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Meet the Team
Efren Afante
Chief Meteorologist Efren Afante, a native New Yorker, joined The News19 Weather Team in May of 2015.
Reggie Anderson
Reggie Anderson has been a member of the WLTX Sports Department since 1993.
J.R. Berry
It seems that J.R. Berry was destined to become a television anchorman.
Daniel Bonds
Daniel Bonds joined the News19 weather team in July of 2007.
Becky Budds
Becky is a graduate of DePaul University where she studied Journalism and Public Relations.
Zoie Henry
Zoie grew up in Chicago and previously worked in Arkansas.
Nydja Hood
Nydja is a Multiskilled Journalist at WLTX and native New Yorker, but no stranger to the South.
Walker Lawson
Street Squad is in counties across the Midlands telling stories you want to see on TV
Peyton Lewis
She joined the team in February of 2022, after working at 41NBC in Macon, Georgia.
Chandler Mack
Chandler Mack joined the News19 team in May 2017.
Andrea Mock
Andrea Mock has been an Evening Anchor at WLTX since April of 2007.
Sam Perez
Sam’s passion for storytelling started in middle school when she joined the speech and debate team.
Rachel Ripp
Rachel Ripp is a Multi-Skilled Journalist at WLTX-TV in Columbia, SC where she covers a range of topics.
Cory Smith
He graduated with a B.S. in Meteorology from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte.
Nate Stanley
Nate grew up in Philadelphia but has moved South to cover the news in the Midlands.
Darci Strickland
There was never any doubt as to what kind of career Darci Strickland would have: it had to be communication.
Whitney Sullivan
Whitney is committed to creating and delivering innovative content that engages, informs, encourages and impacts the community.
Erin Walker
Erin was born and raised in New Jersey. In 2012, when Hurricane Sandy made landfall in New Jersey, her passion for meteorology truly began.
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