Belinda Post

Belinda Post co-anchors the 9 and 10 AM news daily in SW Florida.  She is WINK News' traffic anchor in the afternoon, and she's always looking for a good story.

For three years prior she was the lifestyle anchor for “Better Kansas City” and the traffic anchor in Kansas City.  Her favorite interviews from that time were with Rob Riggle & Garth Brooks. During this time Post was also a sports reporter for the Missouri Mavericks & the Kansas City Phantoms.  She also has freelanced for Sports Radio 810, the number one sports radio station in Kansas City.

In 2018 Post won a regional Emmy Award for breaking news, covering a live, swift water rescue during catastrophic flooding in KC in 2017. Her reports were taken live on Weather.com for roughly three hours.

Previously Post was the 10 PM news anchor in Lexington, KY. She covered Kentucky Basketball runs, the Kentucky Derby & interviewed county clerks who refused to sign marriage licenses to same-sex couples. Her reports linking fighting fires to cancer spurred state & county lawmakers to legally categorize them as line of duty deaths.

Covering politics, Post also worked for ABC News during the 2012 Republican National Convention in Tampa, FL.

Post got her first TV job in KC on KCTV5’s sister station KSMO, where she was a sideline reporter on the High School Game of the Week. During this time she was also a freelance reporter at WIBW-TV.

Post is still heavily involved in Kansas City & routinely emcees Kansas City Fashion Week. She is a member of the Junior League, the Bacchus Foundation & is a part of Top Gun Young Professional Group. Growing up, she raised more than $90,000 for the Muscular Dystrophy Association in NE Kansas. She was appointed by former Governor Sam Brownback to the Kansas Volunteer Commission in 2011.

Post is a former Kansas City Chiefs Cheerleader. She danced professionally in two modern dance companies & also danced back up for Kid Rock at the Sprint Center. She was the K-State Wildcat Twirler during her undergrad career. Post is a Kappa Alpha Theta.

At Kansas State Post was named a Presidential Inaugural Scholar; she attended the Inauguration of former President Barack Obama in 2009.

Post graduated when she was 20, with Honors, from Kansas State University. Her Bachelor’s degree is in Theatre, Dance. She taught an undergraduate lab at the University of Florida, where she earned a Master’s Degree with Honors in Communications and Journalism. She reported, anchored & produced for the PBS affiliate, WUFT News. She reported at the NPR station in Gainesville.  She also anchored and produced a long form sports show called “Florida Lacrosse: Journey to the Top” for GatorVision. She earned two AP Awards: best feature writing & best sports feature.

She also enjoys dancing, yoga, Taco Tuesday, coffee and petting dogs.  She loves the Kansas City Chiefs and football - both college and the NFL.  She believes in freedom and supporting the Constitution.