It is a privilege to welcome news personality Bill Hurrelbrink to The Jake’s Take with Jacob Elyachar Podcast.  

Bill got his start as the Program Director for the Manhattan Broadcasting Company in Manhattan, Kansas from 2002 to 2006 before moving to Kansas City to become the Traffic Producer and Reporter at WDAF-TV FOX 4 News in 2008, where he worked there until 2013.   

He left television to work as the part-time Director of Communications for Mayor Mark Holland from 2013 to 2015 before joining iHeartMedia as a Traffic Reporter in July 2016. In 2018, Bill returned to Kansas City television, when he joined the KCTV CBS 5 family in March.   Since joining, Bill’s assignments included – Traffic Reporter, Lifestyle Show Reporter and Host, Election Reporter, Consumer Reporter, and Home Improvement Reporter.  This past May, KCTV5 announced that Bill would be a co-anchor on KCTV5’s morning newscast.   After he was assigned to the weather department, Bill went back to school and earned a forecasting certificate from Penn State in addition to his Bachelor of Science from Kansas State University. 

Bill still lives in hometown of Kansas City, Kansas with his wife Missy, two kids (Gavin and Ellison) and two Cavalier King Charles Spaniels (Scout and Sailor).  

On this episode of The Jake’s Take with Jacob Elyachar Podcast, Bill Hurrelbrink spoke about being versatile in the broadcast media industry and the most memorable stories that he covered throughout his career.