Career
Quinn used to serve as weather anchor for Columbia Broadcasting System This Morning Saturday. He also appears frequently on sister radio station WCBS-Department of Administration and Management 880 for their weather reports. 14-time Emmy Award recipient, including for "Best Weather Anchor" in 2015, 2014, 2012, 2011 and 2010, Lonnie Quinn joined Columbia Broadcasting System 2 in April 2007.
In June 2007, Quinn replaced John Bolaris, who moved to weekends only to finish out his contract.
During the 2005 hurricane season, Quinn worked closely with Max Mayfield, the former director of the National Hurricane Center, while tracking the most active tropical season in history. He also joined the Hurricane Hunters collecting data as they flew through the eye of Hurricane Isabel off the coast of North Carolina.
Prior to Miami TeleVision Journalism, Quinn worked at WVIR in Charlottesville, Virginia as evening news anchor and weekend weather anchor. Before that, he worked at several different stations in Charlottesville including WADA-LP, as an on-air personality at WQMZ-FM and as morning show co-host and news director at WVAO. In 2011 he became well known for in-depth coverage of Hurricane Irene.
On July 6, 2014 he was accused by Fox"s "Media Buzz" of plagiarizing word-for-word a brief account of a lightning strike that had originally been reported by a local television station in California.
He graduated magna cum laude from Boston College with a bachelor"s degree in communications, and swam for the Boston College swim team He holds a Federal Aviation Administration certificate in meteorology and consistently works on advancing his formal meteorological training. During his brief acting career he was best known for creating the role of Will Cooney (Cortlandt) on American Broadcasting Company"s All My Children (1988–1990).
He also played Rich Landers on the former National Broadcasting Company soap opera Santa Barbara from (1992–1993).
He also appeared as himself in two episodes of As the World Turns in November 2009.