Bill joined the CFJC-TV news team as Anchor and Producer in September, 2001.Prior to moving to Kamloops, he co-anchored Southern Saskatchewan's top-rated newscast at CTV Regina.Bill spent 15 years at CTV Regina, starting at a Sports Reporter/Anchor before moving into the News Anchor chair. Originally from Williams Lake, Bill's first job was in Dawson Creek in 1976. That was followed by stops in Williams Lake, Penticton and Kamloops, working with Earl Seitz in sports. Bill, his wife Audrey, and their family are happy to be back in Kamloops. You can see Bill as the public address announcer at the Blazer games, and out on the golf course on a regular basis during the summer months.

Susan Edgell is an award winning journalist who has called Kamloops home for the past seven years. Susan wears several different hats at CFJC-TV; hosting and producing CFJC's Midday Show, presenting weather on the Evening News, and she also anchors the 6:30pm newscast. Before CFJC-TV, Susan was the primary anchor at a television station in Victoria. She graduated with honours from BCIT and also holds a degree in Sociology from the University of Victoria. When she's not working, Susan enjoys spending time at the Shuswap camping and boating. She also enjoys baking, travelling, and volunteers for numerous worthwhile charities. Her proudest accomplishments; being the mother to her two beautiful children, Nicholas and Natalia.

Earl Seitz, nicknamed "Foster" by former Blazer and NHL Coach Barry Melrose when he played in Kamloops, is the "dean" of active sportscasters in British Columbia. Born and raised on a farm outside of the small village of Duchess, Alberta, Earl is into his 44th year of broadcasing in 2012, and 38th at Broadcast Centre. His interest in media began at a very early age. In 1953, during a family visit to Kansas, he saw television for the first time. Earl and his wife Velma have two children and three grandchildren. He embraces the Kamloops Tournament Capital Brand, and the wide range of sports events it brings to the City. Earl was recognized for his contributions to the sports community with the presentation of a Lifetime Achievment Award by the Radio-Television News Directors Association in 2011.

Doug Collins is the Director of News, Information and Television Operations at CFJC-TV. He is the senior broadcaster in Kamloops, which means he is like the Energizer Bunny and just keeps on going. Doug has been on the air in Kamloops since April of 1970. He has had a wide background in the industry, having done virtually every type of news and sports broadcasting, including news anchor, sports play-by-play, and editorialist. His "One Man's Opinion" has been airing in Kamloops since 1973. Doug has long been active in the community. His passion is coaching, and for over 30 years he coached high school football, baseball, soccer, and basketball. He is a former President of Kamloops Minor Baseball, was active for several years in the B.C. High School Rodeo Association, and was also active as a baseball umpire. In 1984, Doug was named Kamloops' Sports Person of the Year. Aside from sports, Doug has been a member of the Mayor's Task Force on Housing, the Kamloops Arts Commission, the Board of the "Y" and co-chair of the Y's Strong Kids Campaign. He is an active Freemason and Shriner, and has worked to raise funds for charities such as the Cancer Car Project to drive cancer patients free of charge to treatment centres, and the Shriners Travel Fund to purchase busses and transport young patients to Shriner's Hospitals in Portland and Spokane from all over B.C. In 2008, Doug was presented with a Lifetime Achievement Award from his peers in the Radio-Television News Directors Association of Canada, and was also named the 2008 Broadcaster of the Year by the B.C. Association of Broadcasters. Doug's wife Sue has been his strength for more than 40 years, and they have three children and three grandchildren.

