Susan anchors the Saturday 6am news and Sundays at 6 & 11pm for WSAZ. She is also a hometown girl. She grew up in Milton, WV and graduated from Milton High School in 1986. That was about the time she got her first job in radio. Her first day on the job was also her most embarrassing. When she got up to the microphone to introduce the next song, the chair she sat down in had wheels…and you guessed it, rolled out from under her. Thank goodness it was radio and not television!
Susan is married to former WSAZ reporter, Doug Korstanje. They met while covering a Huntington City Council meeting. How romantic! At the time Susan was a radio news reporter for WTCR and Doug was an intern at WOWK-TV. After college both ended up working at WYMT-TV in Hazard, Kentucky. They loved the people of Eastern Kentucky but wanted to come home. Doug and Susan got the opportunity to return to the mountain state in 1994 and have stayed here ever since.
Hollywood has called a few times for this couple. Both make brief cameo appearances in the “Mothman Prophesies,” a movie starring Richard Gere. Doug is also an extra in the, “We are Marshall,” movie starring Matthew McConaughey.
Susan is also an award winning writer. Her story, "The Suit," won first place at the West Virginia Writers Conference in 2008. She is currently working on several picture books and magazine articles for Highlights Magazine.
When Susan isn't writing stories or anchoring the news she is leading her daughter's Girl Scout troop.
Of all the things Susan has gotten to do during her 20 years in broadcasting she feels her greatest accomplishments are her two daughters. One is in fourth grade this year and the other just started kindergarten.
You can contact Susan at: susan.nicholas@wsaz.com
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