Longtime WKYT sports activities director Brian Milam stated goodbye to the Lexington, Kentucky CBS affiliate and native TV after 27 years to work as communications and media director for the Kentucky Excessive College Athletic Affiliation.
“We’re extraordinarily happy so as to add Brian to our communication staff. His ardour for highschool athletics and athletes is well-known and has been proven in his decades-long work with two Kentucky CBS affiliate stations,” KHSAA commissioner Julian Tackett stated in a press launch. “Brian has labored with a lot of our member faculties, athletic administrators, coaches, athletes, our workers and varied media throughout the state.”
“It’s becoming that the Kentucky Excessive College Athletic Affiliation would additionally see the identical qualities in Brian after they began in search of a brand new communications director,” stated WKYT information director Robert Thomas.
Milam began his profession at WYMT in Hazard in 1998 earlier than he moved to sister station WKYT in Lexington in 2010. He’s been WKYT’s sports activities director and principal sports activities anchor since 2017.
“To say this chance to forged a brighter gentle and function assist for others to additionally promote Kentucky highschool athletics and athletes is a dream may not utterly cowl my pleasure about becoming a member of the KHSAA workers’s communication staff,” Milam stated. “I’ve cherished all my time at WYMT and WKYT, and the nice of us at Grey Communications. Each locations have allowed me to be the most effective model of a reporter and historian for athletics, which has led to this subsequent step.”
