Kennan Oliphant Named WXYZ-WMYD News Director

Kennan Oliphant

E.W. Scripps-owned ABC affiliate WXYZ and independent WMYD in Detroit have promoted Kennan Oliphant, currently interim news director, to news director. Prior to being interim news director, he was the assistant news director.

Mike Murri, WXYZ VP-GM said: “Kennan has demonstrated incredible leadership at WXYZ and throughout his career at Scripps. He is a well-respected journalist committed to making the community we serve better. I’m so grateful and proud to have Kennan leading our newsroom in Detroit.”

A Detroit native, Oliphant has worked in multiple states as a journalist. He began his career at WDIV Detroit before getting his big break to be an on-air reporter for KNOE Monroe, La. Spending less than a year in Louisiana, Kennan moved to Evansville, Ind., where he was a reporter, then spent five years at WDTN Dayton, Ohio, as the chief consumer investigative reporter.

He also spent time as an executive producer at WMBF Myrtle Beach, S.C.; assistant news director at WLBT Jackson, Miss.; manager of coverage and content for WHBQ Memphis; and the senior manager of broadcast at WCPO Cincinnati.