Ramsey Cook is a Southern kid from Conway who loves Jesus, his family, and helping people, and he’s found a way to do all three inside a newsroom he grew up watching. By day, Ramsey is the producer behind WBTW’s 4 p.m. newscast, the quiet engine that decides what viewers see, where anchors stand, which visuals roll, and how the whole hour breathes.
Ramsey builds shows the way locals live: lead with community, lead with safety, lead with what matters here. Crime and breaking developments get top billing; regional and national stories follow when they earn it. He aims for clean and compelling, “as close to Emmy-worthy as possible”, balancing on-camera time for co-anchors Annette Pegler and Trish Munn, moving them around the set so the show feels alive.
It’s craft and choreography under a deadline drumbeat. Some days a “steamroller” of breaking news hits at 3:30 for a 4:00 air time. That’s when the cake gets baked by a village: directors, editors, producers, anchors, all ingredients in a recipe that rises only if everybody does their part. What keeps it fun? The people. Feedback flows both ways. Ramsey asks for it, learns from it, and comes back stronger the next day. The result: an hour that flies.
After hours, he steps in front of the camera on WBTW+ with Red Carpet with Ramsey, a pop-culture hangout where entertainment becomes common ground. He curates colleagues from every department and generation, think Trish Williford on 80s touchstones or a morning anchor unpacking the Diddy saga, to show how stories on screens connect people in real life. Not fashion police, cultural tour guide. The segment is part escape, part bridge, and all conversation.
Rooted matters here. Ramsey is CMC-born, Conway-raised (UCLA: Upper Conway, Lower Aynor), Conway High ’17, Coastal Carolina ’21 (Chants up). Working where he worships and where he was raised, he feels the weight and wonder of informing neighbors, folks who stop for autographs and also ask, “What really happens behind the scenes?”
Ask him which fictional character fits, and he’ll say Scooby-Doo: curious, occasionally messy, but somehow the mystery still gets solved. It’s a humble metaphor for a producer-turned-host who believes missteps can be guided toward meaning, and that good storytelling, done with heart, can help a community feel seen, safe, and a little more connected.
