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Brad Panovich Meteorologist

Work Experience

WCNC-NBC 6 (DMA 23)                                                                                                    Charlotte, NC

6/08-present

Chief Meteorologist

  • Anchor 4pm, 5pm, 5:30pm, 6pm and 11pm weathercasts Monday thru Friday.  Develop forecast for WCNC.com, Clear Channel Charlotte radio stations, and 24 hour digital cable weather channel.
  • Project Manager and Forecaster for NBC Weather Plus
  • Maintain and train other meteorologist on graphic weather systems.
  • Provide forecast for Charlotte Observer Newspaper weather page.
  • Perform severe weather cut-ins as well as cut-ins for other major events
  • Manage all weather related functions and procedures including supervising the morning and weekend meteorologists
  • Duties include creating all graphics, analyzing and forecasting daily weather, updating information, pictures, and videos to our website, and community service such as weather presentations to schools and businesses

10/05-6/08

Weekday Meteorologist

  • Anchor 4pm and 5pm weathercasts Monday thru Friday.  Develop forecast for WCNC.com, Clear Channel Charlotte radio stations, and 24 hour digital cable weather channel.
  • Project Manager and Forecaster for NBC Weather Plus
  • Maintain and train other meteorologist on graphic weather systems.
  • Provide forecast for Charlotte Observer Newspaper weather page.

1/03-10/05

Weekend Meteorologist

  • Anchor 7am, 8am, 9am, 6pm and 11pm weathercasts Saturday and Sundays.  Develop forecast for WCNC.com, Clear Channel Charlotte radio stations, and 24 hour digital cable weather channel.
  • Project Manager and Forecaster for NBC Weather Plus
  • Maintain and train other meteorologist on graphic weather systems.
  • Provide forecast for Charlotte Observer Newspaper weather page.

SkiNC.com/skisoutheast.com                                                                                            Banner Elk, NC

1/05-present

Meteorologist

  • Write forecast discussions and post daily forecast for ski resorts in the Southeast and Mid-Atlantic.

WWL-CBS 4 (DMA 41)                                                                                                       New Orleans, LA

8/99 – 12/02

Weekend Meteorologist

  • Anchored 12pm, 5pm, 6pm, and 10pm weathercasts Saturdays and Sundays.  Performed numerous live shots and performed weather reporting when not filling in for other meteorologist.  Helped continued success of Americas highest rated local news operation.
  • WWL-870 AM radio staff Meteorologist.  Provided on-air weather forecast for dominate news, talk and sports radio station in New Orleans, LA.

WFQX-FOX 33 (DMA 117  )                                                                                               Traverse City, MI

8/98-8/99

Chief Meteorologist

  • Anchored 10pm weathercasts Sunday through Friday.  Built and developed entire weather department from the ground up for FOX start-up.  Including weather center design, graphics, promotions and hiring weather team and formulated weather coverage.
  • Chief Meteorologist for WYBR-102.3 FM radio.  Provided daily weather forecasts for morning show.

WKEF-NBC 22 (DMA 55)                                                                                                   Dayton, OH

9/97-8/98

Morning Meteorologist

  • Anchored half-hour morning show weathercasts and weather cut-ins for the Today show Monday through Friday.  Served as weather reporter during severe weather when not filling in for other Meteorologists.

 

Education March 1997               The Ohio State University               Columbus, OH

Bachelor of Science Degree in Atmospheric Science

  • Minor in Communications
  • Captain of soccer team, Meteorology Club, Head of Soccer intramural department, forecaster for school newspaper.

December 2001                   Loyola University                 New Orleans, LA

Fellow of the Institute of Environmental communications

Granted a special invitation to the institute on environmental issues. Studied how those issues are communicated in the public domain.

Skills

  • Weather Central Super Genesis, WSI Weather Producer, Map Mapmaker & Show FX, Meteorologix Triton i7
  • Barons services C-Band Doppler Radar, FastTrac/NexTrac, VIPIR, Millennium, and Storm Warn.
  • AWS neighborhood weathernet
  • Unix, Windows XP, WXP, Internet, Lexis-Nexis, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Photoshop and Avid News
  • All National Weather Service data including forecast models, SKEW-T, Hodographs, ASOS, Metar, Difax charts, and Nexrad functions and algorithms.

Accreditations

  • American Meteorological Society Seal of Approval Holder
  • National Weather Association Member
  • Certificate of Training in Hydro-Meteorology from the National Weather Service
  • Les Lemons Doppler Radar training certificate
  • Baron Services Doppler Radar training conference

Professional Memberships

  • American Meteorological Society since 1996
  • National Weather Association since 1995

Interests and Activities

  • NWA Severe storms and Doppler radar conference 97,98,99
  • National Hurricane Conference 2000
  • National Weather Association Annual Meeting 2001-2010
  • Founder of The Annual Ohio Severe Weather Symposium
  • 312 school and civic appearances to date

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