Kalup Phillips
News Director
Bowling Green, KY
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Kalup Phillips joined the WBKO News team in July 2021 as News Director.
He spent ten years in Jonesboro, Ark., at KAIT - a fellow Gray Television station. At KAIT, he served in various roles, including Evening News Producer, Executive Producer, and most recently, Assistant News Director.
Kalup has helped lead news teams through severe weather, breaking news, elections, and other significant events. Much of that experience helped him lead the WBKO team through the coverage of the December 2021 tornadoes.
Kalup is a native of East Prairie, Missouri, and a graduate of Arkansas State University.
Updated: Apr. 15, 2023 at 11:35 AM CDT
|By Kalup Phillips
David Wolter will take the helm of the First Alert Weather Team.
Updated: Apr. 14, 2023 at 11:29 PM CDT
|By Kalup Phillips
This was the only gathering of the top candidates in Bowling Green before the primary election in May.
Updated: Feb. 5, 2023 at 9:18 AM CST
|By Kalup Phillips
“These are the training moments that become very useful in a real-world situation.”
Updated: Jan. 29, 2023 at 10:30 AM CST
|By Kalup Phillips
The juveniles barricaded themselves inside an office by blocking the door with a file cabinet.
Updated: Jan. 23, 2023 at 10:06 AM CST
|By Kalup Phillips
The closure will allow crews to repair multiple sinkholes within the right of way.
Updated: Dec. 25, 2022 at 5:24 PM CST
|By Kalup Phillips
According to the Bowling Green Fire Department, crews responded shortly after 2:30 p.m. to a fire on Ironwood Drive.
Updated: Dec. 25, 2022 at 4:37 PM CST
|By Kalup Phillips
The animals have been placed in emergency foster care.
Updated: Dec. 25, 2022 at 1:48 PM CST
|By Kalup Phillips
“The mission was accomplished,” Janel C. Doyle thanked everyone who donated toys, made a monetary donation, or volunteered their time this holiday season.
Updated: Dec. 24, 2022 at 9:00 AM CST
|By Kalup Phillips
Beshear holds winter storm briefing on Christmas Eve.
Updated: Dec. 23, 2022 at 11:27 AM CST
|By Kalup Phillips
BGMU, and other utilities, are conducting rotating outages across the service territory
Updated: Dec. 22, 2022 at 10:50 AM CST
|By Kalup Phillips
WBKO News wants to see your snow photos!
Updated: Dec. 13, 2022 at 11:46 AM CST
|By Kalup Phillips
Recovery in Bowling Green has taken a city-wide effort and for one city leader, that’s been the focus of his work for the last year.
Updated: Dec. 11, 2022 at 8:18 PM CST
|By WBKO News Staff, Gene Birk, Kelly Dean, Allie Hennard, Kalup Phillips, Kelly Austin and Will Whaley
One year later, WBKO News takes a look at the progress and recovery since a deadly and devastating night in western and south-central Kentucky.
Updated: Nov. 8, 2022 at 11:27 AM CST
|By Kalup Phillips
KSP said the preliminary investigation indicates that 62-year-old Dennis Wells, of Magnolia, was in a verbal altercation with 31-year-old William Kelleher, of Glasgow.
Updated: Nov. 8, 2022 at 11:08 AM CST
|By Kalup Phillips
The pair arrived around 10 a.m. at Cumberland Trace Elementary, one of the voting centers in Warren County.
Updated: Nov. 7, 2022 at 8:07 AM CST
|By WBKO News Staff and Kalup Phillips
This month, Hughes and Coleman have selected Carol Shaw. We first honored Shaw in April 2022.
Updated: Nov. 6, 2022 at 4:13 PM CST
|By Kalup Phillips and WBKO News Staff
According to the Bowling Green Police Department, officers responded to the 3000-block of Spring Hollow for a report of a shooting.
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