MIKE STEDHAM began his newscasting career at WDNG Radio in 1974 while still a junior at Jacksonville State University majoring in English. He became News Director of WDNG four years later and left in 1984 to complete his master’s degree. He worked for The Anniston Star as a reporter and editor from 1985 to 1999, and in 2000 he became manager of student media at JSU. He continued to do freelance writing for magazines, newspapers and TV during that time. Stedham retired from the university in 2022 and began working with East Alabama Now Local News at its inception in October 2022. He continues to work as a freelance writer and directs plays for the Community Actors Studio Theater in Anniston. He also writes murder-mystery scripts that have raised thousands of

dollars for local charities.

 

JON HOLDER has been the General Manager of WGRW Grace Radio 90.7 FM, a Christian radio ministry in the Anniston/Gadsden area, for 24 years. Holder is an ordained deacon at Grace Fellowship Community Church on McClellan in Anniston. He serves on the Board of Directors of the Fellowship of Christian Athletes of the Cheaha Valley and is Vice-President of the Calhoun County Sports Hall of Fame Board of Directors. He has also been a past board member of the ARC of Calhoun and Cleburne Counties and Sav-A-Life of Calhoun County and past President and board member of the East Central Alabama United Cerebral Palsy Center Board. Jon is the Producer and Host of the High School Football Alabama After The Game live streamed video show. He was a Weather Forecaster in local television news for over a dozen years and has prepared daily forecasts and anchored live severe weather coverage on Grace Radio for 24 years. Holder has worked for many years on statewide and regional television and state radio sports broadcasts. Jon is a graduate of Spring Garden High School and Jacksonville State University. He has been married to wife Lynne for 24 years and they have one daughter. The Holder family resides in Anniston.

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