Ashley Ryan Joins KDVR Denver As Weekday Morning Co-Anchor

Nexstar Media’s Fox affiliate KDVR Denver has hired Ashley Ryan as co-anchor of Fox31 Morning News effective Aug. 16. She will team with current anchor Kirk Yuhnke from 4:30 to 10 a.m. weekday mornings.

She joins from KOTV Tulsa, Okla., where she was anchor of the 4 and 9 p.m. newscasts since October of 2017. Before that she was morning anchor for WLTX Columbia, S.C. Prior to that Ryan was anchor and reporter for WBIR Knoxville, Tenn., and WBND South Bend, Ind.

She began her television career at WBBM Chicago as an investigative intern. While in Tulsa, Ashley led coverage of high-profile stories including Tulsa’s historic teacher walkout, former President Trump’s first COVID campaign rally, the centennial of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, and the state’s deadly thousand-year flood.

She will use her married name of “Ryan” while on-air in Denver, changed from “Izbicki.” She is a graduate of Columbia College in Chicago, Illinois where she earned a Bachelor of Arts in broadcast journalism.