Valor Awards Program - City of Alexandria
Valor Awards Program - City of Alexandria
Valor Awards Program - City of Alexandria
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DOUG HILL<br />
Vice President Weather and Chief<br />
Meteorologist, ABC7/WJLA-TV<br />
Doug Hill has earned a reputation as<br />
one <strong>of</strong> Washington’s most accurate<br />
and entertaining weather forecasters.<br />
As Vice President, Weather and Chief<br />
Meteorologist, he brings nearly<br />
30 years experience to his daily<br />
broadcasts on ABC7/WJLA-TV News at<br />
5 and 6.<br />
Hill has been honored with a<br />
Washington Emmy Award for broadcast<br />
excellence. He has also been awarded the “Seal <strong>of</strong> Approval” from<br />
the American Meteorological Society.<br />
Prior to joining ABC7/WJLA-TV, Hill served for 16 years as Chief<br />
Meteorologist for the Washington CBS affiliate. He began his<br />
broadcast career in 1978 at WWBT-TV in Richmond, Virginia. In<br />
1980 he made the move to Detroit where he worked for both<br />
WDIV-TV and WXYZ-TV, before returning in 1984 to Washington.<br />
Hill attended Towson State College, before he entered the United<br />
States Air Force. Most <strong>of</strong> his four-year tour was spent at Andrews<br />
AFB, where he was awarded the Air Force Commendation Medal.<br />
After his military service, Doug became a Prince George’s County<br />
Police Officer where served for six years until Mike Buchanan and<br />
John Harter convinced him he could make the unlikely switch<br />
from cop to broadcaster. And the rest is history.<br />
A native Marylander, Doug, his wife Mary-Ann and their children,<br />
horse, dog and cats live in Calvert County.
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