Hanna Yates is the broadcast and digital host for the Carolina Hurricanes, working as on-air reporter and pregame and postgame host on the club’s own Hurricanes Hockey Network. Hanna Yates has covered the Hurricanes since the 2022-23 season and was the Hurricanes LIVE host and rinkside reporter on the Hurricanes broadcasts when Carolina won the Stanley Cup in June 2026. She grew up in the St. Louis area, where her professional career began in radio.
| Fast facts: Hanna Yates | |
|---|---|
| Known for | Hurricanes rinkside reporter and pregame and postgame host |
| Current role | Broadcast and digital host, Hurricanes Hockey Network (2026-27) |
| Employer | Carolina Hurricanes |
| Hometown | St. Louis area |
| Education | University of Missouri, broadcast journalism |
| Previous roles | KSDK sports anchor and reporter; 590 The Fan co-host; St. Louis Blues in-arena host |
| Hockey connection | Covered the Hurricanes’ 2026 Stanley Cup season |
What does Hanna Yates do for the Carolina Hurricanes?
Hanna Yates is the on-air reporter and pregame and postgame host for the Hurricanes Hockey Network, and she also works on the team’s content and social media. The club named her to the role in the Hurricanes’ network announcement on 1 September 2026, when it named its new in-house network. The 2026-27 season is her fifth broadcasting Hurricanes hockey and her first working directly for the organization.
Her first four seasons were on the regional sports network that carried the games, Bally Sports South and then FanDuel Sports Network South, where she hosted Hurricanes LIVE and reported rinkside. The last of them ended with Carolina beating Vegas 4-2 in the Stanley Cup Final, the franchise’s first title since 2006. Analyst Shane Willis partners her on pregame, intermission and postgame content, and Mike Maniscalco and Tripp Tracy call the games. The channels and streams for every Hurricanes game are in our guide to how to watch the Carolina Hurricanes.
What did Hanna Yates do before the Hurricanes?
Hanna Yates started in television at Missouri, covering news and high school football and anchoring sports on KOMU-TV, the university’s NBC affiliate. After college she co-hosted the afternoon show The Hard Line on KFNS 590 The Fan with T.J. Moe and former NHL enforcer Cam Janssen, later The Cam Janssen Show. The St. Louis Blues liked the show enough to add her as an in-arena intermission host. Janssen and Paul Bissonnette even dropped the gloves at an NHL alumni game in St. Louis in 2020.
In October 2019 she joined KSDK, the St. Louis NBC station, as a sports anchor and reporter covering the Blues and Cardinals. Bally Sports South hired her from KSDK in September 2022, replacing Abby Labar on the Hurricanes broadcasts.
Did Hanna Yates cover the Atlanta Braves?
Yes. Hanna Yates was one of three field reporters rotating on Bally Sports’ Atlanta Braves broadcasts in the 2024 MLB season, with Wiley Ballard and Ashley ShahAhmadi, alongside her Hurricanes job.
Where is Hanna Yates from?
Hanna Yates grew up in the St. Louis area around the Blues, with a passion for sports, and played soccer competitively. Yates studied at the University of Missouri, graduating in broadcast television journalism with an emphasis in sports and a minor in business, according to the Hurricanes. She moved to North Carolina in 2022 for the Hurricanes broadcasts.
How did Hanna Yates end up in Carolina?
Years before she joined the Hurricanes broadcasts, Hanna Yates was visiting a family friend with her father, not long after graduating from college. The friend, who sat on the PNC Arena board, asked the Hurricanes whether someone would give her advice, and Don Waddell, then the Hurricanes’ president, showed her around. “Don Waddell volunteered to do it. He gave me a tour of the arena, then we sat in the stands on our own after practice,” she said in a Hurricanes mailbag in October 2022.
Roughly a decade passed between that tour, which Yates placed “about six years” before she joined the Hurricanes broadcasts in 2022, and her first season as a Hurricanes employee in 2026-27.
Does Hanna Yates have a Wikipedia page?
No. Hanna Yates does not have a Wikipedia article. The fullest official record of her career is the Hurricanes’ broadcast announcements from 2022 onward and the club’s broadcaster biographies.
Is Hanna Yates married?
There is no publicly confirmed information about Hanna Yates’s relationship status. Hanna Yates keeps her personal life private.
