Sean Ash Joins WXYZ-TV / Channel 7 Weather Team

Sean Ash Joins WXYZ-TV / Channel 7 Weather Team

SOUTHFIELD, Mich., April 30 /PRNewswire/ -- Sean Ash has joined WXYZ-TV/Channel 7 Action News as the weekend meteorologist. The announcement was made by WXYZ-TV News Director Andrea Parquet-Taylor.

Ash joins Channel 7 from WISH-TV, the CBS affiliate in Indianapolis where he was the weekend evening meteorologist. Prior to that, he worked as a meteorologist at WTVC/ Channel 9, the ABC affiliate in Chattanooga. Ash has been certified by the National Weather Association since April of 2000.

During his career, Ash has covered a host of important weather stories including the aftermath of Hurricane Charley in 2004 and the deadly Evansville tornado that touched down in Indiana in November 2005. Ash has even experienced what it was like to encounter eleven tornadoes in one day as a part of his special Emmy-nominated report "Chasing Danger" which aired on WISH-TV in 2004.

Born and raised in Louisville, KY, Ash received his bachelor's degree in Atmospheric Sciences from Western Kentucky University in Bowling Green, where he also began his broadcasting career as a weather anchor at WKBO-TV.

WXYZ is owned by the Scripps Howard Broadcasting Company and its parent, The E. W. Scripps Company (NYSE:SSP) . Scripps is a diverse and growing media enterprise with interests in national cable networks, newspaper publishing, broadcast television stations, electronic commerce, interactive media, and licensing and syndication.

The company's portfolio of media properties includes: Scripps Networks, with such brands as HGTV, Food Network, DIY Network, Fine Living, Great American Country and HGTVPro; daily and community newspapers in 17 markets and the Washington-based Scripps Media Center, home to the Scripps Howard News Service; 10 broadcast TV stations, including six ABC-affiliated stations, three NBC affiliates and one independent; Scripps Interactive Media, including a leading online search and comparison shopping services, Shopzilla and uSwitch; and United Media, a leading worldwide licensing and syndication company that is the home of PEANUTS, DILBERT and approximately 150 other features and comics.

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Source: WXYZ-TV

CONTACT: Andrea Parquet-Taylor of WXYZ-TV, +1-248-827-9400

Web site: http://detnow.com/

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