Rachel Tiede

Rachel Tiede is an Emmy-award winning anchor/meteorologist for WNYT in Albany, New York. She anchors NewsChannel 13 Live at 5, NewsChannel 13 Live at 5:30, NewsChannel 13 Live at 9, and NewsChannel 13 Live at 11 weeknights. She also forecasts the weather for NewsChannel 13 Live at 9 weeknights. She earned an Emmy nomination for a newscast covering a local bridge explosion, where she both anchored, and did the forecast – tailoring it to the benefit of the emergency crews responding to the disaster and dealing with winter temperatures, and the people living nearby who were smelling the smoke.

Previously, Rachel anchored and reported for FOX17 in Nashville, Tennessee — working both on the nightside newscasts, and the 5-hour morning newscasts (10 live shots per morning). She covered several major stories, including anchoring four hours wall-to-wall, unscripted, after the Christmas Day RV explosion. After anchoring, she hit the field for live shot after live shot over the next 36 hours, earning an Emmy Award for her work. Rachel also covered NASCAR’s return to Middle Tennessee for the first time in almost 40 years, and reported from the field for multi-day, wall-to-wall coverage of the deadliest tornado Nashville’s seen in decades — earning her an Emmy nomination.

Formerly, she was an anchor/MMJ/producer at NewsWatch 12 in Medford, Oregon — acting as the main anchor for the station’s 4 p.m. broadcast and the main fill-in anchor for all other broadcasts. While in Oregon, Rachel reported on, and/or produced and anchored breaking news broadcasts covering several devastating wildfires, including the Camp Fire in Paradise, California, Chetco Bar Fire, Klamathon Fire, and Delta Fire. She traveled down to Paradise after the Camp Fire, and spent several days reporting live on the devastation, solo as an MMJ.

During her time in Nashville – peak pandemic – she decided to go back to school to pursue meteorology. In August 2023, Rachel graduated from Mississippi State University with a Bachelor of Science in broadcast and operational meteorology. This complements her Bachelor of Arts in journalism from Texas Christian University, which she earned in 2017. She graduated magna cum laude and with honors from the Bob Schieffer College of Communication. She minored in kinesiology, was part of the John V. Roach Honors College, and graduated as a Leadership Scholar.