Steve Ring - Anchor/Executive Producer

Steve anchors the 5pm newscast and serves as executive producer at WRBL. He brings close to 18 years of television news experience to the job. Steve is a West Virginia native. After graduating from Marshall University in Huntington, WV, his TV news career started as a weekend reporter at WSAZ, also in Huntington. Then, it was on to WBOY in Clarksburg, West Virginia, for a job, initially as a bureau chief and eventually, as main anchor. Steve left for Tallahassee, Florida, in 1993, where he worked over eight years as lead anchor at WTXL. In the middle of that, he spent close to two years as a main newscaster at KBTX-TV in the Waco, Texas, market. In 2003, Steve returned to West Virginia and worked until August 2007 as a lead anchor and managing editor at WVNS-TV in the Beckley/Bluefield/Lewisburg area. The station was without a news operation, and Steve was part of the team that helped build the news product from scratch. For his reporting and anchoring work, Steve received a Florida Associated Press Outstanding Achievement award in 1996. In 1998, he took home an American Heart Association Excellence in Cardiovascular Communications award for a public service announcement he produced and appeared in for the American Heart Walk. While working in Texas, Steve was honored with a Texas Medical Association award for his report, detailing a state-of-the-art implant that allows Parkinson’s patients to live without tremors. In 2003, Steve was named the March of Dimes’ Dale Green Volunteer of the Year in Tallahassee. The award is named for a Tallahassee police officer gunned down in the line of duty. Steve strives to be as involved in the local community as he can be. As chairman of the March of Dimes’ WalkAmerica in Beckley for three straight years, Steve helped bring the proceeds from the yearly event up to close to $60,000. Steve also enjoys reading to students at elementary schools. In his spare time, Steve enjoys playing the piano. He served as organist/pianist at First Baptist Church of Beckley during his time in West Virginia. In the summer of 2006, Steve was inducted into the Hall of Fame at St. Albans High School, his alma mater. While Steve loves his job and his hobbies, his first priority is to his family. He loves spending time with his wife Joanna and his daughter Olivia.