Meet The Team

Sharon anchors our 4, 5 and 10 p.m. newscasts. She has been working at KWQC since 1989.

Doing a job your entire adult life in your hometown has to be for the love of it. That’s exactly how Paula Sands feels about her 38 years at KWQC.

Marcia produces and anchors the News at Noon, reports, and creates digital content.

Morgan Ottier started at KWQC in September of 2010 after spending the summer interning with the station. She fell in love with the QCA and loves living here. Morgan lives in Davenport with her husband, Jim, and young daughter, Darby.

Jenna Jackson started at KWQC back in July 2017. Born and raised in the Quad Cities, she is thrilled to join her hometown station each morning on Quad Cities Today.

Dustin joins Quad Cities Today as an award-winning journalist. He’s excited to continue to grow and to continue putting his roots down in the QCA.

Redrick Terry comes to KWQC with four-and-a-half years of experience covering stories in the Quad Cities.

Brianna Ballog started at KWQC in July 2023 as a Multimedia Journalist.

Larry started at KWQC in October 2022 as a Multimedia Journalist.

A native of East Moline, Matt Christensen is an award-winning journalist with 17 years of experience in newsrooms around the country. He joined KWQC-TV6 in December 2022 to cover investigations and work on INSI6HT.

Joushua started as a reporter for Quad Cities Today in August 2023.

Kyle Bales joined the KWQC team as a Multimedia Journalist in June 2023.

Wafaa Ezzat joined KWQC as a Multimedia Journalist in August 2023.

Solomon Ladvienka joins the KWQC team in 2023 after graduating from California State University, Northridge in the Los Angeles area. Solomon had spent time as a production assistant for the ESPN Zone in Anaheim, working for The Walt Disney Company before making the move to the Quad Cities.

Taylor joined the KWQC-TV6 News team as a Producer in 2020. He’s a QCA native and has been living in the area since graduating from Millikin University in 2015. He produces the evening newscasts.

Brady joined the KWQC-TV6 news team in June 2022 as a weekend producer.

A Quad City native, Travis joined KWQC in July of 2021 and he produces the Quad Cities Today newscasts.

Claire is a 2020 graduate of Illinois State University. With her B.S. in Mass Media, she has always had a passion for the newsroom. At TV6, she is a Content Producer for Paula Sands Live and Quad Cities Live.

Jake is a Quad City native. He joined KWQC's production team in 2008 at the age of 19 and began producing Paula Sands Live in 2011. Jake's role with PSL expanded in 2016 when he became an on-air contributor.

Debbie McFadden is a Quad Cities' veteran radio broadcaster that Joined KWQC-TV6 in April of 2020.

Heidi Knecht began at KWQC in April 2023 as a digital content producer. She’s worked as a newspaper journalist in the Illinois and Iowa Quad-Cities for more than 20 years.

Gabbi Ludwig joined KWQC in May 2022 as an Associate Producer.

Creighton is a content producer on both Quad City Today and Quad City Today Weekend.

Randy has been TV6's Chief Photojournalist since 2006.

Brad joined the KWQC TV6 news team as a photographer in July 2023.

From Joliet, Illinois, Jaren Smith started at KWQC as an Intern in October 2022 before becoming a photographer/digital producer in August 2023.

Anne joined KWQC as the news director in February 2022.

Originally from the QCA, Casey joined TV6 in 2018 as a newscast producer right after graduating from the University of Northern Iowa in Cedar Falls.

Tara Gray is an award-winning journalist with more than 13 years of experience covering Illinois and Iowa.

Madison McAdoo started as a digital content producer with KWQC in October 2021 and became Digital Director in April 2022.

Jinaya started as a news intern with KWQC in September 2023.

Alexis Terrana started as a news intern with KWQC in September 2023.

Conner covers the statehouse and other state-wide issues from our Des Moines bureau.

In his second stint at KWQC, Erik has been Chief Meteorologist since his return in 2011. Prior to that Erik was with KWQC for 13 years from 1993 to 2006

Theresa Bryant has been a member of the KWQC-TV6 news team since 1992.

Cyle joined the TV6 First Alert weather team in January 2023. Previously, Cyle worked at WSNN-TV in Sarasota, Florida, and Studstill Radio Group in LaSalle-Peru, Illinois.

Kyle is a QC native and joined the KWQC-TV6 team in November 2021 as a reporter, digital anchor and fill-in meteorologist.

Joey has been proud to work for KWQC since 2014. Joey is an award winning sportscaster and loves telling the stories of what makes an athlete or team so special.

Evan Denton started at KWQC in January 2022 as a reporter.

Kevin is a Bowling Green State University grad who joined the KWQC team in 2011.