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Jay Alan & Molly Paige Afternoon News

Jay Alan has extensive radio broadcasting experience as host and anchor, spending five years as an award-winning radio host on News/Talk 1530 KFBK, Sacramento, CA where he received the Edward R. Murrow Award. Alan has also anchored on many News/Talk stations across the nation including: KSTE, Sacramento; KNEW, San Francisco and KTAR-FM Phoenix, AZ, and also has anchored programs which were nationally syndicated.

Co-Anchor Jay Alan of The Drive Home is not just experienced in radio broadcasting he also comes to ARNN with considerable experience anchoring on TV newscasts and was the lead TV news anchor on FOX 40 KTXL, Sacramento, CA; KPHO-TV, Phoenix, AZ and WSET-TV, Lynchburg/Roanoke, VA, where he also was Managing Editor. Alan co-anchored TV newscasts for many TV stations including: KTVB-TV, Boise, ID; KREM-TV, Spokane, WA. and WSAW-TV, Wausau, WI.

Alan’s most recent position was as the Director of Communications for the California Emergency Management Agency (Cal EMA) and Deputy Director for the Governor’s Office of Homeland Security (OHS) which he held since 2007. Prior to this, Alan was Director of Communications for the California Conservation Corps, and served on other California State Boards including the Homeland Security Advisory Board. He has taught Crisis Communications at the University of California where he taught the course to many of California’s elected officials.


Molly Paige served as News Director or News Anchor on great radio stations like KRLA in Los Angeles, and WAOI in San Antonio where she received the regional Radio Television News Directors Association Award as the Best Radio Newscast in the Southern United States.

She was an on air personality on CBS-FM in Los Angeles and has held a variety of positions including: News and Traffic Helicopter Reporter, Show Host, Producer, Writer, and Editor and served as Special Events Producer and News and Traffic Anchor on Citadel’s Los Angeles affiliate. Paige is active in promoting the broadcast industry donating her time to support the Broadcast Mentorship Program for Local Broadcast Journalism Students sponsored by the Museum of Television and Radio.

John McCaslin, ARNN’s Executive Vice President, News and Programming, says, "Our growing family of ARNN affiliates in the West and Southwest already know of Molly Paige's unparalleled reputation for fair and balanced news reporting. She's done it all in the world of broadcasting, gathering her many years of news experience with the top broadcast networks in the country. Now she brings her wealth of knowledge to the nation's capital, and we will all – politicians included – be better for it."