Former Southeastern Channel sports reporter-anchor Richie Mills is now Weekend Sports Anchor at WGNO-TV Channel 26 (ABC) in New Orleans (DMA 50). As anchor Mills will now host the Friday, Saturday, and Sunday sports segments of WGNO’s weekend newscasts. He’ll also continue as Sports Reporter during the week, reporting on local professional, college, and high school sports each day for WGNO’s “Sports Zone” and the “News With a Twist” newscast. Mills took over his current Sports MMJ position after one year of serving as Morning News Producer of WGNO’s morning newscasts. A 2015 graduate of Southeastern, Mills moved to New Orleans from Shreveport (DMA 82) where he was a news reporter for KTBS-TV Channel 3 (ABC) as the station’s East Texas Correspondent. Prior to that, he was Morning Show news producer at KATC-TV Channel 3 (ABC) in Lafayette (DMA 120) where his morning newscast won first place in the Associated Press Louisiana-Mississippi Broadcasters competition. At the Southeastern Channel, Mills was reporter-anchor for “Northshore News” and reporter-anchor-producer for “The Big Game” sportscast, winning national honors from the Videographer Awards and regional Mark of Excellence honors from the Society of Professional Journalists.
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