E-mail Keenan SmithMeteorologist
Born/Raised:Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Education:Franklin and Marshall College
Major: Public Policy
Princeton University
Joint Master's Public Affairs and Urban & Regional Planning
Meteorological Studies
Penn State, College of DuPage
Work Experience:WGAL - Lancaster, Pennsylvania
WZBN-Trenton, New Jersey
NBC News - New York
WEEK - Peoria, Illinois
WLFL - Raleigh, North Carolina
CLTV News - Chicago, Illinois
WGN - Chicago, Illinois
Keenan graduated from Franklin & Marshall College in Lancaster, Pennsylvania and later earned a dual Master's Degree in Domestic Policy and Urban & Regional Planning from Princeton University in Princeton, New Jersey.
He studied meteorology at Penn State, the College of DuPage, Portland State and Oklahoma State. A native of Philadelphia, Keenan's first job in television was at WGAL-TV the dominant station in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. He started as an intern and a few months later he was anchoring cut-ins overnight.
Keenan left Lancaster to take a job "behind the scenes" with NBC News in New York City, where he worked for Dateline NBC and NBC's New York News Bureau. Keenan return to on-camera work as a reporter/anchor at WZBN in Trenton, New Jersey and Raleigh, North Carolina and later as a reporter/news & weather anchor in Peoria, Illinois.
Keenan is the proud recipient of an Illinois Associated Press Award for Investigative Reporting. He was elected to full member of the American Meteorological Society and holds the AMS Seal of Approval. In 2005, Keenan was nominated for an Midwest Regional Emmy Award.
Keenan and his wife Jamila are the parents of one son.
