Jamey Tucker loves new gadgets and technology. Smartphones, drones, virtual reality, appliances, TVs, sound systems, smart home devices, and apps. If it’s tech, he’s all over it.
Jamey has been a TV news anchor and reporter since 1988 and worked with some very talented and dedicated journalists at these stations:
- WJSU-TV Birmingham, AL
- WHNT-TV Huntsville, AL
- WREG-TV Memphis, TN
- WKRN-TV Nashville, TN
In 2011 while reporting for WKRN, the ABC TV station in Nashville, Jamey launched “What the Tech?” to provide consumer technology stories important to viewers.
15 years later he’s tied into the tech community and in touch with most of the major players in the consumer technology industry. He spends his time reading about tech, watching keynotes, trying out new gadgets and devices, and finding shortcuts and tech hacks that aren’t found in any directions or manuals.
Now, for the long version of my career:
In 1988 Jamey got his first job in television, anchoring sports for a local cable newscast that broadcast once a week. He did play-by-play for college basketball games and sideline reporting for televised Carson Newman football games. The week before college graduation Jamey got the job of anchoring the national newscast airing on the religious cable-TV channel The Acts Network.
A couple of years later Jamey took a job as the evening news anchor for the NBC affiliate in Florence, Alabama.
His next few stops were in Anniston, Alabama at WJSU-TV. Then it was on to WHNT-TV in Huntsville, Alabama where he anchored first the morning, then the 10 pm weekday newscasts. In 1997 he left for WREG-TV in Memphis as a weekend anchor. In 2006 he headed to WKRN-TV in Nashville to be a video journalist covering the religion beat.
The idea for What the Tech? came after a slow news day in Nashville. Every story fell through and the producers finally said, ‘just go find something for the 4:30 newscast’. It happened to be the day Verizon released its first iPhone. Jamey got his hands on one and compared it to AT&T’s iPhone. The next day his email inbox was filled with emails from viewers asking questions about the story and the phones. That’s when he realized that news stories about tech are interesting to people of all ages, no matter where they live.
A few months later, “What the Tech?” went on the air at WKRN, WAAY in Huntsville, Alabama, and a few months after that, WPSD in Paducah, Kentucky.
Jamey left WKRN in 2015 to provide “What the Tech?” news stories across the country
It is on the air now on the following stations:
- KHNL-TV Honolulu, HI
- KOB-TV Albuquerque, NM
- WCCB-TV Charlotte, NC
- WHNS-TV Greenville, SC
- WBRC-TV Birmingham, AL
- WFMZ-TV Philadelphia, PA
- KOLD-TV Tucson, AZ
- WPSD-TV Paducah, KY
- KTBS-TV Shreveport, LA
- WAFF-TV Huntsville, AL
- WRCB-TV Chattanooga, TN
- WRDW-TV Augusta, GA
- KAAL-TV Rochester, MN
- WILX-TV Lansing, MI
- KTVN-TV Reno, NV
- WAKA-TV Montgomery, AL