Charles Denney has produced more than 1,300 video pieces in his 26 years at UTIA. He does TV news stories for stations across Tennessee and several nationally syndicated programs, and has more than 3 million hits on YouTube. He also produces print articles, speeches and handles media requests. He’s won more than 30 national awards from the Association of Communications Excellence (ACE). A proud native son of Lebanon, Denney also worked in TV news and law enforcement media relations, and holds a master’s degree from UT Knoxville and an undergraduate degree from Western Kentucky University.

Away from work, his favorite thing to do is play golf. His all-time low score is 68, and he has three hole-in-ones, including one in the 110-degree heat of the Arizona desert. He’s acted in more than 50 crime re-creation TV shows and about a dozen local commercials and theater productions. Other hobbies include hiking, reading, and travel. Denney has an undying love for the Tennessee Vols, Tennessee Titans, Nashville Predators, and St. Louis Cardinals. He is proud of wife Jennifer, a nurse at Fort Sanders Regional Medical Center -- and his children—Sam, a 2016 food science graduate and Inspector with the Tennessee Department of Agriculture, and Meredith, a 2019 arts and sciences graduate, currently working on a PhD in Public Health at Johns Hopkins University.