Beloved TV sports reporter and her husband found dead in their home

December 19, 2025 by Nadia

Impact beyond the newsroom

Christina Chambers’ impact extended far beyond the newsroom. She began her career covering local sports at WAKA in Montgomery and WLTZ NBC38 in Columbus, Georgia, before joining Comcast Sports Southeast in Atlanta, where she highlighted Auburn University and high school athletics.

She also freelanced for Raycom Media, covering state championship football and basketball games.

In 2015, she returned to her hometown to join WBRC in Birmingham, where she became a fixture on Sideline, the station’s Friday night high school football show.

Six years later, she shifted her focus to teaching, leading the broadcast journalism program at Thompson High School in Alabaster. Her students thrived under her guidance, earning top honors and recognition. Chambers herself was named Advisor of the Year in 2024 by the Alabama Scholastic Press Association.

Even after stepping away from full-time reporting, she returned as a freelancer during the 2025 football season and remained active in corporate communications at Blue Cross Blue Shield of Alabama.

Sophie Martin, the company’s Director of Corporate Communications, remembered her as a “cherished colleague whose warmth and loving personality touched everyone she worked with,” adding, “Christina was a source of joy and inspiration to our team and company – she will be greatly missed.”

Simone Eli, a sports anchor for PIX 11 in New York City who previously worked at several Alabama TV stations, shared her heartfelt tribute to Chambers on Facebook:

“Often, when something tragic happens, folks talk about how great a person’s impact was. But what Christina Chambers means to so many people in the state of Alabama — cannot even be described.