Myers, WTVT, the CBS and later Fox affiliate in Tampa and WTVJ (NBC) in Miami.
He has been with WTVT since 1990, and took over for Roy Leep as the chief meteorologist in 1997 (he previously served as morning meteorologist until 1997).
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In 1997, the news division of WTVT (Channel 13), a Fox-owned station in Tampa, Florida, planned to air an investigative report by Steve Wilson and Jane Akre on the health risks associated with Monsanto's bovine growth hormone product, Posilac.
However, the Times New Roman "13," which the station has used since the early 1990s, was retained (unlike WHBQ-TV in Memphis, which switched to a "13" resembling that used by its Tampa sister station WTVT).
Upon leaving Illinois, she joined WTVT-TV, Tampa Bay's CBS affiliate (now a Fox station) as the director of community relations.
The only other certified broadcast meteorologists outside of WTVT in the market are Mike Clay, Josh Linker, Brian McClure, and Juli Marquez of Bay News 9, Tammie Souza of WTSP, and Steve Jerve and Leigh Spann of WFLA.