These days I’m working the 5 and 11pm weeknights. Three days after graduation I had an interview for a part time position at WCAX-TV. They gave me the opportunity to learn how to shoot and edit as well, and after three semesters, I picked up my second bachelor’s degree. It took a little convincing, but I got the campus station to start letting me do evening weathercasts during the commercial breaks. I ended up going back to school at SUNY Plattsburgh, which didn’t have a meteorology program, but did have a very good broadcasting program. I was done with college, the loans were coming due, and there was no way in the world I would become a broadcast met with the resume tape or the level of experience that I had. I mailed at least 40 tapes up and down the east coast and needless to say, the phone never rang. It was dubbed and redubbed so many times that it was barely audible by the time I sent it out. I had a horrible VHS tape of mish-mashed weathercasts that I had done in my last month on campus. I graduated with my degree in meteorology, but was poorly prepared to get my first job at a local television station. I got involved in the broadcasting side by late junior year, but there wasn’t much of a campus television station, and there was very little oversight from faculty there. I started out at SUNY Oswego because of the lake effect snow, and the proximity to my hometown of Rochester, NY. Like most broadcast meteorologists I’ve always loved the weather. I believe that all students who go to college for broadcast meteorology should receive the experience and the resume tape they need to get a job out of college. I’m also an adjunct professor of broadcast meteorology at Lyndon State College. My name is Dan Dowling and I’m a broadcast meteorologist at WCAX-TV in Burlington, Vermont. Hi there! Thank you for taking the time to check out this website.
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