall of Fame. He and his colleagues are also nominated for a 2024 Lone Star EMMY Award for their special coverage of the total solar eclipse.

Since 2018, Blake has provided exclusive coverage of four Brookshire's Heroes Flights to Washington D.C. These flights provide East Texas veterans with an opportunity to see memorials and monuments in our nation's capital. Blake's reporting also took him to Central Texas in the summer of 2025, where he covered deadly flooding in the Kerrville area.

In the summer of 2021, Blake married former KLTV/KTRE news anchor Erika Bazaldua. He and Erika became the proud parents of a little girl in 2023.