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KWTV-9's Gary England Gets A Big Promotion

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Joseph_Gallant

Since there is no specific TV board for Oklahoma City or Oklahoma, I'm going to post this thread here.

Longtime KWTV-9 meteorologist Gary England, considered by many to be one of the great TV weathercasters in that part of the world, has been given a major promotion by KWTV parent company Griffin Communications.

He will now work in Corporate as Vice President working on "severe storm mitigation, technology development, and audience relations" for Griffin Communications.

But to take the job, England will give up his daily weather forecasting job, but will still appear on the station from time-to-time to do features on long-term weather trends.

TV Spy.com report: http://www.mediabistro.com/tvspy/kw...rporate-role-at-gfirrin-communications_b98493 .

(Personally, I think you may still see him on-air during severe weather events. Having seen live KWTV's coverage of the tornado outbreak in Moore, Oklahoma earlier this year via their website, I can tell you that he did a superb job)
 
I think he is looking to not have to put up with the daily grind of doing the 6 and 10 news. Gary has been unique around that company for years in that he is sort of a partner with Griffin on weather technology opposed to an average check-drawer that usually fills a chief meteorologist position. In a way, this is just a public affirmation of that relationship he has quietly had for years with the company. I certainly wouldn't look for him to be totally out of the picture, but I do believe he will let David Payne run his department without too much interference. Gary is pretty classy....
 
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