Ed Curran has a varied background in broadcasting and is comfortable covering a news story, doing a talk show or forecasting the weather. A native Chicagoan, Ed’s entire career has been right here in his home town. Although he’s done a wide range of stories for radio and TV, Ed’s specialties are science and technology. A meteorologist at WBBM-TV in Chicago, he’s been awarded the American Meteorological Society’s Certified Broadcast Meteorologist (CBM) designation.
Ed’s technology reporting began while he was at WGN Radio, trademarking the term Technogadgets®. For more than 2 decades, he’s covered the high-tech lifestyle beat and has been featured on television and radio stations nationwide. Ed’s humorous approach and unpredictable style make his segments entertaining for techno-wizards and the techno-clueless alike. Among his accomplishments at WGN Radio, Ed Curran was the first host to combine a live radio broadcast with an AOL chatroom. Digital lifestyle author Howard Rheingold, who wrote “The Virtual Community: Homesteading on the Electronic Frontier,” called Ed “a pioneer on the electronic frontier — the hippest guy in radioland!”
Along with many successful years in radio at WIND, WGN, WLS and WGCI, Ed has also been a versatile television broadcaster. His high-tech reports were seen on WGN-TV’s Morning News, where he also filled in as weather forecaster. He later served as CNN’s high-tech correspondent and joined the NBC-owned station in Chicago as a meteorologist. In 2002, Ed joined the CBS-owned and operated station in Chicago, WBBM, as a meteorologist and reporter.
A lifelong Chicagoan, Ed graduated from Columbia College with a BA in Broadcast Communications. He has been awarded the American Meteorological Society’s Certified Broadcast Meteorologist (CBM) seal. To earn the CBM, broadcasters must hold a degree in meteorology or equivalent from an accredited college or university, pass a rigorous written exam and have their on-air work reviewed to assess technical competence, informational value, explanatory value and communication skills.
A ten-time Emmy award recipient, Ed lives in the northwest suburbs with his wife Monica, son Jeff and their dog. Ed’s daughter, Jessica, is married and lives in the Chicago area.