Dave Brown

Who is Dave Brown?

David H. "Dave" Brown has been chief meteorologist since 1977 for WMC-TV, the NBC affiliate in Memphis, Tennessee, USA. Brown is an American Meteorological Society Certified Broadcast Meteorologist and holds the Seal Of Approval of the National Weather Association.

Brown grew up in Trenton, Tennessee. He came to Memphis to study political science at the University of Memphis, and began his broadcasting career as a disc jockey at WKBJ Radio in Milan, Tennessee as a sophomore in high school at age 15. He moved to WIRJ Radio in Humboldt, Tennessee one year later. He moved to WHBQ-AM Radio56 in Memphis, where he was on the air from September 1964 to October 1968. This station was the first to play a song by Elvis Presley on the radio. In October 1968 he accepted an offer to become a staff announcer and host of Dialing For Dollars across the hall on WHBQ-TV. He began his career in meteorology as weathercaster on the initial broadcast of the noon newscast in May 1972. He was named chief weathercaster from 1973 to 1977 before joining WMC-TV.