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 is an Award-winning journalist who co-anchors WTVQ’s evening newscasts at 5, 5:30, 6:00 and 11 p.m. He also reads your emails and phone messages every day to put together the popular weekly feature Viewer’s Voice - which airs every Friday at 5:30 p.m.
Don has been with the WTVQ team since 2003. Before coming to Lexington, Don worked in Texas, Nevada, Idaho, Nebraska, and most recently Washington, D.C., where he was a reporter and co-anchor of an early morning newscast.
Don has won 2 Regional Emmy Awards for investigative and feature reporting and is an Emmy nominated Anchor. He was also part of the team that won a National and Regional Edward R. Murrow award for WTVQ’s coverage of the crash of flight 5191.
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 joined the Action News 36 Team in August 2006. Before coming to the Bluegrass, his career has taken him to television stations in Wisconsin, Texas, Georgia, California and most recently Birmingham, Alabama.
Born in Boston and raised in Milwaukee and Washington D.C., Chris is a graduate of Pepperdine University in Malibu, California. He first became interested in the TV industry through watching his mom, who has been a producer for nearly 30 years.
With family in the Lexington area Chris now gets to see them more. In his free time he also enjoys reading, playing video games, travelling and watching sports.
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 attended the University of Oklahoma as a National Merit Scholarship and graduated with B.A. in Journalism and minor in History.
She comes to the Bluegrass State after working as an anchor and reporter at the ABC affiliates in Lawton, Oklahoma and Little Rock, Arkansas.
She is the winner of an Oklahoma Associated Press Broadcasters Award for her reporting and has had news articles published in national magazines such as Ladies Home Journal and Essence.
She enjoys the natural beauty of Kentucky and loves attending the Derby and hanging out at Keeneland.
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 joined the Action News 36 team in the summer of 1999 as a General Assignment Reporter. She currently hits the air bright and early as a News Anchor for Action News 36 Good Morning Kentucky and Action News 36 at Noon. She also contributes a variety of reports to Action News 36's daily news coverage.
Born and raised in Richmond, Kentucky, Kristi is glad to be working so close to her hometown. Covering stories in and around Lexington allows her to focus on the communities and people she's known and loved her entire life.
Kristi’s work in television and radio has earned her more than a dozen awards. In 2004, Kristi earned a Midwestern Regional Emmy for Public Service Reporting for her story on Literacy in Central Kentucky. In 2003, her in-depth report on Internet predators earned her a Community Service Award from the U.S. Attorney’s office.
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 joined Action News 36 in June of 2001 as a General Assignment Reporter. A native of Peoria, Illinois, he graduated cum laude with a B.A. in Mass Communications from Western Illinois University. He currently co-anchors central Kentucky’s fastest growing morning news program, Good Morning Kentucky and Action News 36 at Noon.
Tom has more than 25-years experience in broadcast journalism. He is the only broadcast journalist in Lexington television history to be honored with a national Edward R. Murrow Award. Tom was recognized for hard news reporting on a story that gave a rare glimpse inside the secretive world of the Federal Witness Protection Program. He has won an Emmy Award for anchoring and another for investigative reporting, exposing the deceit and potential danger of online diploma mills.
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 joined Action News 36 as a Reporter in October 2007. She is thrilled to be working in such a beautiful city with so much charm.
Cheryl comes to Lexington from Hopkinsville, Kentucky where she worked as a Reporter and Anchor for WKAG-TV since March 2006. There she covered everything from massive tornado destruction, to the deployment and return of more than 20,000 troops with the 101st Airborne Division of the Army.
Growing up in northwest Ohio, she earned her degree in Communications from Bowling Green State University. While in college she interned at WTVG in Toledo and reported for her university’s cable station, BG-24 News. Though she will always be partial to the Bowling Green Falcons, she is quickly becoming a Wildcat fan!
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 brings more than 14 years of television news experience to his job as general assignment reporter for
WTVQ.
Throughout his career Tony has honed his skills both behind the scenes and in front of the camera, most recently as a reporter for KFVS-12 in Cape Girardeau, Missouri.
Tony grew up in Barbourville, Ky., but has lived in Central Kentucky long enough to call Lexington home. After a
two-year absence, he is glad to be back in the Bluegrass near his family and friends.
In his time off, Tony enjoys reading, listening to music, gardening and rough-housing with his cocker-spaniel,
Baxter.
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 is an award winning reporter who joined Action News 36 in the Spring of 1998 as the weekend anchor and general assignment reporter.
She helped Action News launch the stations first noon show back in September 2001 and covered education issues across central Kentucky for several years.
Today she dedicates her time to covering crime and the courts as well as other general news of the day.
