Sydney Gray joined KXAN Austin in January 2026 as the station’s weekend morning anchor and reporter, marking a return to Texas television.
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Before arriving in Austin, Gray spent three and a half years at WMC Action News 5 in Memphis, Tennessee, where she anchored weekend mornings.
Gray previously worked in Texas as the morning anchor at NBC 23 KVEO in the Rio Grande Valley. She joined the station in August 2020 to help launch a brand-new morning newscast and remained there for two years.
Prior to her move to South Texas, Gray worked at KMTV 3 in Omaha, Nebraska, as a multimedia journalist and fill-in anchor.
She began her television career at Gray Television in Ada, Oklahoma, serving as a reporter and multimedia journalist before gaining additional experience as an intern at KTUL Channel 8 in Tulsa.
Gray is a graduate of Oklahoma State University, where she earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in Sports Media in 2016.
