WKOW Adds George Smith As Evening Anchor

Quincy Media-owned ABC affiliate WKOW Madison, Wis. (DMA 81) has named George Smith evening news anchor. Smith will join co-anchor Amber Noggle on the news desk weeknights at 5, 6 and 10 p.m.

Smith has been a TV anchor and reporter for more than two decades. He has anchored evening newscasts at WOIO Cleveland, Ohio, and spent a decade as a correspondent for ESPN, appearing on Sports Center and Outside the Lines.

Before coming to Madison, smith was working at WFLD in Chicago. He will start his on-air duties in Madison in mid-to-late April.

Smith attended Oberlin College and earned his master’s degree at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism.