#WEATHERBUG FORT SMITH AR TV#

#WEATHERBUG FORT SMITH AR TV#

The urge to gain experience in large market TV drew me to Kansas City, where I learned more about weather and television than I ever thought possible. It wasn’t long before our son Quentin was born and we had a family. It wasn’t a problem since we’d already been together a few years, and I was used to her running the show. We were both hired on at WLEX-TV in Lexington, Kentucky, where I was the morning meteorologist and she was my boss. She’s a fourth generation Texan, so we were married in Anderson, Texas. The station offered to pay my way through a university meteorological program, and that started me down the path. I didn’t know much about weather, but I loved geography and I knew every county, city and “one horse town” between Oklahoma City and Memphis. The weekend weather person had gone, and my boss asked me if I wanted to fill in. Once I got into TV at KFSM in Fort Smith, Arkansas, it only took a few months before the “weather bug” bit me. I then returned to Arkansas for that first job. I then moved to Arkansas in the early 80’s where I graduated from high school, received my degree in broadcast journalism at Southern Illinois University, studied with the BBC in Britain, and interned with a major cable news network in Washington D.C. I cut my teeth as an intern for Arkansas’s Second Congressional District long before I was tracking severe weather in that state.īorn in Grand Rapids, Michigan, I lived through the winter of ’78 and dug a tunnel out of my house through a record snowfall.

My first passion was for journalism and politics. Almost every meteorologist’s biography you read on any website starts out with, “I knew I wanted to be a meteorologist from the time I was a kid.”

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