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Sue Wylie is a reporter, anchor and public affairs director for WLEX-TV in Lexington. She is a pioneer for women in television. She is a graduate of the Cincinnati Conservatory of Music. She began her broadcast career in the 1950s in Cincinnati with WLWT-TV, WCPO-TV and WKRC-TV, where she did dramatics and voices for “The Storm,” a Rod Sterling show. In 1954, she moved to Columbus, Ohio to work at WTVN-TV. In 1956, Wylie moved to Miami to work on new NBC affiliate, WCKT-TV, where she was a news reporter and midday news anchor. She was the first woman to be a hard news reporter in the Miami market. She moved to Lexington in 1968 and began working for WLEX-TV. She stayed with WLEX for 30 years. She created the show, “Your Government,” in 1972. Wylie interviewed governors, U.S. presidents and leading politicians throughout Kentucky and nation. She started radio talk show, “The Front Page with Sue Wylie,” in 1996 on WVLK. She earned several awards, including Associated Press awards for TV Series and Reporting for Excellence. Wylie also won the Kentucky Broadcasters Association award for Best News Series for her coverage of the Eddyville Penitentiary.

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