Philly TV: CBS3 Adds Husband & Wife To On-Air Staff

KYW TV CBS3 has added a husband-and-wife team to its ranks of on-air personalities, hiring meteorologist Grnt Gilmore and reporter Liz Crawford, reports The Philly Business Journal.

Both come from WTSP-TV, the CBS affiliate in Tampa, Florida. CBS3 President and General Manager Kelly Frank confirmed the new additions, saying both will start in May.

Gilmore and Crawford announced the move Monday on Twitter, sharing a photo of themselves in front of the CBS3 studios on Hamilton Street. Gilmore said they "look forward to raising our GROWING family in the same place Liz was raised.” Crawford, a South Jersey native, noted on her announcement that she is expecting the couples third child while expressing excitement about returning home.

Gilmore & Crawford

Crawford is a 2009 graduate of La Salle University who started her career as a fill-in traffic reporter at NBC10 (WCAU-TV) before becoming a reporter at WICU12 News in Erie (2010-11), a multimedia journalist and sports anchor at WFMY in Greensboro, North Carolina, and then a multimedia journalist at WTSP (2017 to present).

Gilmore, a native of Saline, Michigan, played soccer and earned his degree in atmospheric science at University of North Carolina Asheville in 2006 and has served as a meteorologist ever since. According to his LinkedIn page, he started his career at WMAZ-TV, the CBS affiliate in Macon, Georgia, before joining WFMY in Greensboro, where he served as chief meteorologist for four years and met Crawford.

According to Crawford's WSTP bio, she and Gilmore married in 2016 and moved together to Tampa and WTSP a year later, making this their second move together. The couple have two young daughters.

There has been an opening at CBS3 for a meteorologist since Llarisa Abreu departed her morning drive shift for a job at the NBC affiliate in Miami. But it appears that Kate Bilo, who was succeeded as chief metereologist by newcomer Billy Kelly, earlier this year, has decided to move to the morning drive shift. 

Bilo’s move to mornings frees up afternoons for Gilmore. Frank said he will appear on the noon and 4 p.m. newscasts, bringing CBS3 up to a full complement of five meteorologists. Both he and Bilo will also appear on the CBS News Philadelphia stream.