A graduate of West Liberty University, Van Applegate has been in the industry since 2006. He has worked as a photojournalist for various stations in the Mid-Atlantic region including WTRF, WHAG, WTKR, and presently at WJLA in Washington, DC. Applegate is a successful television photojournalist who gained a deluge of followers from covering hurricanes — like...
Where Are They Now?
Feb 12, 2013
West Liberty University is proud of it’s graduates, and WLU-TV is extremely proud of the many students who have completed our program and gone on to do great things in the broadcasting and design fields. Below is a list of some of our graduates who are doing great things in their respective fields and are visions of how successful graduates of our program...
Philip Stahl
Philip Stahl is a 2010 Dean’s List graduate of West Liberty University with a Bachelor of Science degree in Communications with a Broadcasting Concentration. In college, Philip took the initiative to co-create, produce and host the very first student-produced show at WLTV-14. The show “Inside West Liberty” ran for 65 episodes before Philip...
Lauren Weppler
Leaving the glorious West Virginia mountains behind her Lauren Weppler embarked to the Carolinas to bring her love of good story telling and welcoming personality to WMBF News Today on the weekends starting at 7:00 a.m. She joined the crew at WMBF News from WVNS-TV in Southern West Virginia where she anchored the evenings at 10 p.m. and 11 p.m. There she ...
Emily Unnone
Emily is a freshman broadcasting major