Longtime WKYT sports director Brian Milam said goodbye to the Lexington, Kentucky CBS affiliate and local TV after 27 years to work as communications and media director for the Kentucky High School Athletic Association.

“We are extremely pleased to add Brian to our communication team. His passion for high school athletics and athletes is well known and has been shown in his decades-long work with two Kentucky CBS affiliate stations,” KHSAA commissioner Julian Tackett said in a press release. “Brian has worked with many of our member schools, athletic directors, coaches, athletes, our staff and various media across the state.”

“It’s fitting that the Kentucky High School Athletic Association would also see the same qualities in Brian when they started looking for a new communications director,” said WKYT news director Robert Thomas.

Milam started his career at WYMT in Hazard in 1998 before he moved to sister station WKYT in Lexington in 2010. He’s been WKYT’s sports director and principal sports anchor since 2017.

“To say this opportunity to cast a brighter light and serve as support for others to also promote Kentucky high school athletics and athletes is a dream might not completely cover my excitement about joining the KHSAA staff’s communication team,” Milam said. “I’ve loved all my time at WYMT and WKYT, and the great folks at Gray Communications. Both places have allowed me to be the best version of a reporter and historian for athletics, which has led to this next step.”