Chris May to return to KATV in Little Rock as news anchor

During a staff meeting on Wednesday (May 18), KATV officials announced that former news anchor Chris May will return to his post on the top-rated Little Rock television station on Aug. 1.

May, a Little Rock native, began his broadcast career at KATV Ch. 7, a content partner with Talk Business & Politics. He began as a general assignment reporter before moving into the anchor roles for “Saturday Daybreak” and the main evening anchor for the station’s 5:00, 6:00 and 10:00 pm newscasts. He was in the central Arkansas market from 1993 to 1998.

After Little Rock, May landed at WHDH-TV in Boston from December 1998 to June 2006. He then was hired at KYW-TV in Philadelphia, where he worked from 2007 to 2015. Boston is the seventh largest TV market in the U.S. and Philadelphia is the fourth largest.

May is a six-time Emmy award winning journalist and was lead anchor for a national Edward R. Murrow Award winning broadcast team. He has interviewed Presidents Obama and Clinton, Mikhail Gorbachev, Hillary Clinton, John McCain, Mitt Romney, Condoleezza Rice, and Joe Biden.

He earned his bachelor’s in Journalism from Arizona State University in Tempe. May replaces Scott Inman, who left the station in February 2016.