Cecily Tynan

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name = Cecily Tynan


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birth_date = 1968
birth_place = Connecticut, USA
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education = B.A.
occupation = Television journalist
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gender = Female
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title = Newscaster
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spouse = Greg Watson
children = Luke, Emma Grace
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salary = $700,000/annually
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Cecily Tynan is an American television reporter and has been with WPVI-TV since 1995 and is currently the 5:30 p.m. and 11 p.m. weathercaster and co-hosts with Gary Papa the Saturday evening public affairs program Primetime Weekend.

Background

Tynan is a 1991 magna cum laude graduate of Washington and Lee University, from which she earned a degree in journalism and politics. She holds American Meteorological Society television seal number 1099 [ [http://www.ametsoc.org/memdir/seallist/get_listoftv.cfm AMS List of TV Seal Holders ] ] .

She came to WPVI from KTNV in Las Vegas, Nevada, where she worked as a weather and news anchor for "Good Morning Las Vegas." Prior to that, she was the weekend weather anchor and a general assignment reporter for WDBJ in Roanoke, Virginia.

At WPVI, she started out as a weekend weathercaster and general reporter. Then she became the weekday morning weathercaster. When Dave Roberts cut back his duties in 2003, she assumed her current position. After Lisa Thomas-Laury went on medical leave, Tynan took over as co-host of several locally produced specials, including: the 6 ABC Boscov's Thanksgiving Day Parade, the 4th of July Parade, Philly on Wheels, and the Flower Show.

Personal

Her salary is rumored to be $600,000 a year. After divorcing her first husband, school teacher, Michael Badger, she remarried (to divorcee Greg Watson) [ [http://www.vault.com/messages/TVSpyWatercooler/TVSpyWatercooler1337313.html Cecily Tynan - Homewrecker?: TVSpy Watercooler TVSpy Message Board (From Today's Daily News ) ] ] and gave birth to a baby boy named Luke on January 20, 2006, and a girl Emma Grace on September 17, 2007. [ [http://www.celebrity-babies.com/2007/09/wpvis-weatherca.html WPVI's weathercaster Cecily Tynan welcomes second child : Celebrity Baby Blog ] ] [ [http://abclocal.go.com/wpvi/story?section=news/local&id=3830084 6abc.com: Cecily Tynan's a Mommy! 1/21/06 ] ]

Tynan is also an accomplished long-distance runner and frequently runs marathons. [ [http://www.trifuel.com/news/event/greg-watson-and-cecily-tynan-cruise-to-victory-at-brandywine-valley-duathlon-000059.php Greg Watson and Cecily Tynan Cruise to Victory at Brandywine Valley Duathlon : trifuel.com ] ] She was featured on the February 2001 cover of Runner's World magazine.

External links

*imdb|0878979
* [http://www.phillyist.com/tags/cecilytynan phillyist]

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