David Custer

David Luke Custer (born October 14, 1980) is an Emmy Award winning journalist and television anchor and reporter. He currently works as the anchor of the 6pm, 7pm and 11pm news with Shenikwa Stratford on Toledo's NBC affiliate channel 24 in Ohio.

David Custer was born in Flint, Michigan, and lived in Goodrich, Michigan for most of his childhood and young adult life. He attended Goodrich High School, home of the Martians, and the University of Michigan's Flint campus, graduating with a degree in Communications in 2001.

Custer’s journey into television started as an anchor and a reporter in Alpena, Michigan, in 2002. The station, WBKB, also known as the ‘Sunrise Side’, was the only news station in the area. After spending a couple years at WBKB, Custer moved to WSMH, a Fox affiliate, near his hometown in Flint, Michigan, as both a reporter and a producer. He quickly transitioned from a reporter to weekend anchor. The station merged with the CBS affiliate and he became the weekend morning anchor for WNEM-TV5 until the summer of 2007. Custer briefly left television in 2007 and early 2008 to pursue an executive position in the culinary field at Country Home Creations, an international manufacturer specializing in gourmet food products.

Custer is an Emmy-Award-Winning journalist having received four awards and five nominations for his reporting. His work has also been recognized several times by the Michigan Association of Broadcasters, the Telly Awards and winning the coveted ‘BEST’ Award from the Associated Press for a story about Diamond Jim – both his uncle and a retired professional boxer.

Custer joined the anchor desk of NBC24 in Toledo, Ohio, in June 2008. Custer co-anchors Monday through Friday on the station's three primetime broadcasts - 6pm, 7pm, and 11pm.