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Roger Simmons
Roger Simmons

Birds, Words, Pics + TV

Smith Engineers Exit from Channel 9

Roger Simmons, March 31, 2006

WFTV morning meteorologist Joe Smith is getting out of the weather biz … and the TV biz, too. According to NewsBlues.com, Smith has decided to enter the graduate engineering program at Cal-Berkeley this fall.

After graduating from the FSU meteorology program, he started out at Tallahassee’s ABC affiliate before jumping up to Channel 9 in May 2003.

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