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2016 Kansas Broadcasting
Distinguished Service Award and
Hall of Fame Award
Dave Freeman, Wichita
Dave Freeman has been the Chief Meteorologist of
KSN TV in Wichita since 1993. His career started in
1979 in Huntington, WV and was followed by
weather positions in Champaign, IL and Peoria, IL.
Dave is honored to serve as the 41st President of the
National Weather Association. He is also the first
person ever recognized two times as Broadcaster of
the Year by the NWA.
Dave has earned an Emmy award for environmental reporting, and was
part of team coverage that won a National Edward R. Murrow Award from
the Radio-Television News Directors Association for coverage of
dangerous train derailment and chemical spill. In addition to his work on
KSN, he has been recognized for his severe weather coverage on radio. He
was part of teams honored with the 1999 Kansas Association of
Broadcasters Award for Best Radio In-Depth Reporting for coverage of the
May 3, 1999, tornado that struck Wichita and south-central Kansas; a
Regional Edward R. Murrow Award in 1998 by the Radio-Television News
Directors Association for radio coverage of urban flooding that struck
Wichita in 1997; and Best Radio Spot News in Kansas from the Associated
Press in 1996 for coverage of a tornado near Pretty Prairie, Kansas.
In addition to anchoring the weather, Dave has also co-written a children’s
book on storms, and a severe weather safety brochure for teenagers. He
serves on the faculty of the University of Missouri, as an online Lecturer,
in the Soil, Environmental and Atmospheric Sciences Department.
Dave is happily married and has three great kids, one great son in law and
one great daughter in law.