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Doug Proffitt
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Doug Proffitt anchors the 5, 5:30, 6 p.m., and 11 p.m. news each weeknight on WHAS TV.
Doug also anchors the WHAS 11 News @ 10 p.m. on the CW Louisville every night. He has been a news anchor and reporter for WHAS TV since April of 1987.
Doug has covered every major story in that time frame, which includes The Carrollton Bus Crash, Standard Gravure shooting, The Presidential nomination of Bill Clinton in New York (1992), The Winter Storm of 1994, Hurricane Fran (1996), the Flooding of 1997.
Doug has also been the chief anchor for live coverage of all 3 of Louisville’s Implosions:
The Belknap Warehouse (1993), The Commonwealth Building (day before the winter storm of ‘94) and The Milner Hotel (1995).
He anchored the station’s breaking news coverage of The Windstorm and Ice Storms of 2008-09, which left a record number of homeowners without power.
Since 1987, Doug has won Emmy awards for exposing city, state and county workers drinking and sleeping on the job.
A few years ago, after a weeklong series of his reports, the state of Kentucky passed what lawmakers in Frankfort called the “WHAS Law”.
It removed the Social Security number from KY Driver’s licenses, helping protect people’s identities across the state.
In 2001, The Kentucky Associated Press gave him 1st place in Enterprise and Investigative Reporting for showing how Directory Assistance (411) routinely gives you a wrong number.
In 2009 Doug and Photographer Bryan Derby were awarded first place by the Associated Press for their reporting on “Rose Island”, the popular Louisville amusement park what existed on the Ohio River, but was swept away by the 1937 Flood.
Doug is active in his hometown, through continued reporting of stories and helping groups out like Big Brothers/Big Sisters of Kentuckiana and the American Diabetes Association.
In 2008 he was named the honorary media chair of the Diabetes event and WHAS TV sponsors the annual Diabetes walk which attracts hundreds of people.
Every weeknight on WHAS, Doug profiles a Big Brother or Big Sister match, adults in Kentuckiana who are stepping up and volunteering their time to make a difference in a young person’s life.
WHAS has been proudly associated with the organization since 1990.
Doug was born and raised in Louisville and started his career as a high school intern at WHAS TV in 1978, shadowing Jim Mitchell, Kirstie Wilde and Jeffrey Hutter.
He has anchored and reported the news in Lexington, KY, and Charleston, SC, before returning to Louisville when WHAS TV called in 1987.
He and his wife Anne have two sons. His dad, Jim Proffitt still lives in Louisville.
You can email Doug at dproffitt@whas11.com
Doug also anchors the WHAS 11 News @ 10 p.m. on the CW Louisville every night. He has been a news anchor and reporter for WHAS TV since April of 1987.
Doug has covered every major story in that time frame, which includes The Carrollton Bus Crash, Standard Gravure shooting, The Presidential nomination of Bill Clinton in New York (1992), The Winter Storm of 1994, Hurricane Fran (1996), the Flooding of 1997.
Doug has also been the chief anchor for live coverage of all 3 of Louisville’s Implosions:
The Belknap Warehouse (1993), The Commonwealth Building (day before the winter storm of ‘94) and The Milner Hotel (1995).
He anchored the station’s breaking news coverage of The Windstorm and Ice Storms of 2008-09, which left a record number of homeowners without power.
Since 1987, Doug has won Emmy awards for exposing city, state and county workers drinking and sleeping on the job.
A few years ago, after a weeklong series of his reports, the state of Kentucky passed what lawmakers in Frankfort called the “WHAS Law”.
It removed the Social Security number from KY Driver’s licenses, helping protect people’s identities across the state.
In 2001, The Kentucky Associated Press gave him 1st place in Enterprise and Investigative Reporting for showing how Directory Assistance (411) routinely gives you a wrong number.
In 2009 Doug and Photographer Bryan Derby were awarded first place by the Associated Press for their reporting on “Rose Island”, the popular Louisville amusement park what existed on the Ohio River, but was swept away by the 1937 Flood.
Doug is active in his hometown, through continued reporting of stories and helping groups out like Big Brothers/Big Sisters of Kentuckiana and the American Diabetes Association.
In 2008 he was named the honorary media chair of the Diabetes event and WHAS TV sponsors the annual Diabetes walk which attracts hundreds of people.
Every weeknight on WHAS, Doug profiles a Big Brother or Big Sister match, adults in Kentuckiana who are stepping up and volunteering their time to make a difference in a young person’s life.
WHAS has been proudly associated with the organization since 1990.
Doug was born and raised in Louisville and started his career as a high school intern at WHAS TV in 1978, shadowing Jim Mitchell, Kirstie Wilde and Jeffrey Hutter.
He has anchored and reported the news in Lexington, KY, and Charleston, SC, before returning to Louisville when WHAS TV called in 1987.
He and his wife Anne have two sons. His dad, Jim Proffitt still lives in Louisville.
You can email Doug at dproffitt@whas11.com
