Media Moves

Birmingham CBS affiliate hires Schafer as sports reporter

September 12, 2023

Posted by Mariam Ahmed

Arielle Schafer

Arielle Schafer has joined WIAT-TV Ch. 42, a CBS station in Birmingham, Ala., as a sports reporter. She wrote on X/Twitter:

“I’m so excited & so blessed to start this next chapter of my career!”

Recently, Schafer was at KLBK-TV Ch. 13, a CBS affiliate in Lubbock, Texas, where she served as a weekend sports reporter/anchor, and recently as a sports director. She also worked as a sideline reporter at ESPN+.

She was also a weekend sports anchor/reporter at WVUA-TV Ch. 23, a low-power TV station in Alabama, and a sideline reporter at ESPN.

Schafer has a bachelor’s and master’s degree from the University of Alabama.

You can congratulate Schafer on X/Twitter.

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