Born and raised in Kansas City, Jared Koller is a sports anchor and producer who first joined KCTV5 in 2015.

Jared practically grew up at Arrowhead and Kauffman Stadium attending Chiefs and Royals games with his family and friends. After graduating from Staley High School, Jared attended the University of Missouri for a degree in Sports TV Journalism.

As someone who used to have his dad film him doing standup reports at the K as a kid, covering sports in his hometown is a dream come true for Jared. He’s attended or covered multiple Chiefs playoff games, Royals World Series games, Jayhawk Final Fours, MU vs. KU rivalry games and more. Jared can’t wait for what the next decade of sports in Kansas City will hold.

Jared’s also worked as a sports anchor in Lincoln, NE and Columbia, MO, where he extensively covered the Huskers, Tigers, Big Ten and SEC.

A Lenexa native who grew up watching channel 5, Marleah has been with KCTV5 since the summer of 2022.

She joins the sports team from WIBW, the CBS affiliate in Topeka, where she served as sports director. Prior to that, Marleah played Division I basketball at the University of Wyoming.

A four-time Academic All-Mountain West team member, her passion for equity in sports led her to write an award-winning master’s thesis on Title IX in her final year of NCAA eligibility. She’d use that framework to create a year-long weekly feature series at WIBW highlighting the pioneers who came before her, titled “IX at 50: The Trailblazers of Women’s Sports in Kansas.”

Outside of KCTV5, you can listen to Marleah’s Chiefs coverage on 101 The FOX, 94.9 KCMO and 95.7 The Vibe. She’s a host for KC Sports Network and leads their storytelling channel.

In her free time, Marleah enjoys yoga, reading, and spending time with her family, friends and cat, Dolly.

Neal Jones has been covering Kansas City area sports since September 1993, but his knowledge of the Chiefs, Royals, Tigers, Jayhawks and Wildcats goes back to his early years.

“I grew up in Oklahoma, so we got the Chiefs and Royals games on TV,” he said, “ And growing up in the Big 8 meant that I followed the KC area colleges closely. “It was a real thrill to get to cover Norm Stewart, Roy Williams and Bill Snyder,” Jones said, “And getting a chance to cover this great Chiefs teams of the 1990s and early 2000s was an opportunity of a lifetime.”

Jones is married to a KC area native, and has a son at Mizzou and a daughter at KU although she almost chose KSU). He attended the University of Oklahoma and the University of Tulsa.

His hobbies include golf and more golf.

Scott Reiss is an Emmy Award-winning broadcaster who comes to KCTV from Northern California, where spent a decade as the play-by-play voice of Stanford football and basketball. While living in the Bay Area, Scott also worked at Comcast SportsNet, where he hosted pregame and postgame shows for the San Francisco Giants, Oakland A's, Golden State Warriors, and San Jose Sharks, as well as KTVU, where he was a sports anchor/reporter.

Scott was an anchor at ESPN from 2000-2008, where he hosted shows including SportsCenter, Baseball Tonight, College Football Live, and NFL Live. Before joining ESPN, he spent time on both coasts, first at WUTR-TV in Utica, New York and then as sports director at KCOY-TV in Santa Maria, California.

Scott is the author of the Amazon best-seller, Where They Were Then: Sportscasters, which features first-person stories from nationally-renowned sports broadcasters about their experiences breaking into the industry.