Jerry Clayton
Weekend News Anchor / Producerjerry@tpr.org
Twitter: @jerryclayton
In addition to hosting weekend newscasts on TPR, Jerry writes news and feature stories. His stories are regularly featured on the national NPR news broadcasts, as well as the statewide news program The Texas Standard.
Before coming to Texas Public Radio in 2020, Jerry was an on-demand air charter pilot. His love for flying is life-long. He's a certified flight instructor and has flown various aircraft from single engine Cessnas to the King Air B200 twin turboprop.
He has over 40 years experience in broadcasting and was well known among San Antonio radio listeners as "Fred Zeppelin" as both an airborne traffic reporter and afternoon and morning host on the classic rock station KZEP for 11 years.
Jerry spent his younger days playing drums with the country band "Mason Dixon" and has continued to play in his spare time in several local San Antonio funk, blues, rock and country bands.
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On Saturday the Mehr Foundation of San Antonio hosted the Persian Autumn Festival. -
With a simple prompt, generative-AI programs like Suno can create any kind of music one can imagine. -
More than 129,000 Bexar County residents had voted by 7 p.m. Tuesday, following record early turnout. Voters across the San Antonio area weighed in on key races as Bexar County was selected for federal election monitoring. -
On Oct. 13, a Falcon 9 rocket roared into space, bound for the International Space Station. Among the cargo was PROVES-Maia, a satellite designed and built by students at Texas State University. -
Southwest Research Institute in San Antonio is partnering with scientists at Adelaide University in Australia to create a quantum RF sensor. -
The researchers say the data should make officials rethink preconceived ideas about flooding conditions to improve flood forecasting, preparedness and response. -
A newly funded UT San Antonio research project aims to teach students how to identify and fix security vulnerabilities in AI-generated code, with a focus on making increasingly autonomous AI agents safer. -
The event recognized the women for their work in voter education and advocacy. -
On board the BepiColombo spacecraft is Strofio, a neutral mass spectrometer specifically designed to sample the sparse exosphere around Mercury. The spacecraft is a joint mission of the European and Japanese space agencies and was launched in 2018. -
Tierra Walker falleció tras sufrir múltiples problemas de salud, entre ellos convulsiones, coágulos de sangre e hipertensión arterial peligrosamente alta durante los primeros cuatro meses de su embarazo.
