Sydney Berger, who is well-versed in college sports, revealed on Instagram that she is ABC30’s new sports director.

Berger succeeds Stephen Hicks, who left the station to marry his longtime fiancé and pursue opportunities in Southern California.

Berger joined ABC30 in September 2025 as a sports reporter and anchor. Before that, she was a sports anchor in Spokane. While there, Berger covered Washington State, Gonzaga, Eastern Washington, and the University of Idaho athletics.

She graduated from the Edward R. Murrow College of Communication at Washington State. As a college student summer, she interned at ABC7/KABC in Los Angeles, where she covered the MLB All-Star Game and the Los Angeles Rams training camp.

When she isn’t working, Sydney says she likes to try new restaurants and coffee shops, go on runs and walks, and travel throughout California.

ABC Stations Call Early License Review ‘Unconstitutional’

You might have noticed ABC30 is airing a promo telling viewers that the Federal Communications Commission “is questioning our commitment to viewers by threatening to take us off the air. Use your voice and tell the FCC that Fresno deserves to keep its trusted local station KFSN.”

KFSN, which brands itself as ABC30, is hardly alone. Associated Press reports:

“Local TV stations owned by ABC across the United States blasted the Federal Communications Commission on (May 28) for launching an ‘unlawful, arbitrary and unconstitutional’ early review of their broadcast licenses as a dispute between the network and the Trump-controlled agency intensifies.”

In San Francisco, for example, ABC7/KGO is airing messages asking viewers to contact the FCC and back the station.

“No one supports your community like Channel 7. But the FCC questions that commitment,” the station says in its appeal.

Contact FCC by July 29

Viewers who want to weigh in on their local ABC affiliate are asked to contact regulators by July 29.

The licenses for ABC-owned-and-operated stations in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Houston, New York, Chicago, Philadelphia, Fresno, and Durham, North Carolina, were scheduled to come up for renewal between 2028 and 2031.

However, that timeline was accelerated amid Trump’s demands that ABC fire late-night host Jimmy Kimmel and the FCC review guest bookings for “The View.”