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Under its current ownership, the title was revised in 2000 to KETV NewsWatch 7. KETV was the first station in the market to have a full-time meteorologist beginning in the early 1970s, the first station to use live weather radar in the late 1970s, and was the second station to utilize Doppler weather radar in the early 1980s. In November 2006 ...
Coleman started his career in 1953 at WCIA in Champaign, Illinois, doing the early evening weather forecast and a local bandstand show called At The Hop while he was a student at University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign. [2] After receiving his journalism degree in 1957, he became the weather anchor for WCIA's sister station WMBD-TV in ...
Shannon Kay O'Donnell is an American meteorologist and news anchor. O'Donnell was born in Redmond, Washington and attended Redmond High School where she was valedictorian. [1] After graduation, she attended University of Washington, studying meteorology and graduating with a degree in atmospheric sciences.
The Weather Channel launched on Sunday, May 2, 1982. Programming began with an introduction to the channel by Batten and Coleman, which led into an inauguration ceremony that launched the channel's first official broadcast at 8:00 p.m. Eastern Time that evening, anchored by meteorologists Bruce Edwards and André Bernier. [3]
Ted Fujita. Gregory Stanley Forbes (born August 22, 1950) is The Weather Channel 's long-time severe weather expert and has a significant research background in the areas of severe convective storms and tornadoes. [1] Born and raised near Latrobe, Pennsylvania, [2] Forbes earned a B.S. degree in meteorology at Pennsylvania State University (PSU ...
Harold Earnest Taft Jr. (September 5, 1922 – September 27, 1991), affectionately known as "The World's Greatest Weatherman" and "The Dean of TV Meteorologists", was the first television meteorologist west of the Mississippi River and held the post for a record 41 years. A native of Enid, Oklahoma, he joined the Army Air Corps during World War ...
The history of surface weather analysis concerns the timetable of developments related to surface weather analysis. Initially a tool of study for the behavior of storms, surface weather analyses became a work in progress to explain current weather and as an aid for short term weather forecasting. Initial efforts to create surface weather ...
Cantore has become one of the best-known meteorologists on American television. [2] Algis Laukaitis of the Lincoln (Nebraska) Journal Star referred to Cantore as the "rock star of meteorologists". [3] Cantore has been lauded for his ability to "break down" complicated weather events into terms the average viewer can understand.