Before making Kentucky home, Michelle lived in Fort Smith, Arkansas where she was the morning anchor and a general assignment reporter.
She started her career in Ardmore, Oklahoma where she was a "one man band". Michelle traveled all across Southern Oklahoma and North Texas carrying her own camera gear and shooting her own stories. |
 joined Action News 36 as a reporter in June 2007, and is happy to be back in the Bluegrass and call Lexington her home once again!
Megan was born and raised in Lexington, but moved to Michigan in 1995. That is where she received her degree in Communication from Michigan State University. While attending M.S.U. Megan reported, anchored and produced news for the ABC affiliate in Lansing, Michigan, covering everything from General Motors’ plant closures and layoffs, to the political unrest at the State Capitol left by massive budget deficits.
As a reporter, Megan’s favorite part of the job is getting out the stories that the community wants heard. If you have a story idea or question for Megan, please feel free to email her at
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 has been a reporter for Action News 36 since May of 1987. Greg is the station's veteran political reporter.
Sports fans will also recognize Greg as the radio voice of the EKU Colonels. He has been doing the play-by-play of EKU football and basketball games since 1979, calling two 1-AA National Championships and the Colonel's appearance in the 2005 and 2007 NCAA Basketball Tournaments. Greg also produces and hosts the weekly coach's shows which air throughout the football and basketball seasons on Action News 36.
Greg is a 1978 Summa Cum Laude graduate of Western Kentucky University, where he double majored in speech and mass communications. He began his professional broadcasting career as a sophomore in college, working full time in radio. |
is proud to be a member of the award winning Action News 36 team.
She has worked in the news business as a reporter for the past seven years joined Action News 36 in December, 2007.
A 2006 Emmy Nominee in the Best General News Category, Kellie has won the Communicator Award of Excellence on three occasions.
She is an honor graduate of Morehead State University and a graduate of the Poynter Institute for Journalism in St. Petersburg, Florida, one of the nation's top establishments for training journalists.
Her spare time is spent singing, shopping, volunteer work, working out and playing with her Dachshund, Tinkerbell.
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 Jon James leads WTVQ’s Storm Team 36 as Chief Meteorologist, alongside long-time Lexington weathercaster Brad James and Meteorologist Mary Wasson. Jon has worked all over the eastern United States as a meteorologist, but is now proud to call Lexington home.
Jon has an Advanced Degree from Mississippi State University, one of our nation’s most prestigious Meteorological educational programs, which has helped him become Lexington’s only “Certified Most Accurate” forecaster. Jon’s forecast is so accurate, it even comes with a 3-degree guarantee! When he’s right, which he is most of the time, WTVQ donates cash to a charity each month. Jon’s education also plays into his use of the latest technology, such as WTVQ’s Live 3-D Vipir radar, one of the most important tools he uses to keep you ahead of storms and severe weather. |
 joined Storm Team 36 in June 2007 from KEVN in Rapid City, South Dakota.
Born and raised in Winchester, KY, Mary is excited to make the move from the beautiful Black Hills of South Dakota back to the gorgeous Bluegrass state.
Mary is a graduate of George Rogers Clark High School and Morehead State University. She graduated with a BA in Communications and an emphasis in Electronic Media.
Mary also went to graduate school to further her education in meteorology. She graduated from Mississippi State University with her MS in Geosciences’, emphasis Broadcast Meteorology. |
 joined the Action News 36 team as a general assignment reporter in November of 2003.
In June 2005 Kent moved to the Weeked Sports Anchor / Sports Reporter position. Kent is no stranger to sports and is excited to cover sports in Kentucky.
Working at Action News 36 is a homecoming for Kent. He grew up in Northern Kentucky, and being an hour away from where he grew up is a dream come true. Kent spent two years working as an anchor and reporter in Fort Smith, Arkansas before coming to Action News 36. The Arkansas job gave Kent the opportunity to learn the ropes in the news business.
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 joined the Action News 36 team in January of 2008 as WTVQ’s Weekend Sports Anchor/Sports Reporter.
Dan started out in the broadcast business at age 16 as a disc jockey at an AM country radio station in Williamsburg, Kentucky.
He made his television debut in 2000 as host of a weekly, half-hour high school sports program in Lexington, which he produced and hosted until 2003. He left Lexington for a sports anchor position at WRBL in Columbus, Georgia, where he served as the station’s Sports Director until 2006.
Dan and his wife Jennifer consider Kentucky home and returned to the Bluegrass in 2006, at which time he became the American Saddlebred Horse Association’s Communications Manager and served in that capacity for a little over a year until joining the team at Action News 36.Dan graduated from Williamsburg High School, where he played football. He earned his Bachelor of Arts degree in Journalism from the University of Kentucky in 1999. |
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