Former fox 13 meteorologist
Kevin says “if I can’t be excited about giving the forecast, how can I expect people to be excited about watching it?” His weather forecasts on FOX 17 are typically high energy, informative, and educational.
#FORMER FOX 13 METEOROLOGIST SERIES#
The series ran for about four years from 2012 to 2016. He has filled-in on all shifts, produces graphics, conducts school presentations, and has produced upbeat, fun, and informative personal feature reports in his signature series West Michigan Stories. In March of 2018 he was promoted to the position of Chief Meteorologist!
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He then moved in to the Midday/4PM/5PM shift in 2015. Kevin functioned as the weekend meteorologist for FOX 17 for almost 15 years. He holds a Bachelor of Arts in Radio/TV/Film Communications from Wayne State University in Detroit. He received his meteorological certification in 2003 with highest honors and is just a few credits short of obtaining a master’s in Geosciences. Kevin started taking classes at the University of Wisconsin in Madison and through Mississippi State University in their broadcast meteorology program. He was hired as the morning weather anchor in Madison, Wisconsin in 1998 at WKOW-TV and a private forecasting firm called Weather Central. Kevin became the morning weather anchor and science reporter at WIFR-TV in Rockford, Illinois in 1996. He was a TV news reporter/anchor for about a year when the opportunity came up to fill-in for the weather department.
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He continued in radio news as an anchor/reporter for the next three years in northwest Ohio until taking his first television job in Clarksburg, West Virginia. Kevin started his broadcast career in 1993 at WCAR radio in Detroit as a board operator and part time news anchor. He is one of only a few in the state that have earned the Certified Broadcast Meteorologist (CBM) seal of approval from the American Meteorological Society. Meteorologist Kevin Craig joined FOX 17 in 2001.