{"id":11531,"date":"2016-06-03T22:00:10","date_gmt":"2016-06-04T03:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.robertfeder.com\/?p=11531"},"modified":"2016-06-03T22:00:20","modified_gmt":"2016-06-04T03:00:20","slug":"kalee-dionne-joins-nbc-5-weather-front","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/2016\/06\/03\/kalee-dionne-joins-nbc-5-weather-front\/","title":{"rendered":"Kalee Dionne joins NBC 5 weather front"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_11532\" style=\"width: 790px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/2016\/06\/03\/kalee-dionne-joins-nbc-5-weather-front\/\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11532\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-large wp-image-11532\" alt=\"Kalee Dionne\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Kalee-Dionne-1024x685.jpg\" width=\"780\" height=\"521\" srcset=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Kalee-Dionne-1024x685.jpg 1024w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Kalee-Dionne-300x200.jpg 300w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Kalee-Dionne-150x100.jpg 150w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Kalee-Dionne-400x267.jpg 400w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Kalee-Dionne-800x535.jpg 800w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Kalee-Dionne-200x133.jpg 200w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Kalee-Dionne.jpg 1072w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 780px) 100vw, 780px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-11532\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><\/a> Kalee Dionne<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Kalee Dionne, morning meteorologist at the NBC affiliate in Kansas City, is coming home to Chicago to join the weather team at NBC-owned <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nbcchicago.com \" target=\"_blank\">WMAQ-Channel 5.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Frank Whittaker, station manager and vice president of news at NBC 5, confirmed Friday that Dionne would start in September. No word yet on her specific assignment.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>A native of Herscher, Illinois, a small town southwest of Chicago, Dionne told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/video.php?v=10154179997218446\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a> friends Friday: \u201cI've had a great journey in 9 years and 4 different stations . . . 4 different communities and 4 different weather experiences all that I have loved and will always take with me. Now I'm coming home to you Chicago. I will be joining NBC 5 Chicago's amazing team in the fall.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Dionne, who has worked at KSHB in Kansas City since 2013, was voted the city\u2019s best meteorologist by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thisiskc.com\" target=\"_blank\">KC Magazine <\/a>in 2014.<\/p>\n<p>She previously worked for WIAT, the CBS affiliate in Birmingham, Alabama; WCIA, the CBS affiliate in Champaign, Illinois; and WSIL, the ABC affiliate in Carterville, Illinois. A graduate of Southern Illinois University in Carbondale, Dionne received her meteorology degree from Mississippi State University.<\/p>\n<p>NBC 5\u2019s weather team includes Brant Miller, Andy Avalos, Byron Miranda, Alicia Roman and Pete Sack.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kalee Dionne, morning meteorologist at the NBC affiliate in Kansas City, is coming home to Chicago to join the weather team at NBC-owned WMAQ-Channel 5. Frank Whittaker, station manager and vice president of news at NBC 5, confirmed Friday that Dionne would start in September. No word yet on her specific assignment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11531"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11531"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11531\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11534,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11531\/revisions\/11534"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}