Jackie Hays Bickel was a popular television news anchor for 31 years, in two Kentucky cities and America’s fourth largest city. Native of Paris, Tenn., she began career at WPSD-TV, Paducah, while still a student at Murray State University in 1978. She anchored at WHAS-TV, Louisville, from 1980 to 1985; KYW-TV, Philadelphia from 1985 to 1988; and WAVE-TV, Louisville from 1988 to 2009. She covered countless major stories from the scene. She won an Emmy Award for a special on the tragedy of the 2009 Kentucky Derby and covered the MOVE - Philadelphia Police disaster. She was voted favorite news anchor by readers of Louisville magazine in “Best of Louisville” contest 16 times.