Former 10TV sports anchor Dave Holmes is joining ABC 6 as its sports director, the station announced Thursday night.
“At this stage of my career, the most important things to me are culture and creative freedom. I’m so excited to join a station that excels at both,” Holmes wrote in a post on X, the social media site formerly known as Twitter.
Holmes will be replacing former sports director Clay Hall, who retired from the station in February. In his new role, Holmes will “help quarterback” “The Football Fever,” a pregame and postgame show for Ohio State Football games, according to WSYX (ABC 6).
Holmes left his sports anchor position at 10TV on April 12 after nine years with the station.
“In 2015, the first time I walked through the doors here at 10TV, on the way into the building I texted a friend of mine and said ‘Today is the first day of the last job I’ll ever have.’ I meant every word of it. It was always my full intention to retire here at 10TV, that was the plan. But over the past few years I’ve learned life is not meant to be planned, it’s meant to be lived,” Holmes said in a goodbye segment he posted on social media.
Holmes got his start in sports broadcasting as a student at Kent State University when he won reality show “ESPN Dream Job”, landing him a one-year contract with ESPN and making him the youngest anchor in the history of national television, according to his bio on ABC 6’s website.
He has also received 26 regional Emmy awards.

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