![]() ![]() Necessary cookies are absolutely essential for the website to function properly. Weather Channel founder John Coleman passed away Saturday night at the age of 83: /eeF2lb4yTD RIP: John Coleman, former weatherman for and co-founder of has died at age 83: /fHb2lja9Qs We are deeply saddened to report that longtime KUSI weatherman and founder of The Weather Channel, John Coleman has passed away at age 83. John Coleman, founder of The Weather Channel and longtime San Diego meteorologist, dies at 83 /8fqZOrdr0H I owe everything to you!Ĭoleman was a vocal skeptic of global warming, and was respected by another global warming skeptic, Joe Bastardi (Chief Forecaster at ). Most of all, thank you to the San Diego viewers who have been kind enough to watch me and support my efforts through thick and thin. I wish you all every success and happiness. Thanks to my fellow team members, you have been very kind and patient with me and helped me along when the going got tough. Now is the time to wind down the professional working part of my life and make the most of my private time in the years I have left. We individual people are very small and very temporary parts of the big picture. The universe, the galaxy, the solar system, the sun, Earth… every species fades away in time. KUSI Coleman Retirement Announcement Online Coleman fondly called his KUSI-TV job “his retirement job.” Coleman abruptly left KUSI while on vacation in April 2014, with no on-air farewell. He moved to Southern California about 1994 to join the independent television station, KUSI-TV in San Diego. At WMAQ-TV, Coleman worked with news anchors Ron Magers and Carol Marin, and Sports Anchor Mark Giangreco. After being forced out of TWC, Coleman became weather anchor at WCBS-TV in New York and then at WMAQ-TV in Chicago. Coleman served as TWC’s CEO and President during the start-up and its first year of operation. In 1981, Coleman persuaded communications entrepreneur and media mogul Frank Batten to help establish The Weather Channel. Coleman worked at ABC 7 Chicago from 1968-1979 with a very popular news team including News Anchor John Drury, News Anchor Joel Daly, News Anchor Fahey Flynn, and Sportscaster Bill Frink. Coleman also worked as a weather anchor for KETV in Omaha, WISN-TV in Milwaukee and then WBBM-TV and WLS-TV in Chicago. After receiving his journalism degree in 1957, he became the weather anchor for WCIA’s sister station WMBD-TV in Peoria, Illinois. The last 20 years of Coleman’s weather forecasting career were spent at KUSI-TV in San Diego.Ĭoleman 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. American TV weatherman and co-founder of The Weather Channel, John Coleman, who retired from broadcasting in 2014 after working as a weatherman almost 61 years, passed away at his home in Las Vegas, Saturday, January 20, 2018. ![]()
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