Linda Church
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Linda Church has been the morning weather anchor for the WPIX
WPIX
WPIX, channel 11, is a television station in New York City built, signed on, and owned by the Tribune Company. WPIX also serves as the flagship station of The CW Television Network...

 (New York) CW11, formerly WB11, Morning News since its debut in June 2000. She also leads the Wakeup Workout segment that airs on Monday mornings.

Church was the WPIX weekend weather anchor from 1990 to 1996. From 1987 to 1990 Church worked for WNBC
WNBC
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 (New York). Church was the noon weather anchor at WCBS
WCBS-TV
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 (New York). Church also co-hosted the show "Summer Fun for Kids" with former WPIX colleague Mat Garcia in June 2003 and with Craig Treadway
Craig Treadway
Craig Treadway is co-anchor of the early edition of the PIX 11 Morning News, which airs from 5 to 6 a.m on weekdays, opposite Tiffany McElroy. Treadway joined WPIX-TV on the program on its June 5, 2000 debut. He had previously been a reporter from WNYW, since 1997...

 in July 2007.

Early career

Church began her career in Gainesville, Florida
Gainesville, Florida
Gainesville is the largest city in, and the county seat of, Alachua County, Florida, United States as well as the principal city of the Gainesville, Florida Metropolitan Statistical Area . The preliminary 2010 Census population count for Gainesville is 124,354. Gainesville is home to the sixth...

, and went on to work for stations in Cleveland, New Haven, and Charleston
Charleston, West Virginia
Charleston is the capital and largest city of the U.S. state of West Virginia. It is located at the confluence of the Elk and Kanawha Rivers in Kanawha County. As of the 2010 census, it has a population of 51,400, and its metropolitan area 304,214. It is the county seat of Kanawha County.Early...

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Awards

  • National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences (Emmy Awards)
  • Best Morning News Show (WB11 Morning News) - 2000, 2004

Background

Church attended the University of Florida
University of Florida
The University of Florida is an American public land-grant, sea-grant, and space-grant research university located on a campus in Gainesville, Florida. The university traces its historical origins to 1853, and has operated continuously on its present Gainesville campus since September 1906...


as an undergraduate and the University of New Haven
University of New Haven
The University of New Haven is a private university that combines a liberal arts education with professional training. The university comprises five colleges: the College of Arts and Sciences, the College of Business, the Tagliatela College of Engineering, the Henry C...

 for graduate studies. She has a seal from the American Meteorological Society
American Meteorological Society
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Church is married to WABC
WABC-TV
WABC-TV, channel 7, is the flagship station of the Disney-owned American Broadcasting Company located in New York City. The station's studios and offices are located on the Upper West Side section of Manhattan, adjacent to ABC's corporate headquarters, and its transmitter is atop the Empire State...

reporter Jim Dolan, although they are now separated. They have two children Colleen Dolan and Paul Dolan, both have made appearances with her mother on WPIX/CW11.

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