KXAS Meteorologist Finfrock In Long-Term Deal

NBC-owned KXAS Dallas announced that Chief Meteorologist David Finfrock has signed a long-term agreement with the station. Additionally, Finfrock said he will retire at the agreement’s end, after a more than 40-year career with the station.

KXAS also announced that meteorologist Rick Mitchell will join NBC 5 News at 10 p.m. and NBC 5 First at Four (4 p.m.), Monday-Friday. Finfrock will continue to forecast during NBC 5 News at 5 p.m. and 6 p.m., weekdays.

Meteorologist Grant Johnston will move to NBC 5 Today each weekday morning at 5-7 a.m. while meteorologist Samantha Davies will continue to forecast weather from 4:30 to 5 a.m., each weekday. NBC 5 meteorologist Remeisha Shade will remain doing the weekend morning newscasts.

Finfrock is only KXAS’s second chief meteorologist in the station’s 64-year history. After receiving his meteorology degree from Texas A&M University in 1975, he joined KXAS and was mentored by legendary North Texas meteorologist, Harold Taft.  Finfrock was named chief meteorologist in 1991.

Mitchell has been chief meteorologist at KOCO Oklahoma City since 1994. Previously, he forecast weather at WOI Des Moines, Iowa, and Accu-Weather in State College, Pa.

Finfrock and Mitchell will work together transitioning responsibilities for the NBC 5 News at 10 p.m. and NBC 5 First at Four in the coming weeks.

Johnston will assume his weekday morning assignment on NBC 5 News Today immediately. He joined KXAS in 2010 and has appeared primarily on weekend evening newscasts, but recently filled in on NBC 5 Today from 5-7 a.m. weekdays.He came to KXAS from KFOR Oklahoma City. Johnston graduated from the University of Missouri with a degree in atmospheric science.

The station said it is looking for a meteorologist for its weekend evening newscasts.