Meet The Team
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Michael Alachnowicz
Reporter
Michael is excited to call Lynchburg - just up the road from his hometown of Roanoke - home!
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Ashley Anne
Anchor/Reporter
Lynchburg/Bedford Bureau Reporter Ashley Anne joined the WDBJ7 news team in August 2017.
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Josh Birch
Anchor
I love to highlight people and businesses impacting their community in a positive way.
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Jen Cardone
Reporter
Jen comes to Blacksburg after spending more than two years reporting at our affiliate in South Bend, Indiana. She is excited to call the New River Valley her home.
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Joe Dashiell
Senior Reporter
Joe Dashiell is a native of Norfolk and a 1980 graduate of Washington and Lee University, where he majored in journalism.
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Kendall Davis
Southside Bureau Reporter
Kendall Davis is the Southside Bureau reporter at Your Hometown Station, WDBJ7.
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Pete DeLuca
Anchor/Reporter
Pete co-anchors WDBJ7's weekend morning shows and reports during the week.
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Sarah Irby
Digital Producer
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Jean Jadhon
Anchor
Jean Jadhon is Your Hometown Station's anchor for the Emmy award-winning WDBJ7 at 5pm and WDBJ7 at 6pm. She also covers health and medical news.
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Kimberly McBroom
WDBJ7 Morning and Noon Anchor
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Neesey Payne
Anchor
If there is one thing we can say about Neesey Payne it's that she's one-of-a-kind. She's the bright, bubbly personality on our WDBJ7 Mornin' show.
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Katey Roshetko
Mornin' Reporter
Even though Katey grew up travelling the world as part of a military family, she's called Southwest Virginia home since 2010.
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Pat Thomas
Digital News Supervisor
I have been in broadcasting one way or another since 1983, when I was 19. Born and raised in Nevada and loving my new home of Virginia!
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Meteorologist Ian Cassette
Meteorologist
Raised in Florida, the 2004 and 2005 hurricane seasons fueled Ian’s interest in weather. From then on, Ian’s interest in weather only grew. He graduated from Florida State University in 2015 with a B.S. in Meteorology. After an internship at his favorite TV station in Tampa, WFLA, he fully realized he wanted to be a broadcast meteorologist.
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Meteorologist Leo Hirsbrunner
Meteorologist
AMS certified broadcast meteorologist with over 20 years of forecasting experience.
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Meteorologist Christian Johansen
Meteorologist
Born and raised along the Gulf Coast, Christian Johansen grew to love weather, especially during hurricane season. Christian started his on-air career in 2012 in St. Joseph, Missouri before coming to WDBJ7.
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Chief Meteorologist Brent Watts
Chief Meteorologist
Brent Watts was in 4th grade when the Flood of 85 nearly put his hometown of Buchanan underwater. That event sparked his interest in severe weather and a 20+ year career at Your Hometown Station.
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Travis Wells
Sports Director
Travis Wells is a Martinsville native who played basketball at Radford University. After graduating in May of 1995, he worked at WDBJ7 as a news photographer for two years before working at television stations in Charlottesville and Bristol.
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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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Jillian Angeline
Multimedia Journalist
Jillian Angeline joined the Gray Television Washington News Bureau in January 2019 as a multimedia journalist.
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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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Tyler Smith
Photojournalist/Editor
Tyler Smith joined the Gray Television Washington News Bureau in July 2019 as a photojournalist/editor.