Veteran sports anchor Dave Holmes hired at ABC 6 as sports director

“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.