Our thoughts today are with our departing colleagues for their friendship, service and many important contributions to CBS.” Additional staffers, including some outside of the news department, were expected to be notified before the end of the day.ĭerek Dalton, president and general manager of CBS 2, declined to comment on the names or number of those affected, but released the following statement: “We are restructuring various operations at CBS as part our ongoing integration with Viacom, and to adapt to changes in our business, including those related to COVID-19. Others cut reportedly included morning news anchor Erin Kennedy, sports anchor Megan Mawicke, meteorologist Megan Glaros, and reporters Mike Puccinelli and Mai Martinez, according to insiders. He’s a huge animal lover and has two dogs that keep him pretty busy: a boxer named Bella and a chocolate Lab named Jackson.The legendary Pam Zekman, one of Chicago television’s premier investigative reporters, was among at least a dozen employees at WBBM-Channel 2 who lost their jobs today in sweeping companywide layoffs at CBS, sources said. He is also interested in fitness and politics. ![]() Over the last few years, he’s been to several games "Between the Hedges" and he loves living in an area where college football is king. In addition to weather, Brian is also a big sports fan - especially college sports. While in Orlando, he was fortunate enough to realize one of his career dreams and had the opportunity to fill in a few times on the weekend editions of "Good Morning America."Īfter Orlando, it was on to sister station KIRO for two years as weekday morning and noon meteorologist. While in college, he got his start in television at WYOU and WBRE in Wilkes-Barre/Scranton, Pennsylvania.Īfter school, it was on to Fort Myers, Florida, and WINK where he was weekday morning meteorologist for five years before serving as weekend evening meteorologist at WSB’s sister station WFTV in Orlando for two years. He considers himself truly fortunate to be one of those people who is doing what they wanted to do since they were a child.īrian’s interest in meteorology took him to Penn State University, where he earned both a bachelors and master’s degree. to watch the news - so it was only natural that he would combine two of his interests and make it a career! He also had an interest in television growing up - he was the rare 10-year-old kid who wanted to get up at 6 a.m. It’s a true passion of his and, whether at work or not, he finds himself always following it. on Channel 2 Action News This Morning!īrian grew up in southern New Jersey, near Philadelphia, and has been interested in weather all of his life. You can watch Brian (and Fred Blankenship, Linda Stouffer and Mark Arum) every week day from 4:30 to 7 a.m. “He’s going to do a great job of taking care of metro Atlanta and north Georgia,” Minton said. ![]() 27, 2019, Monahan officially took the baton from Minton as the meteorologist on Channel 2 Action News This Morning. ![]() In 2019, Monahan saw another major event firsthand: the retirement of Severe Weather Team 2 Meteorologist Karen Minton. In 2018, he again saw the impact a stalled tropical system can have as he covered Hurricane Florence in North Carolina. In 2017, he spent a week in Houston reporting on the historic flooding there as Harvey’s rains inundated that area. In 2016, it was the devastating tornado outbreak in late January that ripped across southwest Georgia and, in October, Hurricane Matthews' razor thin pass off the central Florida coast as a major hurricane. In 2015, Brian covered the historic winter storms in the Boston area that dropped several feet of snow in a couple of weeks crippling that region and having ripple effects all the way to metro Atlanta. His work with Channel 2 Action News has also taken him across the country reporting on storms that have left indelible marks on our memories. Over the last several years, he's been a part of Severe Weather Team 2's coverage of the biggest weather events to hit north Georgia.
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