Greg Screws Biography
Greg Screws co-anchors WHNT News 19 at 4:00 PM, 5:00 PM, and 10:00 PM. Greg Screws is a local product from Hartselle, Alabama. He graduated from the University of Alabama where he befriended a young man named Louis Gump. With 20 years of experience, he has a few stories to tell about Alabama, Auburn, Nascar, and other sports topics.
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Greg is very much in demand as a public speaker. His life experience of covering news, sports, personalities and overcoming life’s difficulties makes for great after dinner and public speaking. If there is a topic that requires an opinion, Greg will give you one. His favorite saying is “Right or wrong, I am rarely in doubt.”
Growing up in Hartselle, Greg had an unspectacular basketball career which led him to become a little league parent as his daughter played hoops. Despite having Greg give her tips on how to play basketball, Emily became a very good player who played on a team that finished second in the AAU nationals and won the state sports festival three years in a row.
After leaving Hartselle and realizing higher education was a challenge in addition to being a goal, Greg went to the University of Alabama. His “brush with greatness moment” at the University of Alabama was seeing Coach Paul “Bear” Bryant in a Shoney’s Restaurant. Greg majored in Communications at Alabama and worked at WCFT television before moving to WVTM in Birmingham. Greg’s stop in Birmingham television sparked his love of NASCAR and is also where he realized weathermen rarely pick up the check at lunch.
From there, Greg traveled to Richmond, Virginia for a stop at WRIC television. There Greg worked with Chip Tarkenton, the nephew of NFL great Fran Tarkenton. His friendship with Chip ended when Fran and Greg got into a heated discussion at Thanksgiving over the NFL Greats’ lack of success in Super Bowls. From Richmond, Greg moved back to Huntsville where he did sports and morning television for eight years. After 25 years in television, Greg had the itch to take a sabbatical and worked for 15 months with United Way of Madison County.
“Working at United Way of Madison County was a remarkably rewarding experience,” Crews said. “Thanks to the United Way of Madison County I realized how much I didn’t know about my own community, and am resolved to place community service as a priority in my life.” But it took the call from a friend to make Greg start thinking television news once again. “Denise Vickers is one of the best news directors in the country,” said Greg. “I was flattered when she called and wanted me immediately to be on WHNT’s team of sharp and focused managers who take their work and craft very seriously.”
Greg’s daughter Emily works at the University of Alabama. Once Greg asked if she wanted to work in television and Emily said: “you have to be kidding me.” Emily is very patient when her father calls her at least three times a day.
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“I was a huge movie fan and used to go to the Princess all the time,” Screws says. “Once, we were in there with a bunch of buddies raising all sorts of Cain and causing problems. They should have thrown us out much earlier than they did.
“But the problem was my folks had dropped me off and there was no place else to go around the Princess, so we have two hours to kill in a dead part of Decatur on a Sunday afternoon. We had to time it so when my dad pulled up, we blended in with the movie crowd coming out of the theatre.”
Screws think he might have been watching the 1972 Paul Newman western “The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean” that day at the Princess. The Hartselle native and longtime Huntsville broadcaster will return to the Decatur theatre on Jan. 11 to perform his one-man show “Local Media Icon” as a fundraiser for the Princess. Tickets for the 7:30 p.m. show are $20, and available via princesstheatre.org or by calling 256-340-1778.
“This is 30 years of stories and observations, literally,” Screws says. “I’ve usually got a big notebook in my car or bag, and if I hear something really good, I’ll go to the car and write it out and mold from there, later. (The show is) stories and its observations. Most of them are funny. Some of them are not. I like humor that’s got a barb or humor to it.”
On a recent sunny winter afternoon, Screws – who stands at least six-foot-five and has silvery hair – is wearing jeans, a burnt-orange long-sleeve tee, and dark wool coat as he answers the following questions in the Huntsville Times newsroom.
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