Meet The Team

Mark comes to WSAW after working at WEAU in Eau Claire for almost 6 years. Mark was born in Pottstown, PA, but after graduating from Owen J. Roberts High School moved to Wisconsin to attend the University of Wisconsin- Stevens Point before transferring to Mississippi State.

Austin Kopnitsky came to WSAW as Sunrise 7 Meteorologist in April 2019. Austin came from Sioux City, Iowa where he was a weekend meteorologist, as well as a reporter. Austin later became the morning meteorologist before moving to Wausau.

Jeremy Tabin is a familiar face here in Northcentral Wisconsin. He arrived at NewsChannel 7 in May 2007 after spending more than three years working as a meteorologist at another station in Wausau, as well as providing forecasts on a variety of radio stations in town.

Chad Franzen returns to central Wisconsin for another stint at forecasting the quickly changing weather of Wisconsin. Chad worked in Wausau at another station from 1998 until 2004 and then spent another 2 years working at WREX in Rockford, Illinois.

Reece Van Haaften joined WSAW in November 2017 as a sports director. Reece is originally from Chaska, Minnesota, but he’s been all around the Midwest. Nebraska, Kansas, Oklahoma, Michigan, Minnesota and South Dakota are all the places Reece has called home.

Matt Infield joined WSAW in August 2018 primarily as a sports reporter, with some responsibilities in news as well.

Brennen Scarborough joined the NewsChannel 7 team in June of 2018 as a reporter. Brennen was born and raised in Hawaii, on the island of Oahu. He graduated from the University of Northwestern-St. Paul with a degree in multimedia communications with a double major in Bible. He also played on the football team for all four years.

Emily Davies began her career at NewsChannel 7 in 2013 and has worked in several positions since then. She helped launch the 7 Investigates team in 2016, which has done award-winning work for the people of north-central Wisconsin.

Naomi joined WSAW in September 2018 as the News at Nine producer, before moving full-time to the 7 Investigates division in Spring of 2019.

Jacqueline Policastro created the Gray Television Washington News Bureau in 2014. She’s covered Congress and the White House for more than a decade.

Ted Fioraliso returned to Washington, D.C. in April 2016 as a senior reporter/executive producer at the Gray Television Washington News Bureau.

Peter Zampa joined the Gray Television Washington News Bureau in June 2015 as a multimedia journalist.

Alana Austin joined the Gray Television Washington News Bureau team in August 2017 after spending three years covering national and state politics in Richmond, Virginia at Gray TV's WVIR-TV.

Kyle Midura joined the Gray Television Washington News Bureau in September 2017 from Gray TV's WCAX-TV.

Timothy Knapp joined the Gray Television Washington News Bureau in September 2018 as Studio Manager and Photojournalist. He now serves as Supervisor of Videography.

Jillian Angeline joined the Gray Television Washington News Bureau in January 2019 as a multimedia journalist.

Karen Daborowski joined the Gray Television Washington News Bureau in January 2019 as a producer.

Natalie Grim joined the Gray Television Washington News Bureau as a multimedia journalist in June 2019.

Kristin Kasper joined the Gray Television Washington News Bureau in July of 2019 as a multimedia journalist.

Tyler Smith joined the Gray Television Washington News Bureau in July 2019 as a photojournalist/editor.