Meet The Team

Weather Team

Ron Demers
Ron Demers
Chief Storm Team 4 Meteorologist

When Ron Demers was growing up in Storm Lake, Iowa, he never would have guessed he'd be doing weather for the station he grew up watching. Ron's attention didn't turn to weather until after he started working at KTIV.

Jacob Howard
Jacob Howard
Storm Team 4 Meteorologist

Jacob Howard joined KTIV in June 2022 as the new Storm Team 4 Meteorologist. He was born and raised in small-town Raleigh, MS just south of Jackson.

Elizabeth Breen
Elizabeth Breen
Producer/Storm Team 4

Elizabeth has grown up with a passion for writing and storytelling, which she decided to apply for a career in broadcast journalism.

Sports Team

Brad Pautsch
Brad Pautsch
Sports Director

Brad Pautsch was named Sports Director in 1996 after serving as weekend sports anchor at KTIV since May of 1990. Brad grew up on a farm near Early, Iowa, and is one of the many native Siouxlanders who work at “Siouxland’s News Channel”.

Jayson Moeller
Jayson Moeller
Multi-media journalist and sports reporter

Jayson Moeller holds multiple positions within the college's newsroom as an anchor and producer for WIT's daily newscasts, while also hosting/producing a weekly radio show on the colleges radio network comet radio.

Morgan Jones
Morgan Jones
Sports/Multimedia Journalist

Morgan Jones joined KTIV in May of 2023 as a Sports/Multimedia Journalist. She was raised in Annandale, MN and left her hometown to go to Briar Cliff University.

Amber Salas
Amber Salas
Weekend Sports Anchor

Amber Salas joined KTIV in January 2022 as a Sports/Multimedia Journalist. She was born and raised in San Clemente, CA, and left for the first time to begin her reporting career in Sioux City.

Leadership

Bridget Breen
Bridget Breen
Vice President/General Manager
Dean Welte
Dean Welte
Digital Content Manager

Dean Welte joined KTIV in October of 2018 and works as the station's Digital Content Manager

Brandon Martin
Brandon Martin
Assignment Editor

Brandon Martin rejoined KTIV in 2022 and now handles the assignment desk along with producing newscasts and web content.

Mark Haggar
Mark Haggar
Assignment Editor

Mark is returning to KTIV after over 25 years. He was with the station from 1990-1996, first serving as a news producer, then Assignment Editor. After leaving KTIV, Mark went on to a producer position with WHO in Des Moines and later News Director at KLKN in Lincoln, Nebraska.

Gray DC Bureau

Peter Zampa
Peter Zampa
Multimedia Journalist

Peter Zampa joined the Gray Television Washington News Bureau in June 2015 as a multimedia journalist.

Timothy Knapp
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.

Tyler S. Smith
Tyler S. Smith
Photojournalist/Editor

Tyler Smith joined the Gray Television Washington News Bureau in July 2019 as a photojournalist/editor.

Jamie Bittner
Jamie Bittner
Multimedia Journalist

Jamie Bittner joined the Gray Television Washington News Bureau in December 2021.

Priscilla Huff
Priscilla Huff
Managing Editor

Priscilla Huff is the Managing Editor for the Washington, DC Bureau. She joined the Gray Television in January 2022 as a producer.

Brendan Cullerton
Brendan Cullerton
Multimedia Journalist

Brendan Cullerton joined the Gray Television Washington News Bureau in March 2022 as a multimedia journalist after spending four years covering state, local, and federal politics for the CBS affiliate in Milwaukee.

Molly Martinez
Molly Martinez
Multimedia Journalist

Molly Martinez rejoined Gray Television in March 2022 as a multimedia journalist in the Washington News Bureau. She previously covered politics at Gray TV's KFYR-TV in Bismarck, N.D.

Josh Rultenberg
Josh Rultenberg
Multimedia Journalist

Josh Rultenberg joined the Gray Television Washington News Bureau in July 2022 as a multimedia journalist.

Jon Decker
Jon Decker
White House Correspondent and Senior National Editor

Jon Decker is the White House Correspondent and Senior National Editor for Gray Television and has been a member of the White House Press Corps since 1995.

Annie Andersen

Annie has worked at various news outlets in Washington, D.C., including covering the 2020 and 2022 election cycles for C-SPAN. Before that she worked at local stations in Louisiana and Virginia.

Stetson Miller
Stetson Miller
Multimedia Journalist

Stetson Miller joined the Gray Television Washington News Bureau in February 2023 as a multimedia journalist after working at WTOP, WJZ in Baltimore and WCBD in Charleston, SC.