Tyler Moore, a Brookfield native, is joining WTMJ-TV (Channel 4) as morning meteorologist

Meteorologist Tyler Moore, a Brookfield Central High School alum, is joining Milwaukee's WTMJ-TV (Channel 4), filling the roster spot vacated when Marisa Woloszyn left the station in May.

Moore will start his gig at Channel 4 on Dec. 4, and begin as meteorologist on Channel 4's weekday morning newscasts from 5 to 7 a.m. shortly after that, the Scripps-owned station said Monday.

Moore is coming back home from WTSP-TV in Tampa, Florida, where he's been the station's weekend meteorologist since March 2022. After interning at WKRN-TV in Nashville, Tennessee, and CNN in Atlanta while in college, Moore worked at WJFW-TV in Rhinelander and KFSM-TV in Fayetteville, Arkansas, before taking the Tampa job.

In a statement issued by Channel 4, Moore said he was looking forward to living close to family, and to joining the station he watched when he was a kid.

“My passion to be a meteorologist started in Milwaukee," Moore said. "Ever since first grade, I’ve only wanted to be a meteorologist; in fact, I grew up watching TMJ4 because of their history of great meteorologists."

Moore's hiring fills out Channel 4's meteorologist lineup. In May, Woloszyn left the station after two years in Milwaukee for a job in her hometown, Detroit. Moore joins a rotation that includes chief meteorologist Brian Niznansky, Kristen Kirchhaine and Brendan Johnson.

In July, a television industry recruiting firm CEO wrote for the Radio Television Digital News Association that 2023 could be known in the industry as "the year of the weather openings," as demand for weather information continues to increase and more meteorologists leave TV for other fields.

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