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WYMT channel 57 is the CBS affiliate in Hazard, Kentucky, serving primarily southeastern Kentucky, but also the eastern part of the Lexington market and portions of neighboring Virginia and West Virginia. It also appears on the local cable television service in Claiborne County, Tennessee.

It began broadcasting as WKYH-TV (meaning W KentuckY Hazard) on October 20, 1969 as an NBC affiliate. Prior to its inception, some counties in southeastern Kentucky were among the last remaining parts of the U.S. not to be served at all by commercial television. That condition was occasioned in part by the highly mountainous terrain of the region, but also by many residents' extreme poverty, which did not allow many families the luxury of owning sets. This, in turn, made the region very undesirable for potential outside corporate broadcasters to start a station in. Instead, WKYH was founded by local businessman Bill Gorman, who has served eight terms as mayor of Hazard.

Not surprisingly, given the strong cultural and religious tastes and predilections of its audience, traditional country, bluegrass and Southern Gospel music, local church broadcasts and paid religious programming figured very prominently in the station's early years. These programs remained a staple of WKYH-TV long after similar shows began disppearing somewhat from other Southern TV stations later in the 1970s.

In 1985, the station switched to the CBS network and adopted the new callsign WYMT, meaning "We're Your Mountain Television". The station broadcasts digital programming on channel 12; the digital signal also carries its parent station, Lexington's WKYT-TV.

Although it identifies as a station in its own right, WYMT is considered a semi-satellite of WKYT. It clears some of WKYT's syndicated programming, and the two stations share a Web site. The two stations occasionally co-brand as "Kentucky Television."

Digital Programming

The station's digital channel is multiplexed:

Digital channels
Channel Programming
12.1 / 57.1 WYMT
12.2 / 57.2 WKYT

Sports Overtime

Sports Overtime is a twice weekly sports broadcast originally airing on Friday nights and covering high school athletics. The program began airing on Saturdays in the fall of 2006. The Saturday show focuses on local and state college athletics as well as the fan favorite package "The High School Fast Break," a recap of high profile high school games from Friday Night.

The current shows are anchored by Brian Milam and Brandon Hensley on Friday nights and Jeff Archer and Brandon Hensley on Saturday nights.

News Staff

Mountain News Anchors

  • Neil Middleton (News Director)
  • Steve Hensley (6pm-11pm)
  • Danielle Morgan (6pm)
  • Bobby Harrison (Morning)
  • Heather Haley (Fill In)
  • Phil Pendleton (Weekend Fill In)

Sky Alert Weather

  • Jim Caldwell (Chief Meteorologist)
  • Scott Dimmich (Morning Meteorologist)
  • Rob Hopkins (Weekend Meteorologist)

Mountain Sports Anchors

  • Brandon Hensley (Sports Director)
  • Jeff Archer (Weekend, Sports O.T.)
  • Bobby Harrison (Morning, Sports O.T.)
  • Brian Milam (Friday Sports O.T.)
  • Derek Forrest

Bureau Chiefs

  • Jeff Allen (Cumberland Valley)
  • Phil Pendelton (Somerset)
  • Angela Sparkman (Big Sandy)

Producers

  • Michael Phillips (6pm)
  • Steve Hensley (11pm)
  • Maggie Moore (Morning)
  • Brandy Crase (Weekends)
  • Brandon Robinson (Assignment Editor)
  • Ginger Pennington (Morning A.P.)

Reporters

News

  • Danielle Morgan
  • Heather Haley
  • Marie Luby

Sports

  • Brandon Hensley
  • Jeff Archer
  • Bobby Harrison
  • Derek Forrest

Production Staff

Promotions

  • Joel Brashear (Manager)

Directors

  • Crystal Lewis (Morning)
  • Marcus Hudson (6pm)
  • Brian Risner (11pm)
  • Joel Brashear (Weekend)

Audio

  • Keep My Name Off Of This, Don Not Put Back On
  • Brian Risner (6pm)
  • Devin J. Combs (11pm)
  • Jon Wood (Weekends)

Graphics

  • Tracy Hensley (Morning)
  • Brandon Robinson(6pm)
  • Ginger Pennington (11pm)

Studio Cameras

  • Freddy Hunt (Chief Camera Operator "On Call")
  • Devin J. Combs (Morning)
  • Jon Wood (6-11pm)
  • Daniel Combs (Weekends)

Master Control

  • Kevin C. Hill (Chief Master Control - 6-11pm)
  • Dwight Lewis (Morning)
  • Alton Stacy (Weekends - 6-11pm)
  • Johnny Turner (Morning)

Other Directors

  • Tracy Hensley (Friday Morning)
  • Devin J. Combs (Overnight - Mountain Sports Update)

Past Personalities

  • Jay Crawford (Creator of "Sports Overtime" on WYMT) - Currently the host of ESPN2's "Cold Pizza".
  • Tony Turner (WYMT news anchor) - Died back in 2002 in a tragic car accident.
  • Steve Crabtree (first WYMT news anchor) - Now VP News-Station Operations at co-owned WVLT in Knoxville.
  • Darwin Singleton - Now host of "Here's Darwin" at Mobile, AL's WPMI.[1]
  • Dave Shuffett (Last WKYH News Anchor) - Now host of KET's "Kentucky Life". [2]
  • Joey Kesler (First Full-Time WKYH Weatherman) - Co-Owner of WOBZ-LP and WJJA-FM.
  • Jim Freeman (recent co-host of the WYMT morning show) - Now News anchor for sister station WVLT
  • DeAnn Stephens (Past Mountain News This Morning Anchor) - Now Reporter/ Anchor at WKYT
  • Scott Burchett (Former Fill-In Weather Anchor) - Now working in the medical field
  • Chas Gayheart (Former Morning News Anchor) - Now working for Ky Cancer Coalition.
  • Susan Nicholas (former WYMT News Anchor) - Now a weekend anchor for sister station WSAZ in Huntington, West Virginia.
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