Meet The Team
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Dan Thomas
Anchor
Dan couldn’t be more happy to come back to Texoma to anchor the evening newscasts at KXII.
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Jen Phillips
Anchor
Jen Phillips is KXII's evening news anchor. She previously worked as the station's Weekend Anchor/Reporter and Paris Reporter /Anchor.
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Christy Waite
Anchor
Christy Waite joined the News 12 team in July of 2019 as Morning & Midday Anchor.
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Stan Smith
Anchor
Stan Smith has been with News 12 since 2018, and is now the morning co-anchor for KXII.
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Meredith McCown
Weekend Anchor/Reporter
Meredith McCown is the weekend anchor for KXII in Sherman, Texas.
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Caroline Cluiss
Reporter
Caroline Cluiss began reporting for KXII’s Ardmore bureau in June 2020. She’s a North Texas native and graduated from the University of North Texas with a BA in Broadcast and Digital Journalism. Now she’s enjoying getting to know the beauty and history of Southern Oklahoma.
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Braylee McCoy
Reporter
I've grown up going to Lake Texoma, so I'm excited to be here to tell the stories that people care about.
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Michael Rogers
Reporter
My name is Michael Rogers, I am from Frisco, Texas and recently graduated from Texas Christian University. I started here at KXII on May 11th. I am an MMJ/Reporter interested in all types of news.
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Emily Tabar
Reporter
Emily is a graduate of Duquesne University in Pittsburgh, PA, where she received her bachelor’s degree in Multiplatform Journalism in May of 2019. A native of Cleveland, OH, Emily is excited to call Texoma her new home.
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Joe Valdez
Reporter
Joe Valdez joined the News 12 team as a reporter covering the Ardmore and Ada areas in June of 2019.
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Steve LaNore
Chief Meteorologist
Certified Broadcast Meteorologist, 6-time award winner, KXII's Chief Meteorologist since 2006
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Tom Miller
Meteorologist
Tom Miller joined KXII-TV in September 1988. He can be seen Monday through Friday on News12 AM at 5 to 7 a.m., and on News 12 at Noon.
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Tom Hale
Meteorologist
I have 20 years of forecasting DFW and Texoma weather at 1080 KRLD & KXII-TV. Under my watch at KRLD we received 4 Edward R Murrow awards for continuous storm coverage. Here at KXII News 12, I serve as weekend meteorologist. Weekdays, I’m the on-air back up for our Chief Meteorologist & Morning Meteorologist and part of the severe weather team.
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David Reed
Sports Director/Anchor
David has been the Sports Director and Sports Anchor at KXII-TV since July 2001.
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Travis Buckner
Sports Reporter
Travis Buckner is the Sports Reporter and Sports Anchor for the award-winning Sports 12 Team.
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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.