Broadcasting

Broadcasting

With a degree in broadcast journalism and a minor in meteorology there was a time when I thought I was going to spend my entire career in front of the camera forecasting the weather. While I will always have a strong passion for meteorology and an obsession with local news, I can always look back at these clips and remember the good ol’ days. My broadcasting experience includes 3 years as the Chief Meteorologist at WLIO-TV in Lima, Ohio and weekend weather at WHIO-TV in Dayton, Ohio. After I moved to Albuquerque and began working in marketing, I also filled in forecasting the weather on the weekends from April -August 2006 at KRQE-TV while they searched for a permanent person for the position.
 
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KRQE-TV Albuquerque Weather

Forecasting the weather in New Mexico can be very interesting.  In 2006, I was asked to fill in at the Albuquerque CBS station while they were short staffed.  I kept my job at the City of Albuquerque during the week and then worked at the tv station on the weekends between April and August. My first couple of weekends were very quiet, but as the Monsoon season approached, the skies opened up and it became one of the wettest years on record for New Mexico. In addition to making forecasts for the regular newscast, I was breaking into programming on a regular basis and warning people of the life-threatening flooding taking place. 


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WLIO-TV Lima Weather

I absolutely love forecasting winter storms!  And we certainly had our fair share of them in Ohio.  I worked at WLIO-TV from January 2000 - February 2003 as the Chief Meteorologist. I made an original forecast for the 6 p.m. and 11 p.m. newscasts each weeknight.  During the day I would often go to schools and teach children about the weather and share a few secrets of what it was like to work at the NBC station in Lima, Ohio. During the summer of 2001, I also forecasted the weather on the weekends at WHIO-TV, the CBS affiliate in Dayton, Ohio. In this position I also provided a forecast for the Dayton Daily News and recorded a forecast for several radio stations. 
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Live Reporting Clips

Being able to think on your feet and be comfortable on the air in a variety of situations is critical to being a good reporter. These clips are mainly from my weather reports and live shots, but I also covered several memorable stories while at WLIO in Lima.  I'll never forget the story of an 11-year old girl who saved two grown men from drowning when their boat capsized on a lake. She learned to use her coat as a flotation device when she was in Girl Scouts.  


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Reporting on Storm Damage

While I forecasted the weather for the 6 p.m. and 11 p.m. news, I also covered several stories a night between the two newscasts and prepared reports for the late news.  This is a story about a summer time storm that surprised the residents of Celina in Mercer County.  






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Windchill Story

On my very first day of forecasting the weather for television, the high temperature was -7 and the low was forecasted to be -25.  The 6 p.m. windchill temperature was -64 degrees. You'll probably never see a windchill temperature that low in your life because the National Weather Service has now revised the way they calculate this "feels like" temperature.  This is a story about changing that formula.  




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