WTKR New Additions – Headshots
We have. for a few years, provided headshots for WTKR Channel 3’s news staff. In the last month, three new, young journalists have joined Channel 3.
An award-winning journalist and passionate digital storyteller, Zak Dahlheimer is excited to be in Hampton Roads. You can catch Zak anchoring weekend evenings for WTKR and WGNT, and reporting during the week.
Before moving to Virginia in March 2020, Zak worked as a reporter for WNCN in Raleigh, North Carolina. While in the Triangle, Zak reported on stories all around the state, including Hurricanes Florence and Dorian and the 2020 primary election. He also reported on assignment in Virginia Beach following the 2019 mass shooting at the city’s municipal center, and in the Florida Panhandle covering the aftermath of Hurricane Michael.
Zak also worked as an anchor and investigative reporter at KESQ-TV and CBS Local 2 in Palm Springs, California. While in the Coachella Valley, Zak reported on wildfires, earthquakes, high-profile court cases, including the Pinyon Pines triple murder trial and Turpin child abuse case, the 2016 deadly Palm Springs tour bus crash, the 2016 and 2018 elections and California legalizing recreational marijuana use.
Before moving out west, he spent time in his home state of Florida working as a reporter and fill-in anchor for WJHG-TV and WECP-TV, the NBC and CBS affiliates in Panama City Beach.
Zak graduated Magna Cum Laude with a Bachelor of Science degree in Telecommunication and an Outside Concentration in Political Science from the University of Florida. While at UF, he anchored and reported for WUFT News, the PBS and NPR stations serving North Central Florida.
Zak has earned a regional Emmy nomination, and numerous awards from the Radio Television Digital News Association of the Carolinas (RTDNAC), Florida Associated Press Broadcasters Association and National Broadcasting Society.
Outside the newsroom, his other passions include playing guitar, riding motorcycles, traveling and cheering on the Florida Gators!
Antoinette “Annie” DelBel is a Western New York native, born and raised in Buffalo. Before joining the News 3 team in April 2020, Antoinette worked as a multimedia journalist at 13WHAM in Rochester, New York.
Prior to making the decision to jump back into television news in 2018, Antoinette served as a communications director for a New York State senator. For three years, she learned the ins and outs of the legislative process and worked on highlighting several complex and controversial issues, including gun laws, immigration issues and disparities in education, health care and infrastructure funding.
She began her broadcast career in 2011 as a Reporter/MMJ for Spectrum News in Buffalo (formerly Time Warner Cable News). An intrepid reporter, Antoinette covered Buffalo’s historic 2014 November snowstorm “Snowvember,” and several stories on Daredevil Nik Wallenda. For two years, she singlehandedly reported news across Niagara County out of the Niagara Falls newsroom.
Antoinette holds a master’s degree in Communications/TV Broadcasting from New York Institute of Technology. She earned her bachelor’s degree in English at Daemen College where she also served as a reporter and editor-in-chief at her college paper.
When she’s not working, Antoinette loves to travel, work out, read and spend time with family and her Yorkie Bella. An audacious personality, she also enjoys soaking up the sun at the beach and hitting the waves on her surfboard. Antoinette is thrilled to call Hampton Roads home.
KJ has a Bachelor of Science degree in Meteorology from Mississippi State University and a Bachelor of Arts degree in Broadcast Journalism from the University of South Carolina.
As a South Carolina native, KJ is well versed on east coast weather patterns. KJ previously worked as a meteorologist at WPDE in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, WAFF in Huntsville, Alabama and WOAY in Oak Hill, West Virginia. KJ comes to News 3 with tropical, severe and winter weather experience.
KJ is excited to be part the First Warning Storm Team and share his passion for weather on all fronts. Join KJ for the forecast and some clever puns by following his social media pages and on weekend mornings from 6 a.m. until 8 a.m.
