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Tacoma TV station names Rayford weekday evening anchor

Sabirah Rayford

Tacoma’s Fox station KCPQ-TV Ch. 13, has appointed Sabirah Rayford weekday evening anchor. Since September 2021, she has been an anchor and reporter at Houston NBC outlet KPRC-TV Ch. 2.

Before that, Rayford was a TV news reporter and fill-in-anchor at WPTV-TV Ch. 5, an NBC affiliate in West Palm Beach, Fla. She also held the posts of reporter, digital producer and fill-in-anchor at WKYT-TV Ch. 27, a CBS and CW affiliate in Lexington, Ky., where she previously interned.

Rayford has a bachelor’s degree in broadcast journalism from the University of Kentucky.

Be sure to congratulate Rayford on X/Twitter.

Mariam Ahmed

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