Name Geoff Fox | Role Newscaster | |
Education Emerson College, Mississippi State University | ||
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Geoff Fox (born July 26, 1950) is an on-air American television broadcast meteorologist with a career spanning over 30 years. For 27 years he was at the television station WTNH in New Haven, Connecticut, where he started in 1984 and was senior meteorologist until 2011, and later with WTIC-TV in Hartford, Connecticut, where he was the weeknight 5:00 and 11:00 p.m. meteorologist, reported science and technology stories for the 4:00 p.m. newscast and was host for a garden segment titled "Geoff's Garden".
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Fox graduated from Brooklyn Technical High School. He received a certificate in broadcast meteorology from Mississippi State University and holds a broadcast seal from the American Meteorological Society.
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In May, 1984 Fox started his meteorologist career for the television station WTNH in New Haven, Connecticut, where he was then promoted to "Senior meteorologist".
In 1995, in addition to working for WTNH, he began hosting the program Inside Space, a program on Syfy (SciFi Channel at the time).
In 2011, after 27 years at WTNH, Fox discovered that his contract at WTNH would not be renewed. His departure received national media attention due to the loyalty of WTNH viewers in addition to his long spanned career with the station.]
In April 2011 he was hired by FOX affilitate WTIC-TV, where he did the weather and science reports on weeknights. He was dismissed after 19 months, for what the station identified as "inappropriate conduct". Later Fox developed an internet based company for designing and building websites.
In Mid-2013, Fox relocated to Southern California. Approximately two years later in January 2015, he joined KMIR-TV NBC 36 in Palm Springs, where he served as the weeknight meteorologist from early 2015 until September, 2015.{{cn|date=July 2017}
On August 19, 2015, Fox announced that he would be working as the on-air meteorologist for "News Channel Nebraska’s first station in Norfolk", with more stations on the way. Fox forecasts for News Channel Nebraska from his home studio weather center built in his garage.
In mid-2017, an agreement was made between the management of WTNH-TV and Fox for him to return to the News8 airwaves for a fill-in 7 week period on-air weeknights from his home studio during the summer. At the end of this period on Friday Fox had told WTHI-TV management that he was interested in a permanent full-time position with the station and was hopeful to transition to full-time employment. Though management offered Fox a part-time position he had rejected the offer.
WTNH News Director Keith Connors made a comment stating “We are grateful for all Geoff did for WTNH this summer and we wish him nothing but the best in the future.”