Victoria born and raised, Sandy joined the CFJC-TV news team in 1980 as a radio and television news reporter. She is a graduate of BCIT's Broadcast Journalism program. In 1999 she was promoted to Assistant News Director and Assignment Editor. Sandy is an active member of the Radio and Television News Directors Association of BC and Canada, and has twice served as organisation's Television Director for BC. Sandy has also served a 4 year term on the National Editorial Board for the Canadian Press. Sandy is a Jack Webster Foundation Fellowship recipient which allowed her to attend the Poynter Institute in Florida in 2009. Sandy is active in the community, and has chaired, served as a director, volunteered, and MC'd, for many organizations and events -- including Kamloops Crimestoppers, ASK Wellness, ALS Society, SPCA , and she helped organize a regional conference on substance abuse. Besides running the newsroom, Sandy's duties include fill-in hosting and desking on TV and radio, and producing news specials. During 3 decades in broadcast journalism Sandy has helped bring numerous provincial and national awards to Kamloops, from groups including RTNDA, BC Association of Broadcasters, Canadian Association of Broadcasters, Edward R Murrow and a Jack Webster Award. Sandy is married to Kevin, and they have one child.

Raffelina is one of the most passionate journalists in Kamloops, and is the "go to" reporter in the CFJC-TV newsroom. When there is a difficult story to cover, Raff's sensitivity brings out the best in her talents. When there's an emergency, she's the first to volunteer, much to the chagrin of her husband when she gets up at 3:00 in the morning to go to a fire or police event. Covering everything from high profile murder cases to charity fundraisers, this award winning journalist has just as much passion for her job today as the first day she started 20 years ago. Raffelina is a firm believer in local news - and the importance of keeping residents informed about what's going on in their own backyard. If Raffelina is covering a story, you can bet "no comment" won't be acceptable as a comment when she tracks you down. Raffelina is married and the proud mother of three boys actively involved in both soccer and hockey . Born and raised in Kamloops, Raff pursued her Communications diploma at Cariboo College and attended the BCIT broadcast journalism program in Burnaby. Raffelina is involved in the community - supporting events such as the ALS society, the Aids walk and the Canadian Cancer Society to name a few. Some of the awards Raffelina's stories have been honoured by the regional and national arms of the Radio Television News Directors Association, B.C. Association of Broadcasters, and she has received several Edward. R. Murrow awards. She has also been a finalist for a Jack Webster award.

Chad Klassen is the newest member of the CFJC-TV News team, joining the station in November, 2011 after studying broadcast journalism at BCIT. It's been his long-time goal to make it in television. Inspired by his dad Rick, who enjoyed a 10-year CFL career with the B.C. Lions and Saskatchewan Roughriders, Chad's wanted to be a sportscaster from the time he was young, and sports is still his dream. But covering the great stories and people of the Kamloops community has quickly become just as important. Prior to coming to CFJC-TV, Chad headed up a university football show on Shaw TV, producing and co-hosting the half hour show on the CIS gridiron. He also spent three years covering CIS football as the sports editor at Simon Fraser University, covering the Clan's triumphant resurgence from a winless program to a conference finalist. Chad called hockey and volleyball play-by-play during his time on the Burnaby campus while finishing his Communications degree. But his career highlight to this point has been covering the Men's hockey tournament at the 2010 Winter Olympics. He watched nearly every game of the tournament from the upper deck of Canada Hockey Place in Vancouver and witnessed maybe the greatest goal in Canadian hockey history, Sidney Crosby's golden goal standing behind the net. Chad has family connections in Kamloops. His mom Pat lived here for five years as a teenager and his uncle Reg, who graduated here, still resides in the area.

Gareth recently moved to Kamloops to join CFJC-TV News after working as a videojournalist for BBN3 where he produced feature stories for CHEK 6 News. Before embarking on his career in journalism Gareth worked for Simon Fraser University for ten years where he helped produce several documentaries within their Media Design unit. Gareth also has a passion for education as he has earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Film, a diploma in Broadcast Journalism, as well as a diploma in Telecommunications. He currently studies Political Science at Thompson Rivers University. In 2010 Gareth received the CKNW Excellence in Journalism Award presented to a BCIT student in Broadcast Journalism. While working for SFU he also received the 2007 Fred Dietrich award given to a member of the community who donates their time and energy to enhance the experience of SFU student athletes. Gareth has a strong love of sports, and fills in as sports anchor when Earl Seitz is away.

