In August 2022, she was a guest on the InFOCUS Podcast to share how attention for a social media post that went viral — a photo of Meaghan Thomas and her hearing aids, along with her revelation that she’s required them from the time she wakes up until she’s ready for bed — created positivity and encouragement for deaf and hard-of-hearing youth in Tennessee.
Now, Thomas has relocated from a Nexstar Media Group-owned NBC affiliate in Nashville to one of the largest FOX affiliates in the South — a Gray Television property.
Thomas is now a part of the First Alert Weather Team at WBRC-6 in Birmingham.
Her first day at “FOX 6” was on Monday, and formally said farewell to WKRN-2 in Nashville viewers on May 31. There, she was a weather anchor on the Good Morning Nashville wake-up program.
Thomas, who joined Nexstar’s WKRN in July 2020, is also the founder of The Heart of Hearing, with a mission to improve lives by providing hearing aids to young professionals who cannot afford them through our fundraisers and events.
The arrival at WBRC is a return to Birmingham for Thomas, who holds a B.A. in Broadcast News & Geography from the University of Alabama and spent six years at Sinclair Inc.-owned WBMA-LD, branded as “ABC 33/40,” in Birmingham, serving as wake-up meteorologist from July 2017-July 2020.
While a graduate student at Mississippi State University, Thomas was a fill-in meteorologist at WCBI-TV in Columbus, Miss.
