Erica Bivens
Erica graduated in three and a half years from Michigan State University with a Bachelor’s degree in Broadcast Journalism and specialization in Women, Gender and Social Justice.
News Anchors
Paxton Boyd
Paxton Boyd joined the ABC 36 family as an evening anchor in June 2022. The move marks a bit of a homecoming for Paxton, who was born in Elizabethtown and raised in nearby Vine Grove! You can watch Paxton on weekday…
Lyssa High
Lyssa joined the ABC 36 team in 2017 as Co-Host on Midday Kentucky, but she has been a part of the extended ABC 36 family for years… as the wife of Doug High, ABC 36 Anchor! Lyssa is now the…
Doug High
Doug High has been a News Anchor at ABC 36 since 2009 and currently co-anchors ABC 36 News at Noon / “High Noon” with his wife, ABC 36 Anchor and Lifestyle Reporter, Lyssa High.
Hayley Harmon
Anchor Hayley Harmon is the co-anchor of ABC 36’s Good Morning Kentucky with Lee Cruse! Harmon has more than a decade of local news experience and has spent the majority of that time in the anchor chair doing morning television.…
Lee Cruse
Lee Cruse, a Kentucky native, has been doing broadcasting, either on television or through the radio, in the Commonwealth for nearly 30 years. He’s also been doing stand up comedy for almost as long all across America, working with stars…
Weather Team
T.G. Shuck
T.G. Shuck joined ABC 36 as Chief Meteorologist in April 2022. A Lexington native, T.G. graduated from Lafayette High School before attending Georgetown College where he earned a B.A in Communications. He was an NAIA All-American kicker for the Tigers…
Dillon Gaudet
Dillon Gaudet joins the ABC 36 storm team as the Meteorologist on our Good Morning Kentucky, Good Day Kentucky, and News at Noon shows. A native of Buckhannon, West Virginia, Dillon attended California University of Pennsylvania where he studied meteorology.…
Jordan Smith
Jordan joined the ABC 36 family in December of 2022 as a weekend meteorologist for the ABC 36 Storm Team. He studies at Mississippi State University online, earning his bachelor’s degree in broadcast meteorology. Jordan is a Kentucky native born…
Misty Rayne
Woof woof! Hi there, I’m Misty the Australian Shepherd and I’m the resident Weather Dog at ABC 36! You might know me from my popular weather forecast segment that airs during the morning news called “Misty’s Furrcast.” I was born…
Sports Team
Jeff Piecoro
Since 2002, Piecoro has been the radio color analyst for UK Football on the UK Sports Network, a role he will return to this fall. For 24 years, Piecoro was co-host of Reds Live pregame and postgame shows on Fox Sports Ohio.…
Chris Bolton
Chris Bolton is the latest edition to the ABC 36 family. Chris joined our sister station, WCBI in Columbus, MS in August 2016 after graduating from Mississippi State University. At MSU, Chris worked as the sports reporter for the university’s…
Reporters
Justin Walker
Justin Walker joined us as an MMJ in December 2021. He’s originally from Red Level, Alabama. He got his start in Montgomery, where he covered a little bit of everything, including politics and agriculture. He then moved to Dothan, Alabama…
Ana Medina
Ana Medina is originally from the southside of Chicago, she studied at Western Kentucky University majoring in Broadcasting with a minor in French. She comes to the horse capitol of the world from Vette City aka Bowling Green, Kentucky where…
Special Features
Mandy Williamson
Mandy is a working mom of three and her husband of 13 years is a project manager of a construction company . Her 16 year old daughter loves driving which is proving to be a learning experience for all, while…