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Ashley Fitzwater is as local as a news anchor can get. Texoma is home and always has been. She grew up in Wichita Falls and is a graduate of Rider H.S. and Midwestern State University.
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Chris Horgen started at KAUZ-TV when he was 22 years old. He began his News Channel 6 career in the sports department and moved to news in 2009. Back when he started in 1992, they used typewriters to write scripts.
Chantale Belefanti
Reporter
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Tanner Deleon
Reporter
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Tila Grant
Multi Media Journalist
Tila Grant is a morning anchor and entrepreneur. Tila is an Illinois native but a Georgia Peach at heart. Her family-first values brought her to Texoma and a passion for news keeps her here.
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Brian Shrull joined the News Channel 6 team as the Sports Director in June of 2018. In 2020, he moved to mornings where he helps people in Texoma wake up informed with the latest local news.
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Mason Brighton
Multimedia Journalist
Mason Brighton joined the News Channel 6 team as a multi-media journalist in July 2019. He grew up in Grand Prairie, Texas, right in the middle of the DFW Metroplex and went to the University of Texas at Arlington.
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Ebonee Coleman
Multimedia Journalist
Ebonee Coleman lived in Houston all her life until finally leaving home to attend the Stephen F. Austin University. There she received a Bachelor’s Degree in Mass Communications-Radio/TV.
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Michael Grace
Multimedia Journalist
Michael Grace joined the News Channel 6 team as a multi-media journalist in September of 2020. He grew up outside of Chicago in LaGrange, IL and is a die-hard White Sox fan.
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Samantha Forester was born and raised in Wichita Falls. She graduated from Hirschi High School in 2009--go Huskies! She received her Bachelor’s of Fine Arts in Broadcast Journalism from Midwestern State University in December 2014.
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Alyssa Osterdock
Multimedia Journalist
Alyssa Osterdock joined KAUZ NewsChannel 6 in October 2019 as a multi-media journalist. In 2020 she was named Sports Director before anchoring mornings starting in 2021.
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Ken Johnson
Chief Meteorologist
Chief Meteorologist Ken Johnson is originally from Mississippi but has been calling Texoma home since June of 2008. That’s when he joined the NewsChannel 6 team.
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Garrett James
First Alert Meteorologist
Meteorologist Garrett joined the First Alert Weather Team in January of 2019 and is thrilled to be able to provide forecasts in his hometown.
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Emily Bjorklund
Sports Director
Emily Bjorklund joined the News Channel 6 team as a multi-media journalist in May 2019 and was named Sports Director in 2021.
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Jacqueline Policastro
Washington Bureau Chief
Jacqueline Policastro created the Gray Television Washington News Bureau in 2014. She’s covered Congress and the White House for more than a decade.
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Ted Fioraliso
Senior Reporter/Executive Producer
Ted Fioraliso returned to Washington, D.C. in April 2016 as a senior reporter/executive producer at the Gray Television Washington News Bureau.
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Peter Zampa
Multimedia Journalist
Peter Zampa joined the Gray Television Washington News Bureau in June 2015 as a multimedia journalist.
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Alana Austin
Multimedia Journalist
Alana Austin joined the Gray Television Washington News Bureau team in August 2017 after spending three years covering national and state politics in Richmond, Virginia at Gray TV's WVIR-TV.
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Kyle Midura
Multimedia Journalist
Kyle Midura joined the Gray Television Washington News Bureau in September 2017 from Gray TV's WCAX-TV.
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Timothy Knapp
Supervisor of Videography
Timothy Knapp joined the Gray Television Washington News Bureau in September 2018 as Studio Manager and Photojournalist. He now serves as Supervisor of Videography.
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Karen Daborowski
Producer
Karen Daborowski joined the Gray Television Washington News Bureau in January 2019 as a producer.
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Natalie Grim
Multimedia Journalist
Natalie Grim joined the Gray Television Washington News Bureau as a multimedia journalist in June 2019.
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Kristin Kasper
Multimedia Journalist
Kristin Kasper joined the Gray Television Washington News Bureau in July of 2019 as a multimedia journalist.
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David Ade
Multimedia Journalist
David Ade returned to the Gray Television Washington News Bureau in July 2021 as a multimedia journalist. He previously worked at the Bureau from 2017-2019.
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Nicole Neuman
Multimedia Journalist
Nicole Neuman joined the Gray Television Washington News Bureau in June 2021 as a multimedia journalist.
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Tyler S. Smith
Photojournalist/Editor
Tyler Smith joined the Gray Television Washington News Bureau in July 2019 as a photojournalist/editor.