April 29, 2025 • 11 mins
Former WHAS11 anchor/reporter Tabnie Dozier is back in Louisville for Derby Week. She stopped by WHAS Radio to update her career. She's launched Tabnie Dozier Enterprises, a Black woman owned media company.
Tabnie's positive energy permeates her every life encounter. She offers fresh, bold, authentic brand support for corporate leaders, media members, and others in need of recalibrated messaging.
Tabnie's positive energy permeates her every life encounter. She offers fresh, bold, authentic brand support for corporate leaders, media members, and others in need of recalibrated messaging.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome in my longtime friend I haven't seen in a
long time, but lover Dearly Tabney Dozer, welcome back to Louisville.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
I'm home, Terry. Is so good to see you.
Speaker 1 (00:15):
Had We had a lot of fun in your they
were the early days of your reporter career. I was
already an old man, but you see how that works,
you man. But you know, you're just one of my
favorite people from all the years, of all the great
personalities I've worked with and talented people. You know, it's
(00:36):
just so good to see you. You haven't changed the lick.
I got your your your young girl reporter photo up
here on the screen right now, and it just I'm
so happy to see that you were coming back home
derby week so we could sit down and just see
each other. First off, the hug was great. It lasted
two minutes, literally.
Speaker 2 (00:54):
Just just held each other and swaying, y'all in true
Southern fashion.
Speaker 1 (00:58):
That's who we are.
Speaker 2 (00:59):
So goodness, Terry. The memories, the nostalgia's so alive. A
WKU graduate, I started my TV news career Evansville, Indiana,
and then moved to Louisville twenty fifteen to eighteen, so
you caught me just as I was getting my chops
and really, you know, cutting my teeth in this business
and having people like you and Doug Prophet, Melissa Swan,
(01:22):
Rachel Renee those seasons is what we will say. We
are yes this season'll y'all took us under your wings
but also allowed, you know, the freshness because technology was
starting to really take off social media, moving from you know,
onto the little memory cards and things like that. No
more tape to tape from the old days. And so
(01:42):
my heart is just so warmed being able to reconnect
with you.
Speaker 1 (01:46):
But I saw extreme talent in you too. As a journalist,
like you know, we see a lot of people come
through and you're one of the ones that came through
and we said, this kid's got it, got the right
stuff for this. And look at you now running in
your own business.
Speaker 2 (02:00):
I know, it's so wild. After my time in Louisville,
I got a main anchor gig in Reno, Nevada, and
I was there and won an Emmy. So I'm Emmy
award winning baby. But you all did you spoke life
into me in my early twenties to say, go after
the stories, go knock on the doors or try to
anchor ask you know, how else do you build your
(02:23):
repertoire without getting behind the desk. It was people like
you that pushed me forward to help Skyrockets.
Speaker 1 (02:29):
But you were good at digging up your own things too.
I mean, you had some exclusives here in Louisville.
Speaker 2 (02:33):
People were like, wow, oh my goodness, the Rick Patino
and the sex scandal. That was my first time receiving
national exposure to us, you know, being an ABC affiliate
there getting that exclusive with Katina Powell. I had a
source at the publisher of the book that was about
to launch, so I got excerpts before. And that was
(02:56):
also the first time I got death threats. You're low
because Cardinal fans no, do not play no.
Speaker 1 (03:03):
A lot of the fans of teams get crazy if
somebody is going after him. But you knew you got
to do your job.
Speaker 2 (03:08):
Yep, yep. And to help, they had me move my
car to park, you know where the gated park where
the station vehicles are. I was twenty five, twenty six
years old, working fifteen hours, you know, busting my butt.
That was a huge turning point in my career. Also
being promoted to weekend Morning anchor with Reed Yayden. Another
(03:29):
legendary broadcast here still around two though that was big
with Katina Powell and then being able to anchor Saturday
and Sunday Good Morning Kentuckyana show a little more personality
in the midst of that hard investigative reporting, a beautiful balance.
Speaker 1 (03:45):
Tatani Dozers back in loisvill was a reporter whas eleven
after she noticed she went out to Reno, Nevada, and
I watched a video on Instagram a couple of years
ago broke my heart. I love you and I was
so hurt for you that you felt like they just
didn't understand what you were doing, and they what they
(04:05):
say they were. We don't have the funds to make
you a part time person.
