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    Art Taft, Morning Anchor

    Art Taft, Morning Anchor

    Posted 4:43 PM 9/9/2010

    Art Taft grew up in the shadow of the Sweetgrass Hills in North Toole County.Art has experienced living in the Montana communities of Sunburst, Shelby, Missoula, Miles City, Bozeman, Kalispell and now resides in Great Falls with his bride and two of the most spoiled dogs in (More)
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    Tim McGonigal, News Director

    Tim McGonigal, News Director

    Posted 5:06 PM 1/20/2010

    Tim McGonigal, a Helena native, was named News Director for KRTV and KXLH December 2007. 

    Tim has also served as a News Director at television stations in Missouri and Minnesota.

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    Ashley Korslien, Weekend Anchor/Reporter

    Ashley Korslien, Weekend Anchor/Reporter

    Posted 5:40 PM 1/27/2010

    Ashley is so excited to be working back in the town she grew up in. She is a proud Great Falls High and University of Montana grad, and is happy to continue her news career in the beautiful Treasure State!In 2009, Ashley interned in California at a local television station and at the (More)
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    David Sherman, Online Producer

    David Sherman, Online Producer

    Posted 4:14 PM 9/8/2008

    David Sherman, a retired US Air Force officer, joined Montana's News Station in August 2008.  As the Online News Producer, he takes the stories that the news staff brings in from the field and "converts" them into web-sized chunks, always trying to include helpful links and online extras for (More)
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    Fred Pfeiffer, Chief Forecaster

    Fred Pfeiffer, Chief Forecaster

    Posted 9:04 AM 4/2/2004

    Fred has been the Chief Weather Forecaster at KRTV for over 14 years, overseeing the weather operations, and appearing Monday through Friday during the 5:30 and 10 pm newscasts.

    Aside from watching and preparing weather for broadcast, his favorite part of the job is the friendly (More)
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    Marnee Banks, Helena Bureau Chief

    Marnee Banks, Helena Bureau Chief

    Posted 3:52 PM 2/2/2010

    Marnee is a proud Montana girl and proud to be the Helena correspondent for Montana's News Station!

    She grew up in Helena and graduated from Helena High School in 2003. After that, she enrolled at the University of Montana Helena as an accounting major. She quickly discovered the (More)
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    Richie Melby, Sports Director

    Richie Melby, Sports Director

    Posted 6:39 PM 1/23/2009

    Richie joined Montana's News Station in April of 2006 as a newscast assistant at KTVQ in Billings. He then was promoted to weekend photographer, and very quickly worked his way up to become the Sports Director at KRTV in Great Falls.

    Richie was born in the great state of Washington and (More)
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    Alex Grubb, Reporter

    Alex Grubb, Reporter

    Posted 6:55 PM 1/20/2010

    Alex Grubb comes to us from our sister station KVOA in Tucson, Arizona, where he spent the last two and a half years video editing.
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    Kay Rossi, Reporter

    Kay Rossi, Reporter

    Posted 2:38 PM 1/9/2008

    Kay joined Montana's News Station as a State Capitol correspondent in September of 2007, covering Helena news for KXLH, and the Montana Legislature for Montana's News Station. In September 2009 she made the move to Great Falls as a general assignment reporter for KRTV.

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    Greg Smith, Sports Reporter

    Greg Smith, Sports Reporter

    Posted 2:41 PM 3/19/2008

    Greg Smith joined KRTV as the weekend sports anchor/reporter.  He comes directly from college at the University of Northern Colorado where he earned his B.A. in journalism and mass communication in December of 2007.Greg grew up in Texas where he played all sports as a child, then (More)
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    Tyler Mickelson, Morning Anchor and Reporter

    Tyler Mickelson, Morning Anchor and Reporter

    Posted 6:29 PM 1/20/2010

    Tyler Mickelson comes to KRTV from Southwest Minnesota State University where he graduated with a Speech Communication degree, with an emphasis in Radio and TV. He also played football for five years at SMSU.

    Tyler interned at Wisconsin Eye Public Affairs Network where he produced and (More)
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    Shannon Newth, Morning Anchor & Reporter

    Shannon Newth, Morning Anchor & Reporter

    Posted 2:46 PM 10/31/2008

    Shannon is no stranger to KRTV.  She first started working with Montana's News Station as a news intern during the summer of 2005.  Two years later Shannon returned, this time with the wonderful opportunity of anchoring the weekend weather during the summer of 2007.  As of October (More)
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    Katie Stukey, News Anchor

    Katie Stukey, News Anchor

    Posted 8:07 AM 1/22/2008

    Katie made her television news debut in Great Falls quite a while ago when a reporter came to her kindergarten class at Lewis & Clark Elementary and she got to sign-off with "Reporting in Great Falls, I'm Katie Stukey."  Well, it must have been destiny because 17 years later, Katie is (More)
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    Heath Heggem, News Anchor & Assistant News Director

    Heath Heggem, News Anchor & Assistant News Director

    Posted 9:08 AM 4/2/2004

    Heath takes great pride in being the 5:30 and 10 o'clock news anchor and Assistant News Director at KRTV/KXLH.  But his most rewarding duties are as father and husband.  Heath and his wife have three beautiful children (2 boys, 1 girl).  The only pet in their house is a cat, but he (More)
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