Ben started at WTAJ as the Morning News Producer in February 2005. He started doing live reports on WTAJ News this Morning about six months later. In 2007 he moved to dayside and started producing and reporting. Ben currently  reports during the evening and late night newscasts.

Ben married Cathy, an Altoona native, in June 2009. He grew up in the Cincinnati area. He attended college at Morehead State University in Kentucky where he graduated Summa Cum Laude in three and a half years. While there he worked in radio and television news and spent his summers interning at WLWT-TV and WKRC-TV in Cincinnati.

Ben views the news as a calling and believes in the responsibility of reporting the truth and keeping the public informed. Ben and Cathy currently live in Hollidaysburg. When Ben's not at work he enjoys reading and watching all genres of movies, his favorite is Casablanca. He loves to cook and enjoys trying new recipes, but enjoys coming up with his own even more.

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