Meet the Lakeshore News Tonight Team

Jodi Juhl Assistant News Director • Anchor

Jodi Juhl joined Lakeshore News Tonight as Assistant News Director and Anchor in 2008.  She brings vast broadcast experience to the news team, including tenure with WBBM-AM Chicago; WOWK-TV Huntington, West Virginia; CLTV News (WGN) Chicago; and WREX-TV Rockford, Illinois.

Juhl also serves as Marketing/Public Relations Consultant for the Glen Ellyn, Illinois chapter of Visiting Angels, the nation's leading franchisor of at-home assisted living services for seniors.

The Chicago native earned her Bachelor of Arts in Communications/Political Science from Loyola University of Chicago.

Lindsay Grome Assignment Manager• Reporter

Lindsay Grome joined the Lakeshore News team in September of 2006 as a general assignment reporter. She comes to Lakeshore Public Television after working at WOUB-TV and radio in Athens, Ohio. There she worked four years as a reporter, producer, weather forecaster and anchor as well as the mentor coordinator . While attending Ohio University, she also ventured into other areas of journalism as an intern with WCPO-TV in Cincinnati, Fiftyplus! Magazine and The Community Journal before deciding that broadcast journalism was more her cup of tea. She graduated from the E.W. Scripps School of Journalism in June of 2006 with a Bachelor of Science degree in Journalism and a Business minor.

While she joined the Lakeshore News team as a general assignment reporter, Lindsay’s roles have changed just as much as the station has throughout her time here. In addition to her general assignment responsibilities, you can now find her delivering weekly health reports as well as regularly reporting on news at the statehouse in Indianapolis. It is through this job she has come to discover one of her true passions, that of producing and reporting long-form special reports. Her work has won her numerous awards, including an Indiana Broadcaster’s Spectrum Award.

Lindsay is originally from Cincinnati and is still a Reds, Bengals, Skyline chili and Graeter’s ice cream fan at heart. She currently resides in Valparaiso and on her time off she enjoys working out, volunteering in the community, going into the city, traveling and spending time with family and friends. Lindsay is always excited to meet and hear from the community she serves. Feel free to email her at lgrome@lakeshoreptv.com with any interesting story ideas.

Matt Wintz Weather Director & Meteorologist

Matt Wintz joined Lakeshore News Tonight as an on-camera weathercaster in 2008. He prepares the day's report and a regional 5-day forecast as well as informs viewers of the impact of global weather events on local conditions.

In addition to his television reports, Matt also provides daily forecasts for The Lakeshore, 89.1 FM.

Wintz earned his Bachelor of Science in Atmospheric Science/Geography from The Ohio State University. Also during his collegiate years, Matt competed on the Birmingham-Southern College Division I Track and Cross Country Teams.

His experience includes several Broadcast Meteorology internships in Ohio and Pennsylvania. Matt also worked closely with one of Ohio's premiere meteorologists at The Ohio News Network.

A resident of Chicago, Matt is an avid runner, and his fuel of choice is coffee.

Krystal Morris Reporter/Weathercaster

The newest addition to the Lakeshore News Tonight team, Krystal joins us as a General Assignment Reporter and part-time Weather talent.  With six years of television news experience, Krystal says she is most excited about the opportunity to network and offer community service in Northwest Indiana. 

She started her career as an intern with WGN-TV and she was later hired as a Desk Assitant there.  She went on to WGEM in Quincy, where she learned to produce newscasts and shoot and edit her own stories.  She left WGEM for WMBD-TV in Peoria, where she was promoted to Weekend Anchor after three months.  She later went on to anchoring the morning and noon news broadcasts and forecasting weather at noon.

Now that Krystal is working in Northwest Indiana, she can continue working in the field she loves, while staying close to her family in Chicago.

Joe Arredondo Sports Director • Anchor

Joe Arredondo has served as Sports Director for Lakeshore Public Television since October 1990. He began his broadcast career at Crown Point, Indiana's WWJY-FM in 1987 as a news reporter, becoming the station's sports play-by-play voice a year later. Joe has also worked for local radio broadcasters WXRD-FM and AM 1230 WJOB.

In addition to Joe's duties as Sports Anchor of Lakeshore News Tonight, he produces and co-hosts Prep Football Report, Prep Football Scoreboard, and Prep Sports Report, which are some of Lakeshore PTV's longest running programs.

Joe was honored as the 1998 IHSAA District 1 Distinguished Media Service Award Recipient and has also received the News-Media Award presented by the Indiana Football Coaches Association. He is the play-by-play voice and producer of the High School Game of the Week, which garnered an Indiana Public Television Association Production Award.

Joe grew up in the region and graduated from Merrillville High School. He completed bachelor's degrees in Telecommunications and Political Science at Indiana University.

Tommy Williams Sports Anchor

Tommy Williams joined the Lakeshore News Tonight sports team in 2008, bringing vast broadcast experience, including tenure as Sports Talk host for WSCR 670 AM Chicago, Sports Talk Host and Play-by-Play Announcer for WJOB 1230 AM Hammond and as Public Address Announcer for both the Gary SouthShore RailCats and the Gary Steelheads.

In addition to Tommy's duties as Sports Anchor for Lakeshore News Tonight, he is a Sports Correspondent for the Post-Tribune.

Tommy is a graduate of Indiana University in Bloomington and currently resides in Lansing, Illionis.

Wayne Svetanoff Sports Commentator

Wayne is a veteran co-host of Prep Sports Report. He also works with Joe Arredondo on PFR Scoreboard. Prior to joining Lakeshore Public Television, he provided color commentary on football and basketball games for local radio station WJOB.

Wayne's day job of 31 years is as an English, Speech, and Theatre teacher for Lake Central High School. He is also the school's former head basketball coach.

Wayne went to Merrillville High School before heading to Indiana University where earned B.S. degrees in English and Speech & Theatre. He also holds an M.A. in Education from IU.