Craig Ford is the co-anchor of WTVA News Live at 6 and
WTVA News Live at 10. He arrived in North Mississippi
in December 1999 to help launch the 9pm news on WLOV
and added anchor duties on WTVA in July 2001.
Besides that, Ford is one of the anchors for WKDH Prime
News, which began in the spring of 2003.
Ford joined WTVA/WLOV/WKDH after working as news director
and 6pm anchor for WHLT-TV in Hattiesburg-Laurel, Mississippi
where he was hired to put together a news operation for
the CBS affiliate.
Before that, he was responsible for a six hour news
block as an afternoon news editor for KTRH-AM in Houston,
Texas. His career also includes stops at WWL-TV in New
Orleans, Louisiana as an assignment editor, WWL-AM in
New Orleans, Louisiana as a news reporter/anchor and
WBBN-FM in Laurel-Hattiesburg, Mississippi as news director.
Throughout his career, Ford has won many awards, including
two national honors. He was recognized by the Radio-Television
News Directors Association when WBBN-FM was named the
1995 winner of the Edward R. Murrow Award for spot news
coverage in small market radio.
In 1999, he was part of the team at KTRH-AM that won
a National Headliner Award from the Press Club of Atlantic
City for Best Newscast, beating newscasts from ABC and
CBS Radio.
Ford was also named Best Radio Reporter two years in
a row by the Louisiana Associated Press Broadcasters
Association and Best Radio News Person by the Mississippi
Association of Broadcasters.
Ford was born in Memphis, Tennessee. He later moved
to Amory and graduated from Smithville High School. Ford
also graduated from the University of Southern Mississippi
with a degree in broadcasting. He resides in Monroe County
with his wife Stephanie.
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