[1] These jobs took him throughout every small town in Western Pennsylvania, allowing him to become intimately familiar with the geography of the region, a skill that aided him as a weatherman.
[1] Benson was described to have had his TV career's "defining moment" during the Blizzard of 1993, in which he and a co-anchor were on the air for most of an entire weekend.
A Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reporter criticized a 2006 WPXI gasoline giveaway presented by Benson because it allowed "commercialism to invade the bounds of the newscast".
[5] After reporting the weather on weekends for almost all of his years at WPXI, the station moved Benson to weekday mornings in April 2012.
Benson was charged with DUI as a result of a traffic stop by a PA State trooper on september 19 2019.