Alumnus wins Emmy Award for weather reporting
September 8, 2011
Sam Argier (’03) has won his second Emmy Award for weather news reporting. Argier is the morning meteorologist at KIRO 7 Eyewitness News, the CBS affiliate in Seattle.
“With so many talented broadcast meteorologists in the Northwest, this is a tremendous honor,” Argier said. “It means so much to be recognized by my peers,”
Argier graduated Magna Cum Laude from Chapman University with a degree in film and television. He also holds a bachelor’s degree in geosciences–broadcast meteorology from Mississippi State University. He earned his first Emmy Award in 2007 while at KMIR Television in Palm Desert, the NBC affiliate serving the Coachella Valle.