Allison Seymour Joins WUSA Washington

Tegna-owned CBS affiliate WUSA Washington is adding Allison Seymour to its Get Up DC! team beginning today.

Get Up DC! is hosted by Reese Waters, and co-anchored by fellow District natives Tony Perkins and Annie Yu. The show offers the latest news, traffic, weather and trending stories. Get Up DC! airs live weekdays from 4:25 to 7 a.m.

Allison Seymour is an Emmy-winning anchor who woke up viewers on morning news in her hometown of Washington since 1999 on WTTG until leaving in August.

Seymour started her career in television at the D.C. bureau of ABC News, behind the scenes, before earning her Master of Mass Communication from the University of South Carolina. She is a graduate of Hampton University, where she is a member of the school’s Mass Media Hall of Fame.

Seymour’s on-air career began during the blizzard of 1993 in Upstate New York. She would go on to work in Utica, Binghamton and Albany, all New York.

During the summer of 1998 Allison took an anchor position in St. Louis, Missouri where, on her first day on the job, she met her future husband, radio host Marc Clarke.