Speaker 2 (04:09):
Yeah, and you know I had a death here too,
in Louisville, but in Reno, Nevada one of my closest friends, STEVONN. Williams.
He passed away tragically in a car accident in twenty
twenty one, and I asked for bereavement and was denied,
and that spurred it from me, Terry. It made me
realize I'm just a face to you all. But having
(04:30):
to grieve as a public figure was the hardest thing
I've ever had to do. You know, as journalists, we
do cover people's pain. We do, you know, talk to
murder victims, families and things like that. But that's when
I started to get into therapy, and my therapist said, well,
grief kicked down your door. And it was totally different
than just having empathy for others. I was dealing with
(04:51):
my own. And let me tell you something. That station
gave me bereavement when Breonna Taylor was murdered because I'm
on the other side of the country crying about what's
going on in Louisville, my neck of the woods, and
that racial reckoning of summer of twenty twenty. And it's
not that I wanted to return to home, but my
family is here between Louisville, Lexington, Evansville, Indiana. I can't
(05:12):
have a conversation without a plane ticket. And so when
I was shut down, it let me know or the
writing is on the wall, this cannot be my forever.
Speaker 1 (05:22):
You got knocked down, but then you got up.
Speaker 2 (05:24):
Like Muhammad Ali baby, come out now with woods.
Speaker 1 (05:30):
Tell me about this company that you found out. I
know you've got a lot of other people that you're
helping direct as well, but you're kind of saving other
people who are in media who are in a pinch.
Speaker 2 (05:40):
Yes, Terry Tabni Doeser Enterprises, LLC, press release distribution, of course,
video production, written articles, public speaking, and media training. Crisis communication. Terry,
that was everything I was doing on TV every day anyway,
because breaking news is crisis communications in the PR world
right on camera mechanics as an anchor is media trading.
(06:04):
To teach others how to give quotes to journalists and
to be concise and to deliver their messages effectively, why
not just go out? You know, people didn't tune in
for all the horrific headlines that I was given. They
tuned in because they felt connected to me, No doubt.
That was my lesson from TV news. God was just
(06:24):
molding me and I was really just focusing on one
box of TV, and he said, Babe, you can storytell
all over the world. And so in twenty twenty two,
I hung up my studio MIC and launched Tabney Dozer Enterprises.
I had no desire of business ownership at all. It
was going to be Good Morning America or CNN. But
the best plans are the ones you don't come up
(06:46):
with when you just let life take control.
Speaker 1 (06:49):
I'm glad to see the joy in your face to
the video that I saw on Instagram. Was hurtful for
me to just see there look at my girls in pain.
But now that I see you in person, hug you
in person today, I know you're good.
Speaker 2 (07:03):
Yeah, oh, you're right, I feel a lot lighter. I mean,
the news has only gotten awful since COVID. Let's keep
it real. You know, it's harder to find those moments.
There's less staff cuts, as you know, to even cover
ribbon cuttings and charitable benefits. It's all about destruction and negativity.
And now that that's off my plate, terry clients only
(07:23):
hire me to tell good news and positive press. So
I smile every day. And so yes, we're helping clients
on both sides of the country, you know, because of
course as a journalist, we have connections and markets all
across the US and so here I am taking those
chops that you saw ten years ago and have graduated
(07:45):
from TV and I'm now helping in a multiple of
mediums too.
Speaker 1 (07:50):
We knew it when you walked in the door. Come on, now,
we could we could feel it. You just feel it
out of certain people that they've got it. You've got
this drive, You've got this vision, and then the ability
to take a shot and get back up. Yeah, so
you did that. I mean you get you know, like
you said that, those the Louisville fans that came after
you after the Katina Palell story, but you had to
(08:12):
do that. Those messages had to be delivered to the
public who could see the whole story.
Speaker 2 (08:16):
Yeah, Louisville shape. Louisville is where I became a true
adult and a true journalist, not just for the fun,
not just for the bad, but for all of the above.
And that's life too. I just hadn't been knocked down often.
That one hit with Katina Palell and this community that
loved me so much started turning on me, and then
(08:36):
my dms and mentions were filled with disrespect, you know.
And then moving across the country asking for support, for
mental health support and not getting it. Another punch to
the gut, and I just decided, Terry, no one was
ever going to tell me who I can grieve or
how long I could grieve them.
Speaker 1 (08:54):
Ever. Again, you're a great vision for black women as well.
