Caylee Kirby got bitten by the television journalism bug at an early age. Now she has just been promoted to one of the main morning anchors on WTOL-TV, Channel 11.
As a little girl growing up in Las Vegas, Kirby used to watch television newscasts with her parents and grandparents and it had a profound effect on the youngster.
“My parents and grandparents always had on the network morning news. I grew up watching all sorts of national and local news and I was just so fascinated by it all,” said Kirby.
In middle school, she took a course in TV journalism production, and decided she wanted to pursue it as a career someday. And when Kirby enrolled at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, known as UNLV, she pursued her studies in broadcast journalism.
Kirby’s first job out of UNLV took her from the arid sands of the desert to the frozen tundra of Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, where she worked at WBUP-ABC 10. But after 11 months, she began to long for warmer temperatures.
“It was just way too cold up in the U.P.,” said Kirby with a laugh.