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Name: Susan Nicholas
Title: Anchor/Reporter
Broadcast Times: Saturday 6am, Sunday 6 & 11pm
Email Address: susan.nicholas@wsaz.com
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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 a graduate of the W. Page Pitt School of Journalism and Mass Communication at Marshall University. In her spare time she helps organizes fund raisers for the J-school.
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 spent four years covering mine disasters, strikes, murder trials and elections. 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 currently preparing to be an extra in the, “We are Marshall,” movie being filmed in Huntington starring Matthew McConaughey.
This past year Susan wrote a children’s book called, “Are You a Good Stranger?” She wrote the book based on the lessons she’s learned from covering stories on child abductions. Her book is sold in local bookstores and amazon.com. Although she’s having a lot of success with the book she says she is more concerned with helping children than selling books. She volunteers to visit schools all across the area to talk to kids about stranger danger.
Of all the things Susan has gotten to do during her 20 years in broadcasting she feels her greatest accomplishments are her two little girls. She tells everyone she works part-time so she can be a full-time mother…and the mom job is much harder. She says it is also the most rewarding. The last movie Susan saw at a theatre was, “The Shaggy Dog.” The last book she read was, “Cows That Type,” a popular request by her girls before bedtime. Finally, her favorite food would be the meatloaf she and her 5-year old daughter made together the other night.
You can contact Susan at: susan.nicholas@wsaz.com
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