Keenan Smith, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

    

Keenan Smith

American meteorologist

Date of Birth: 31-Oct-1972

Place of Birth: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States

Profession: weather presenter, journalist

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio


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About Keenan Smith

  • Keenan Smith (born October 31, 1972, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) is an American television broadcaster who is a reporter/anchor for the morning and noon newscasts at WXYZ-TV in Detroit, Michigan.
  • Smith joined the network around September 2010 and served as the morning and noon meteorologist up until 2019.
  • WXYZ-TV meteorologist Kevin Jeanes succeeded him with this role in the same time frame .
  • Prior to his employment at WXYZ-TV, he was at WPTV in West Palm Beach, Florida from 2008 to 2010 and WGN-TV and CLTV in Chicago, Illinois before that.At WGN-TV, Smith's primary responsibility was to provide Tribune-owned cable station CLTV with evening weather reports during the work week.
  • As a WGN staff meteorologist, he also appeared on the noon and flagship 9:00 pm newscasts, filling in for chief meteorologist Tom Skilling. Before joining Channel 9 in 2003, Smith worked for CLTV for three years. Keenan's first on-air job in television was at WGAL in Lancaster, Pennsylvania.
  • Keenan also worked for NBC News in New York City, where he worked as an Assistant, and later, Associate Producer for Dateline NBC and NBC's New York News Bureau.
  • Keenan returned to on-camera work as a reporter/anchor at WZBN (W25AW) in Trenton, New Jersey, reporter and news and weather anchor at WEEK-TV in Peoria, Illinois, and later as a reporter/news anchor in Raleigh, North Carolina. A graduate of Franklin & Marshall College in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, he later earned a dual master's degree in Domestic Policy and Urban & Regional Planning from Princeton University in Princeton, New Jersey.
  • His meteorological course work is from College of DuPage, Pennsylvania State University, Portland State University, and Oklahoma State University. Smith is a full member of the American Meteorological Society and National Weather Association.
  • He holds the AMS Seal of Approval.
  • Smith was nominated for a Midwest Regional Emmy for Outstanding Achievement in Weathercasting and won an Illinois Associated Press Award for Investigative Reporting.

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