Speaker 2 (08:58):
Yeah, and that is listen, Rob Roberts and Gwyn Eiffels
of the days they were that for me and so
to be able to have that representation on TV. But
then now go into this entrepreneurial space and encourage others.
What talents do you have within that there's something that
you should be doing with them.
Speaker 1 (09:17):
You've got a charm about you do. I can see
you taking a CEO from a company to try to
tell him, hey, you're not good at making presents. How
do you say that to some billionaire ceo?
Speaker 2 (09:29):
Yes, politely, I say, well, who's helping you with your marketing? Well?
What about your media training? Well? Then I pull up
something they've done terry and I let it speak for themselves.
And listen, some of the richest people are just awful
at public speaking. Taby does your enterprises can help you
with that?
Speaker 1 (09:49):
That's all it takes. You do have You've got a
southern charm too, which is different than the element of
charm in certain sectors. Yep, there's a sweetness to what
we do. We're sweet Tea.
Speaker 2 (09:59):
Well, it's never gonna leave me and your son. My
nickname is sweet Tea from Max. How funny is that
he calls me sweet tea, and I'm glad you said that,
because I never want this charm to And you know,
it was always hard enough being stoic doing serious news
or severe weather or scandals or whatever, and then dealing
with grief and mental illness and being on the other
(10:21):
side of the country from my loved ones with this
crazy thing called coronavirus when it was new. You know,
life is to be lived, and so to be able
to smile, to be able to share my authenticity even
more than I could on TV, is the greatest gift
that I didn't even know I needed.
Speaker 1 (10:38):
I'm so glad to see you.
Speaker 2 (10:39):
I'm so thankful for you. Thank you for this platform.
Thank you, you know, for the new audience members who
may not know me and can follow me, and the
old school folks who've been keeping up with me. Uh
Kentuckyana always has a special place in my heart. This
is my home. I'm Lexington native, right down the road
Louisville raised the adult tab me and it is just beautiful.
(11:00):
Now I'm just flying terry coast to coast. Baby. I
love this journey.
Speaker 1 (11:05):
I can feel it. So glad to have you back in.
Speaker 2 (11:07):
Thank you, Thank you, so much Happy Derby Week everybody.
Speaker 1 (11:10):
And they can find you online at Tabney Dozer Enterprises.
Speaker 2 (11:13):
Yes, so the website Tabney doozer dot com and then
Tabney does your enterprises on all social media platforms. Thank you.
Speaker 1 (11:21):
Back in a minute on news radio eight forty whas
Welcome in my longtime friend I haven't seen in a
long time, but lover Dearly Tabney Dozer, welcome back to Louisville.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
I'm home, Terry. Is so good to see you.
Speaker 1 (00:15):
Had We had a lot of fun in your they
were the early days of your reporter career. I was
already an old man, but you see how that works,
you man. But you know, you're just one of my
favorite people from all the years, of all the great
personalities I've worked with and talented people. You know, it's
(00:36):
just so good to see you. You haven't changed the lick.
I got your your your young girl reporter photo up
here on the screen right now, and it just I'm
so happy to see that you were coming back home
derby week so we could sit down and just see
each other. First off, the hug was great. It lasted
two minutes, literally.
Speaker 2 (00:54):
Just just held each other and swaying, y'all in true
Southern fashion.
Speaker 1 (00:58):
That's who we are.
Speaker 2 (00:59):
So goodness, Terry. The memories, the nostalgia's so alive. A
WKU graduate, I started my TV news career Evansville, Indiana,
and then moved to Louisville twenty fifteen to eighteen, so
you caught me just as I was getting my chops
and really, you know, cutting my teeth in this business
and having people like you and Doug Prophet, Melissa Swan,
(01:22):
Rachel Renee those seasons is what we will say. We
are yes this season'll y'all took us under your wings
but also allowed, you know, the freshness because technology was
starting to really take off social media, moving from you know,
onto the little memory cards and things like that. No
more tape to tape from the old days. And so
(01:42):
my heart is just so warmed being able to reconnect
with you.
Speaker 1 (01:46):
But I saw extreme talent in you too. As a journalist,
like you know, we see a lot of people come
through and you're one of the ones that came through
and we said, this kid's got it, got the right
stuff for this. And look at you now running in
your own business.
