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Overview
Mary Kay Kleist is a meteorologist at WBBM-TV, the CBS station in Chicago. She appears on CBS News Chicago and CBS2 News at 5 p.m. on weeknights. She has been at WBBM-TV since 2002.
She started out as a weekend weather anchor at WJCL-TV in Savannah, Georgia. Her earlier stops include WXYZ-TV in Detroit, Michigan; WFLA-TV in Tampa, Florida; and WGN-AM Radio and CLTV.
Kleist’s honors include three Emmy Awards in 2015. She holds the American Meteorological Society’s Certified Broadcast Meteorologist (CBM) designation. Kleist earned a B.A. in radio and television from the University of Central Florida and studied broadcast Meteorology Program at Mississippi State University.
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Mary Kay Kleist at a glance
- Role
- meteorologist
- Station
- WBBM-TV (CBS)
- At the station since
- 2002
- TV market
- Chicago, IL
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