Kontji Anthony

Action News 5 Anchor/Reporter

Kontji is an award-winning news broadcaster with more than a decade of combined experience anchoring, reporting, producing and writing for network news affiliates across America.

She anchors and reports for Memphis, Tennessee's top news station, WMC-TV NBC. During her time in Memphis, Kontji has performed live on CNN, aired reports on the Today Show, appears as a guest announcer on regional radio, and has conducted interviews for E! News Network.

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School administration shaves budget gap by 25 percent posted on Monday, May 13, 2013 - 4:55pm MEMPHIS, TN- (WMC-TV) - Shelby County School administrators have trimmed the budget gap by tens of millions of dollars. Back in February, suburban lawmakers were up in arms after learning the merged... read more...
Battle over school property transfer ensues posted on Monday, May 6, 2013 - 6:05pm SHELBY COUNTY, TN- (WMC-TV) - The Shelby County municipal schools battle will turn to the issue of school buildings this week. A school board committee will discuss who owns the current buildings in... read more...
Haslam signs municipal schools bills posted on Friday, April 26, 2013 - 12:44pm (WMC-TV) - Gov. Bill Haslam signed two bills into law Wednesday that lift the ban on municipal schools in the State of Tennessee. That gives Shelby County's six suburbs the green light to create... read more...
TN General Assembly to vote on lifting municipal school ban posted on Monday, April 15, 2013 - 12:35am (WMC-TV) - The two and a half year Memphis-Shelby County school merger battle hits a landmark Monday. That is when the Tennessee General Assembly votes whether or not to lift the ban on municipal... read more...
Municipal school districts bill passes Senate committee posted on Wednesday, March 27, 2013 - 4:38pm MEMPHIS, TN- (WMC-TV) - A Tennessee Senate committee passed a bill lifting the ban on municipal schools putting the Shelby County suburbs one step closer to forming their own school systems. But the... read more...
Lakeland man calls police on himself posted on Monday, March 4, 2013 - 1:04pm LAKELAND, TN- (WMC-TV) - A Lakeland man is facing a list of charges after inadvertently calling the police on himself. Neighbor Corin Pearson saw an odd scene near his Memphis home off Winding Path... read more...
School merger court negotiations fail posted on Friday, February 8, 2013 - 7:07pm SHELBY COUNTY, TN- (WMC-TV) - The school merger court negotiations between the Shelby County Commission and Shelby County suburban mayors failed. For months, the county commission was... read more...
Education leader wonders if Memphis, Shelby County merger will stick posted on Sunday, January 6, 2013 - 9:52pm One of Memphis' top education leaders wonders if a Memphis and Shelby County schools merger will stick. Memphis school union president Keith Williams questions if the November 2010 Memphis schools... read more...
Police officer arrested, charged with domestic assault posted on Sunday, January 6, 2013 - 12:33am (WMC-TV) - Memphis police officer Samuel Hearn has been arrested and charged with domestic assault. Some studies report domestic violence is two to four times more common in police... read more...