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04/02/2006

Jean Enersen
Jean Enersen is consistently named the most popular and respected news anchor in the Northwest and has won an Emmy for her news anchoring. She co-anchors KING 5 News weeknight broadcasts at 5 p.m and 6:30 p.m. with Dennis Bounds.

Recent stories by Allen Schauffler

02/26/2006

Rich Marriott
Rich Marriott is the meteorologist for KING 5 Morning News, KING 5 Morning News on KONG, and KING 5 News at Noon. He joined KING 5 in 1987 as a meteorologist for KING 5 Weekend News and moved to his current position in 1990.

04/02/2006

Lori Matsukawa
Lori Matsukawa currently co-anchors KING 5 News weeknights at 10 on KONG TV 6/16 and KING 5 News at 11 on KING 5.

Jeff Renner
Jeff Renner is the chief meteorologist for the weeknight KING 5 News at 5, 6:30, 10 and 11 p.m. He also provides weather forecasts for the Seattle Times. He has been rated Seattle's most accurate weather forecaster by a University of Washington study, and has earned the American Meteorological Society's Seal of Approval.

Paul Silvi
Paul Silvi is the sports anchor for KING 5 News at 5, 6:30, 10 and 11 p.m. He is also the host of Northwest Sports Tonight on NorthWest Cable News and The High School Sports Blitz. Silvi has earned AP awards for Best Sportscast.

Susannah Frame
Susannah Frame is a KING 5 investigative reporter. Before joining the investigative unit, Frame anchored the KING 5 Weekend Morning News, KING 5 News at Noon, and was a general assignment reporter.

Don Porter
Don is a seasoned and well-respected journalist in the Northwest and no stranger to KING 5. Don's first stint at KING 5 was from 1986 to 1991, when he anchored the 11:00pm news. Previously, he was a correspondent for NBC News from 1981 to 1985 where he was first based in Washington D.C. and then in London.

Mimi Jung
Mimi Jung co-anchors the top-rated weekend evening editions of KING 5 News with Allen Schauffler. She joined KING 5 News in April 2000 as a general assignment reporter, coming from KTNV-TV in Las Vegas, Nev., where she was a morning anchor and general assignment reporter.

02/26/2006

Carolyn Douglas
Carolyn Douglas anchors KING 5 News at Noon during the week. She’s an Emmy-award winning anchor who joined KING 5 from WFTS-TV in Tampa, Florida, where she was a general and special assignment reporter and a fill-in anchor.

04/02/2006

Meeghan Black
Meeghan Black joined KING 5 News in April 2000. After six years as a weekend weather anchor, she became a weekday traffic anchor for the KING 5 Morning News First Alert Traffic team in 2006.

Linda Brill
Linda Brill is KING 5's most vetran reporter with over twenty years of experience in the region. Brill has covered the biggest news stories, from the eruption of Mount St. Helens to the Eastern Washington forest fires and from the Green River murders to the World Trade Organization riots.

Linda Byron
Linda Byron joined KING 5 News in February 1987 as a general assignment reporter. She is on the KING 5 investigative team and focuses on criminal justice in her reporting. She came to Seattle from KUTV (NBC) in Salt Lake City, UT. Her earlier experience includes anchor/reporter positions at stations in Boise, Kansas City, and Columbia, MO.

Recent stories by Linda Byron

Gary Chittim
Gary Chittim joined KING 5 in December 2000. He moved up Interstate 5 from KING's Portland affiliate KGW where he was the Environmental Reporter. He also worked in the Portland Bureau for NorthWest Cable News, and before that anchored the news for several years in Medford, Oregon.

10/07/2006

Meg Coyle
Meg Coyle anchors KING 5 Weekend Morning News. She joined KING 5 News as a general assignment reporter in October 2000.

09/21/2007

Chris Warren
Chris Warren is the meteorologist for the weekend evening editions of KING 5 News at 5:00, 6:30, 10:00 and 11:00. He can also be seen on NorthWest Cable News where he began on air during the summer of 2003.

04/02/2006

Glenn Farley
Glenn Farley joined KING 5 in 1986. Farley spends much of his time covering Boeing and the aerospace industry as KING’s aviation specialist.

Deborah Feldman
Deborah Feldman joined KING 5 News in April 1999 as a general assignment reporter. Before joining KING 5, Deborah was a weekend anchor and general assignment reporter for KREM-TV (CBS) in Spokane, WA, from 1996 to April 1999.

