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John Coleman (meteorologist)
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| John Coleman | ||
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 John Coleman, KUSI News Weathercaster |
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| Birth name | John Coleman | |
| Born | October 15, 1934 | |
| Birth place | Alpine, Texas   |
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| Circumstances | ||
| Occupation | Television Weathercaster | |
| Marital status | Married | |
| Spouse | Linda Coleman | |
| Notable relatives | Parents: Claude & Hazel Coleman | |
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| Official website | ||
John Coleman is an American meteorologist and the founder of The Weather Channel.
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Coleman started his career at WCIA (TV) in Champaign, Illinois, doing the early evening weathercast and a local bandstand show called At The Hop while he was a student at University of Illinois. After receiving his degree in 1957, he became the weather anchor for WCIA's sister station WMBD-TV in Peoria, Illinois. Coleman was also a weather anchor for KETV in Omaha, WISN-TV in Milwaukee and then WBBM-TV and WLS-TV in Chicago.[1]
At WLS, Coleman was teamed with Fahey Flynn, Joel Daly and Bill Frink to form the Eyewitness News Team, creating a news brand name and establishing a highly successful new local news format dubbed "happy talk" by a local television columnist. This style of local news has been widely copied. The team dominated Chicago television news ratings for more than a decade. During his time at Chicago's WLS-TV, Coleman was one of Chicago's most popular meteorologists, famous for his amusing and irreverent style. It was then that Coleman became the original weathercaster on what was then the brand-new ABC network morning program, Good Morning America. He stayed seven years with this top-rated program anchored by David Hartman and Joann Lunden. [2]
He then founded The Weather Channel, serving as its CEO and President during the startup and its first year of operation. After being forced out at TWC, Coleman became weather anchor at WCBS in New York and then at WMAQ in Chicago, before moving to Southern California to join the independent television station, KUSI-TV in San Diego, in what Coleman fondly calls, "his retirement job".[2]
Coleman caused a national media stir in the fall of 2007, when he issued a website blog, calling the global warming frenzy "a fictional, manufactured crisis, and a total scam". [3] His postings arguing the science behind global warming can be read at www.kusi.com
Coleman is married to Linda Coleman, and lives in a retirement community in the San Diego suburb of Rancho Bernardo. He was born in 1934 in Alpine, Texas, the fifth child of a college professor and his math teacher wife, Claude and Hazel Coleman.
- ^ "Former WMBD-TV On-Air Staff" from The WMBD Blog, retrieved 2006-09-05
- ^ a b John Coleman biography on KUSI-TV web site, retrieved 2006-09-05
- ^ Comments about global warming
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