For the past 5 years, Tanya has been a part of the CFJC-TV News Team. Working first on the radio side as a weekend anchor, she quickly moved into television, where she has been reporting and anchoring, even filling in as the weather personality, ever since. Tanya was born and raised in North Vancouver, and has been a news junkie for as long as she can remember. She attended BCIT and graduated from the Broadcast Radio Program in 2005. From there, Tanya spent time interning at CTV, before being hired at Shaw TV in Vancouver to host hourly news breaks. One year later, she made the move to Kamloops to join the CFJC-TV family. Tanya's favourite part of the job is meeting people and hearing their stories. She loves that everyday is different and there's always opportunity to learn something new. A musical theatre 'fanatic' Tanya has been performing since she could talk, and has held lead roles in several Musical Theatre productions around Vancouver. With a passion for singing and dancing, her first love is the stage. Outside of work she makes sure to fulfull that passion, keeping it alive. Tanya loves to travel and spend time with family and friends. She tries to head home to Vancouver whenever possible, to do just that.

James Peters got the journalism bug as a youth and hasn't been able to shake it since. The fever really started to set in shortly after James graduated from Garden Valley Collegiate in Winkler, Manitoba, when he was hired as a reporter for his hometown CKMW-CFAM Radio. Before he knew which way to point the microphone, he was interviewing Governor General Romeo LeBlanc. Though he took a break to dabble in the clergy, James returned to broadcast news in 2005 with CHUB-CFDV in Red Deer, Alberta. In the summer of 2006, he snapped up the opportunity to move to the award-winning CFJC-TV newsroom in Kamloops. To this day, James anchors the afternoon news on B-100 and 98.3 CIFM. His newscasts have been honoured as the best small market newscast in BC four times by the RTDNA. In 2010, the same organization honoured one of James' newscasts as the best in Canada. In addition, he contributes twice-weekly editorials to the CFJC Evening News, and tweets regularly (@Jamloops). When he's not working, James enjoys spending time with his wife Jennie, his daughter Eden, and his son Jovan.

Doug Herbert was very pleased to join the CFJC-TV news team in July 2011. Having interned with CFJC-TV in early 2010 Doug knew he wanted to come back and jumped at the chance when the job became available. Prior to making the move to Kamloops, Doug worked as an anchor and reporter for BC's most listened to news station, CKNW 980, in Vancouver. While there he covered many different things including: elections, an overnight hostage taking, various other crimes as well as the Stanley Cup riot. He received his training as a journalist at BCIT but became a news junkie at an early age while delivering the Vancouver Sun. The immediacy of radio was one of the things Doug really enjoyed while working at CKNW but he wanted to branch into television as well. CFJC-TV has given him the best of both worlds allowing him to work in radio 2 days a week and in TV the other 3. While he was asked to make the jump to Kamloops just 4 days after being married to his lovely wife Sarah, the decision was a "no brainer" And that's not because Sarah is the real brains in the family. He thinks it's been great so far and it will only get better.

Kent Simmonds is our senior news cameraman/editor. He serves as a mentor to our younger shooters. Kent started his career with CFJC TV in 1987. He started by working out of our Williams Lake office for eight years covering news and sports as well as shooting commercials in the Cariboo from Quesnel to 100 Mile House. In 1995 Kent moved back to Kamloops as a news and sports shooter and editor. Kent has been honoured repeatedly by the Radio and Television News Directors Association for numerous stories he has shot and edited. In his spare time Kent spends time with his son Jonah hiking and biking.

Tom came to us following a career as a teacher in Prince George and the two-year Television Program at BCIT. During his time in Burnaby he was also active as a volunteer at community events, and was a sports shooter for Rogers. He joined CFJC-TV in 1991 right out of a practicum, working in both the Control Room and part-time in News. By the mid-90's, he was in the newsroom full time, and became particularly adept at shooting sports, a lifelong interest. He continues to enjoy covering the Blazers, B.C. Lions' camps, and a wide range of other sporting and news areas. Outside of work, Tom played a wide range of sports, and coached rugby and girl's basketball at the high school level. He now enjoys participating in running and walking events, kayaking and the new sport of Standup Paddle boarding (SUP). His other passion is music, is an avid concert and musical theatre-goer, and has played in several dance bands while in Prince George.