Michelle Butt was named President and General Manager of WXII-TV in January 2015.

In 2018, she assumed the same responsibilities for WCWG/The Triad CW.

For the previous 11 years, Butt served as News Director for the Hearst-owned NBC affiliate, WBAL-TV and its news-talk radio station, WBAL-AM News Radio 1090, in Baltimore, Maryland.

During her tenure, the WBAL-TV newsroom earned many prestigious awards, including a Peabody, du Pont-Columbia, National Headliner, Emmy, Walter Cronkite, and Murrow.

Before coming to WBAL, Butt served as News Director of WXII, joining the station after a two-year term as assistant news director at WTAE-TV, Hearst's ABC affiliate in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Prior to joining Hearst, she served at another North Carolina station, WRAL-TV in Raleigh, as well as holding various newsroom positions at TV stations in the Norfolk, Virginia, market.

A native of southeastern Virginia, Butt is a graduate of Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia, and has served on the boards of nonprofit and community agencies as well as been an avid volunteer in every community she’s lived.

Some of those position include the Ronald McDonald House and Special Children's School of Winston-Salem, member, and Vice-Chair of the board for Special Olympics Maryland, and both treasurer and president of the Hereford High Parent-Teacher Organization.

Currently, Michelle serves on the Board of Goodwill Industries of Northwestern North Carolina, where she will be a part of the team determining the direction of the Mackenzie Bezos Scott gift to GWNWNC. She is also immediate past president and current board member for Second Harvest Foodbank of Northwest North Carolina, serves as Secretary for the board of ABC of NC, and is on the capital campaign committee for Senior Services of Forsyth County.

Michelle is married to Richard, a graduate of both Wake Forest University and NC State University, and is mother to two adult children, Jackson, and Peyton. When not at work, Michelle enjoys long walks and hikes with her rescue pups, reading, and being on the beaches of North Carolina.