Doug High Biography
Doug High is an American journalist who joined the ABC 36 family as a weekend news anchor in December 2009 and in September 2010 became Co-Anchor of Good Morning Kentucky weekday mornings from 5 am-7 am and Good Day Kentucky weekday mornings from 9 am to 10 am.
Originally from Mansfield, Ohio, Doug has been a Lexington resident for the past 17 years and is a 25 year veteran of the broadcasting and video production industry.
Doug High Education
Doug is a 1992 graduate of Otterbein faculty in Westerville, Ohio where he received a Bachelor of Arts in History. He’s a Commander / Public Affairs Officer within the U.S. Navy Reserve, having requested a direct commission following Sept. 11, 2001.
Doug High Career | ABC 36
In 1993 his broadcasting career began in Ashland, Ohio at community station TV-59 and WNCO AM/FM radio, then moved to the Disney / ABC owned and operated a station in Toledo, Ohio, WTVG-TV. In 1998 he became a Weathercaster / Feature reporter at WNWO-TV in Toledo.
Doug moved to Lexington to Co-Anchor a weekly magazine program for WKYT-TVIn 2000. Since then, he has worked within the Central Kentucky video production industry as general manager of Post Time Studios from 2002 to 2008, and as an Emmy nominated documentary film producer/director for his own label, High Impact Productions and Witnessing History LLC, each with numerous film credits on KET/PBS. Doug was an associate producer of the film Nick Nolte: No Exit that was screened at the Cannes film festival marketplace in 2008.
He Co-Anchored the 1st season of the weekly, magazine program Our Ohio for statewide broadcast to Ohio’s PBS affiliates in 2006 and served as a Co-Producer and a Feature reporter for the monthly program Business Lexington seen statewide on KET in 2008.
Doug High Age
Details about Doug’s date of birth are not known therefore it is not known when he celebrates his birthday. He likes to keep his personal matters away from the public eye making it difficult to know his age, hence this information will be updated as soon as it’s available.
Doug High Sons
Doug and his family are proud to call Lexington home. He and his wife Lyssa have 2 young sons, Jackson and Harrison, and they keep them quite busy! His hobbies include travel, tennis, and reading.
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Doug High Salary
His annual salary is estimated to be between $24,292 and $72,507 or an hourly average wage of between $10.15 and $31.32. This is per our average wage estimates for a journalist in the United States.
Doug High Net Worth
Working as an anchor at ABC 36, there is no doubt he earns a good salary and has been able to accumulate good net worth. However, his exact net worth has not yet been revealed but the information will be updated as soon as it is available.
Doug High Kentucky
In 2010, Doug was appointed to the Board of Governors for the regional chapter of the National Academy of tv Arts and Sciences and served through 2014.
He volunteers as an emcee for Special Olympics Kentucky, Central Kentucky Riding for Hope, Kentucky Historical Society, Bluegrass Honor Flight, and other local nonprofit organizations. He’s on the Board of Advisors for Elizabeth Shatner’s All Glory Project, which serves veterans and their families through equine therapy.
His missions have taken him around the world, from Japan to Italy, Greece, Spain, Ukraine and the east and west coasts of Africa. Most recently Doug was deployed to Afghanistan for 7 months in 2017.
Doug High Signing Off After A Decade.
After nearly ten years anchoring the WTVQ-TV Channel thirty-six morning news, Doug High signed off on Friday. High proclaimed Thursday that the 9 a.m. newscast for the Lexington ABC TV affiliate would be his last. He has been named director of the Kentucky Historical Society Foundation in Frankfort, which he called “his dream job.” He starts on Monday. “Obviously, I’m leaving with mixed emotions. It’s bittersweet. however I’m excited regarding the next chapter,” High said.
“It’s attention-grabbing how it came together. My day here ends at 10 a.m. and I spend the remainder of the day either producing documentaries for KET or consulting,” High said. “I’ve been doing consulting for the Kentucky Historical Society and I always thought I needed to run it once I was done. but then this excellent opportunity came up.”
He will be operating with the historical society in the Thomas D. Clark museum in Frankfort. “We’re there to raise cash for the historical society, to form opportunities and partnerships,” he said. “Because of my skill set, I’m going to be serving to them with programming, producing and finding the revenue. in that regard, it’s not that totally different from what doing for years.”
High’s independent documentary film company, High Impact products, which made the Emmy-winning “Belle Brezing” for KET, will be finishing a 30 minutes documentary series for KET then he will close up shop. “History was my 1st passion, that led me to broadcast. thus I feel like I’m coming full circle,” he said. “But wakening at 2:30 or three in the morning is a game for the young,” said High, who is turning fifty this year.
High moved to Lexington from WNWO-TV in Toledo, Ohio in Dec 1999 to work at WKYT-TV. In 2002 he became general manager of Wrigley Media Group (formally Post Time Studios) before joining WTVQ-TV in December 2009 as a weekend anchor, according to the news release.
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