Speaker 2 (02:00):
I know, it's so wild. After my time in Louisville,
I got a main anchor gig in Reno, Nevada, and
I was there and won an Emmy. So I'm Emmy
award winning baby. But you all did you spoke life
into me in my early twenties to say, go after
the stories, go knock on the doors or try to
anchor ask you know, how else do you build your
(02:23):
repertoire without getting behind the desk. It was people like
you that pushed me forward to help Skyrockets.
Speaker 1 (02:29):
But you were good at digging up your own things too.
I mean, you had some exclusives here in Louisville.
Speaker 2 (02:33):
People were like, wow, oh my goodness, the Rick Patino
and the sex scandal. That was my first time receiving
national exposure to us, you know, being an ABC affiliate
there getting that exclusive with Katina Powell. I had a
source at the publisher of the book that was about
to launch, so I got excerpts before. And that was
(02:56):
also the first time I got death threats. You're low
because Cardinal fans no, do not play no.
Speaker 1 (03:03):
A lot of the fans of teams get crazy if
somebody is going after him. But you knew you got
to do your job.
Speaker 2 (03:08):
Yep, yep. And to help, they had me move my
car to park, you know where the gated park where
the station vehicles are. I was twenty five, twenty six
years old, working fifteen hours, you know, busting my butt.
That was a huge turning point in my career. Also
being promoted to weekend Morning anchor with Reed Yayden. Another
(03:29):
legendary broadcast here still around two though that was big
with Katina Powell and then being able to anchor Saturday
and Sunday Good Morning Kentuckyana show a little more personality
in the midst of that hard investigative reporting, a beautiful balance.
Speaker 1 (03:45):
Tatani Dozers back in loisvill was a reporter whas eleven
after she noticed she went out to Reno, Nevada, and
I watched a video on Instagram a couple of years
ago broke my heart. I love you and I was
so hurt for you that you felt like they just
didn't understand what you were doing, and they what they
(04:05):
say they were. We don't have the funds to make
you a part time person.
Speaker 2 (04:09):
Yeah, and you know I had a death here too,
in Louisville, but in Reno, Nevada one of my closest friends, STEVONN. Williams.
He passed away tragically in a car accident in twenty
twenty one, and I asked for bereavement and was denied,
and that spurred it from me, Terry. It made me
realize I'm just a face to you all. But having
(04:30):
to grieve as a public figure was the hardest thing
I've ever had to do. You know, as journalists, we
do cover people's pain. We do, you know, talk to
murder victims, families and things like that. But that's when
I started to get into therapy, and my therapist said, well,
grief kicked down your door. And it was totally different
than just having empathy for others. I was dealing with
(04:51):
my own. And let me tell you something. That station
gave me bereavement when Breonna Taylor was murdered because I'm
on the other side of the country crying about what's
going on in Louisville, my neck of the woods, and
that racial reckoning of summer of twenty twenty. And it's
not that I wanted to return to home, but my
family is here between Louisville, Lexington, Evansville, Indiana. I can't
(05:12):
have a conversation without a plane ticket. And so when
I was shut down, it let me know or the
writing is on the wall, this cannot be my forever.
Speaker 1 (05:22):
You got knocked down, but then you got up.
Speaker 2 (05:24):
Like Muhammad Ali baby, come out now with woods.
Speaker 1 (05:30):
Tell me about this company that you found out. I
know you've got a lot of other people that you're
helping direct as well, but you're kind of saving other
people who are in media who are in a pinch.
Speaker 2 (05:40):
Yes, Terry Tabni Doeser Enterprises, LLC, press release distribution, of course,
video production, written articles, public speaking, and media training. Crisis communication. Terry,
that was everything I was doing on TV every day anyway,
because breaking news is crisis communications in the PR world
right on camera mechanics as an anchor is media trading.
(06:04):
To teach others how to give quotes to journalists and
to be concise and to deliver their messages effectively, why
not just go out? You know, people didn't tune in
for all the horrific headlines that I was given. They
tuned in because they felt connected to me, No doubt.
That was my lesson from TV news. God was just
(06:24):
molding me and I was really just focusing on one
box of TV, and he said, Babe, you can storytell
all over the world. And so in twenty twenty two,
I hung up my studio MIC and launched Tabney Dozer Enterprises.
I had no desire of business ownership at all. It
was going to be Good Morning America or CNN. But
the best plans are the ones you don't come up
(06:46):
with when you just let life take control.
Speaker 1 (06:49):
I'm glad to see the joy in your face to
the video that I saw on Instagram. Was hurtful for
me to just see there look at my girls in pain.