Jim Forman
Jim Forman has been a reporter for KING 5 since 1990. For a decade Western Washington has turned to Jim Forman for on the scene coverage when news is breaking. From the front lines of wildfires to inside the police lines of the WTO riots, Forman has covered every major story of the 1990s, and now of the new millennium.

Elisa Hahn
Elisa Hahn has been a general assignment reporter for KING 5 News since she moved to Seattle in 1996. Prior to joining KING 5, she was a general assignment reporter at KTNV-TV in Las Vegas, and at KMPH-TV in Fresno, California.

Chris Ingalls
Chris Ingalls joined the KING 5 News team in December of 1994. The former radio news reporter began his career in Dayton, Ohio, after graduating form Wright State University.

Robert Mak
Robert Mak is host of "KING 5 News Up Front," and a news reporter at KING 5 Television, Seattle's NBC affiliate. Since joining KING-TV in 1992, Mak has established a reputation for award-winning political coverage, tackling difficult and challenging issues facing the Northwest.

10/30/2006

Jane McCarthy
Jane McCarthy joined KING 5 Television in April 2004 as the north bureau chief. McCarthy came to Seattle from KXTV in Sacramento, CA, where she was a reporter and fill in anchor from 1999 to 2004.

04/02/2006

Roberta Romero
Roberta Romero joined KING 5 News in March 1991 as a general assignment reporter. She came to Seattle from KOB-TV in Albuquerque, NM. Her earlier experience includes general assignment reporter positions at KOBF-TV in Albuquerque, NM., KTSM-TV in El Paso, TX., and KRWG-TV in Las Cruces, NM.

09/24/2006

Eric Wilkinson
Eric Wilkinson joined KING 5 News as a general assignment reporter in April 1998. Prior to reporting for KING 5, Wilkinson was a reporter/anchor for WPTV in West Palm Beach, Florida from 1994 to 1998.

05/24/2006

Bernard Choi
Bernard Choi joined KING 5 Television in 2004 as a reporter. He came to Seattle from Wichita, Kansas where he worked as an education reporter/city government report/fill-in-anchor for KWCH-TV between 2001-2004.

Ray Lane
Ray Lane joined KING 5 Television in 2004 as a reporter. He previously worked as a freelance reporter for KING-TV from 2002 to 2004.

10/07/2006

Tim Robinson
Tim Robinson joined KING 5 Television in August 2004 as a feature reporter. Prior to joining KING 5, Robinson came to Seattle from Sacramento, CA, where he was the co-host of a statewide show called "California Heartland" seen on PBS. Before that, he was an anchor and reporter at KTXL Fox 40 in Sacramento.

10/31/2006

Lisa Gangel
Lisa Gangel is the weekend sports anchor for KING 5. Gangel joined KING 5 in October 2005 as a sports reporter.

12/03/2007

Chris Egan
Chris Egan joined the KING 5 sports department as a reporter and anchor in June of 2007.

01/06/2006

Jesse Jones
Jesse Jones joined KING 5 in November 2005 as a reporter and member of the KING 5 Investigators team. Jesse began his career working for KSTW-TV in Seattle as a general assignment reporter and special projects producer in 1989.

05/31/2006

Chris Daniels
Chris Daniels began reporting for KING 5 News in 2003. He came to Seattle in 2000 as a reporter for KCPQ-TV. Prior to that, he was a reporter and fill-in anchor for WZZM-TV in Grand Rapids, MI, and a morning/noon anchor for KIDK-TV in Idaho Falls, ID.

12/28/2006

Rob Piercy
Rob Piercy joined KING 5 News as the North Bureau Chief in October 2006. It's a homecoming for Rob, who was born and raised in the Skagit Valley. He graduated from Sedro-Woolley High School, and earned a journalism degree from the University of Washington.

06/12/2007

Tonya Mosley
Tonya Mosley joined KING 5 News in September of 2005. She moved to the Northwest from Louisville, Ky., where she worked as a reporter/fill-in anchor for the FOX affiliate.

12/07/2007

Tricia Manning-Smith
Tricia Manning-Smith joined KING 5 as a reporter in 2002. Her professional career is firmly grounded in the Northwest.

12/10/2007

Kim Holcomb
Kim Holcomb joined KING 5 News as a reporter in November 2006. She came to Seattle from KPNX-TV, the NBC affiliate in Phoenix, Arizona.