Karen Rogers is an American meteorologist. She has been with WPVI-TV

WPVI-TV

WPVI-TV, channel 6, is an owned-and-operated television station of the Walt Disney Company-owned American Broadcasting Company, located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. WPVI has its studios located on the border between Philadelphia and Bala Cynwyd, and its transmitter is located in the...

, channel 6 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Pennsylvania

The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania is a U.S. state that is located in the Northeastern and Mid-Atlantic regions of the United States. The state borders Delaware and Maryland to the south, West Virginia to the southwest, Ohio to the west, New York and Ontario, Canada, to the north, and New Jersey to...

 since 1996 and is currently the morning traffic reporter and part of the "Double Team AccuWeather

AccuWeather

AccuWeather is an American media company that provides for-profit weather forecasting services worldwide.AccuWeather was founded in 1962 by Joel N. Myers, then a Penn State graduate student working on degrees in meteorology. His first customer was a gas company in Pennsylvania. While running the...

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David Murphy (reporter)

David Murphy has been with WPVI since 1990 and is currently part of "Double team AccuWeather" along with Karen Rogers and is the noon weathercaster. He holds American Meteorological Society and National Weather Association seals of approval. He began as a general assignment reporter, and then...

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Early life

Rogers was born and raised in New Jersey

New Jersey

New Jersey is a state in the Northeastern and Middle Atlantic regions of the United States. , its population was 8,791,894. It is bordered on the north and east by the state of New York, on the southeast and south by the Atlantic Ocean, on the west by Pennsylvania and on the southwest by Delaware...

. Karen is the youngest of ten children. She graduated from Rutgers University

Rutgers University

Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey , is the largest institution for higher education in New Jersey, United States. It was originally chartered as Queen's College in 1766. It is the eighth-oldest college in the United States and one of the nine Colonial colleges founded before the American...

 in New Brunswick, New Jersey

New Brunswick, New Jersey

New Brunswick is a city in Middlesex County, New Jersey, USA. It is the county seat and the home of Rutgers University. The city is located on the Northeast Corridor rail line, southwest of Manhattan, on the southern bank of the Raritan River. At the 2010 United States Census, the population of...

 with degrees in Communication and Sociology.

Broadcasting career

Rogers joined WPVI as a reporter for AM Philadelphia. When it was cancelled, she served in the same capacity for Philly After Midnight. After that was cancelled, she became the weekend morning weatherperson. In 2005, she received her current assignment, having temporarily also provided traffic reports for the 5 p.m. broadcast in addition to the morning. Rogers also provides reports for Boscov's

Boscov's

Boscov's is an American department store founded by Solomon Boscov in 1911. The first store was in Reading, Pennsylvania, and today 40 stores are spread throughout the Mid-Atlantic states of Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Maryland, New York, and Delaware....

 Thanksgiving Day Parade and the Sunoco

Sunoco

Sunoco Inc. is an American petroleum and petrochemical manufacturer headquartered in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, formerly known as Sun Company Inc. and Sun Oil Co. ....

 "Welcome America" program on July 4. She co-hosts WPVI's annual Philly on Wheels special with Cecily Tynan

Cecily Tynan

Cecily Tynan is an American television reporter who has been with WPVI-TV since 1995. Currently, she is the 5, 6, & 11 p.m. weathercaster...

 and also co-hosts WPVI's broadcast of the Philadelphia Flower Show

Philadelphia Flower Show

The Philadelphia International Flower Show is an annual event produced by The Pennsylvania Horticultural Society and held in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania at the Pennsylvania Convention Center in early March...

 with the rest of the 6 ABC AccuWeather

AccuWeather

AccuWeather is an American media company that provides for-profit weather forecasting services worldwide.AccuWeather was founded in 1962 by Joel N. Myers, then a Penn State graduate student working on degrees in meteorology. His first customer was a gas company in Pennsylvania. While running the...

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