{"id":371307,"date":"2026-07-13T16:55:12","date_gmt":"2026-07-13T16:55:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/371307\/"},"modified":"2026-07-13T16:55:12","modified_gmt":"2026-07-13T16:55:12","slug":"chase-franks-makes-on-air-debut-as-new-kvue-austin-meteorologist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/371307\/","title":{"rendered":"Chase Franks makes on-air debut as new KVUE Austin meteorologist"},"content":{"rendered":"

Chase Franks made his on-air debut at\u00a0KVUE Austin<\/a> on Wednesday, July 8, as the ABC affiliate’s<\/a> weekend morning meteorologist. He will also deliver forecasts for the station’s midday and 4 p.m. newscasts Monday through Wednesday.<\/p>\n

“I’m a native Texan, so it’s good to finally be back in my home state,” Franks said during his KVUE introduction.<\/p>\n

Franks joins\u00a0KVUE from WLBT 3 in Jackson, Miss., where he served as the morning meteorologist since January 2024. His final day at the station was June 26.<\/p>\n

In a farewell message posted in June, he said he and his wife, Hope, were ready for a new adventure after six years in Mississippi.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“If you know me, you know returning to Texas has always been a dream of mine,” he wrote. “Because of everything Mississippi has taught me, I’m excited to say that dream is becoming a reality.”<\/p>\n

Franks was born and raised in the Dallas-Fort Worth area.<\/a> He developed a passion for weather at an early age and has been storm chasing across the Great Plains since he was 14.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Franks earned a degree in broadcast meteorology from Mississippi State University<\/a>. He launched his broadcast career while still in college at Gray Television’s WTOK 11 in Meridian, Miss., where he worked as a weekend meteorologist from March 2022 until joining WLBT in January 2024.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Chase Franks made his on-air debut at\u00a0KVUE Austin on Wednesday, July 8, as the ABC affiliate’s weekend morning…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":371308,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[1836,1704,85744,27,29,28],"class_list":["post-371307","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-chronnews","tag-chronstaff","tag-chrontexas","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371307","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=371307"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371307\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/371308"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=371307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=371307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=371307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}