But now that I see you in person, hug you
in person today, I know you're good.
Speaker 2 (07:03):
Yeah, oh, you're right, I feel a lot lighter. I mean,
the news has only gotten awful since COVID. Let's keep
it real. You know, it's harder to find those moments.
There's less staff cuts, as you know, to even cover
ribbon cuttings and charitable benefits. It's all about destruction and negativity.
And now that that's off my plate, terry clients only
(07:23):
hire me to tell good news and positive press. So
I smile every day. And so yes, we're helping clients
on both sides of the country, you know, because of
course as a journalist, we have connections and markets all
across the US and so here I am taking those
chops that you saw ten years ago and have graduated
(07:45):
from TV and I'm now helping in a multiple of
mediums too.
Speaker 1 (07:50):
We knew it when you walked in the door. Come on, now,
we could we could feel it. You just feel it
out of certain people that they've got it. You've got
this drive, You've got this vision, and then the ability
to take a shot and get back up. Yeah, so
you did that. I mean you get you know, like
you said that, those the Louisville fans that came after
you after the Katina Palell story, but you had to
(08:12):
do that. Those messages had to be delivered to the
public who could see the whole story.
Speaker 2 (08:16):
Yeah, Louisville shape. Louisville is where I became a true
adult and a true journalist, not just for the fun,
not just for the bad, but for all of the above.
And that's life too. I just hadn't been knocked down often.
That one hit with Katina Palell and this community that
loved me so much started turning on me, and then
(08:36):
my dms and mentions were filled with disrespect, you know.
And then moving across the country asking for support, for
mental health support and not getting it. Another punch to
the gut, and I just decided, Terry, no one was
ever going to tell me who I can grieve or
how long I could grieve them.
Speaker 1 (08:54):
Ever. Again, you're a great vision for black women as well.
Speaker 2 (08:58):
Yeah, and that is listen, Rob Roberts and Gwyn Eiffels
of the days they were that for me and so
to be able to have that representation on TV. But
then now go into this entrepreneurial space and encourage others.
What talents do you have within that there's something that
you should be doing with them.
Speaker 1 (09:17):
You've got a charm about you do. I can see
you taking a CEO from a company to try to
tell him, hey, you're not good at making presents. How
do you say that to some billionaire ceo?
Speaker 2 (09:29):
Yes, politely, I say, well, who's helping you with your marketing? Well?
What about your media training? Well? Then I pull up
something they've done terry and I let it speak for themselves.
And listen, some of the richest people are just awful
at public speaking. Taby does your enterprises can help you
with that?
Speaker 1 (09:49):
That's all it takes. You do have You've got a
southern charm too, which is different than the element of
charm in certain sectors. Yep, there's a sweetness to what
we do. We're sweet Tea.
Speaker 2 (09:59):
Well, it's never gonna leave me and your son. My
nickname is sweet Tea from Max. How funny is that
he calls me sweet tea, and I'm glad you said that,
because I never want this charm to And you know,
it was always hard enough being stoic doing serious news
or severe weather or scandals or whatever, and then dealing
with grief and mental illness and being on the other
(10:21):
side of the country from my loved ones with this
crazy thing called coronavirus when it was new. You know,
life is to be lived, and so to be able
to smile, to be able to share my authenticity even
more than I could on TV, is the greatest gift
that I didn't even know I needed.
Speaker 1 (10:38):
I'm so glad to see you.
Speaker 2 (10:39):
I'm so thankful for you. Thank you for this platform.
Thank you, you know, for the new audience members who
may not know me and can follow me, and the
old school folks who've been keeping up with me. Uh
Kentuckyana always has a special place in my heart. This
is my home. I'm Lexington native, right down the road
Louisville raised the adult tab me and it is just beautiful.
(11:00):
Now I'm just flying terry coast to coast. Baby. I
love this journey.
Speaker 1 (11:05):
I can feel it. So glad to have you back in.
Speaker 2 (11:07):
Thank you, Thank you, so much Happy Derby Week everybody.
Speaker 1 (11:10):
And they can find you online at Tabney Dozer Enterprises.
Speaker 2 (11:13):
Yes, so the website Tabney doozer dot com and then
Tabney does your enterprises on all social media platforms. Thank you.
Speaker 1 (11:21):
Back in a minute on news radio eight forty whas
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