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The Weather Channel was founded on July 18, 1980, [9] by television meteorologist John Coleman (who had served as a chief meteorologist at ABC owned-and-operated station WLS-TV in Chicago and as a forecaster for Good Morning America) and Frank Batten, then-president of the channel's original owner Landmark Communications (now Landmark Media Enterprises).
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]
Coleman was also a weather anchor for KETV in Omaha, WISN-TV in Milwaukee and then WBBM-TV and WLS-TV in Chicago. [2] [5] In 1972, Coleman and his stage crew craftsmen at WLS-TV created the first chroma key weather map ever in use. [2] [3] WLS Eyewitness News team, 1972. Back, from left: anchor John Drury, anchor Joel Daly.
The Weather Company LLC is a weather forecasting and information technology company that owns and operates weather.com (the website for The Weather Channel), and Weather Underground. From 2016 to 2023, The Weather Company was a subsidiary of the Watson & Cloud Platform business unit of IBM . [ 2 ]
Frank Batten (February 11, 1927 – September 10, 2009 [3]) was an American billionaire businessman, and co-founder of the first nationwide, 24-hour cable weather channel, The Weather Channel. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] His media company, Landmark Media Enterprises , once owned nine daily newspapers, more than 50 weekly newspapers, television stations in Las ...
Weather Center Live (originally titled Weather Center) is an American weather news television program that aired on The Weather Channel from 2009 until 2021. Airing in various timeslots throughout the daytime (and sometimes nighttime) hours and serving as The Weather Channel's de facto flagship forecast program, it features weather forecasts, analysis and weather-related feature segments.
Pages in category "The Weather Channel people" The following 35 pages are in this category, out of 35 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A.
The Weather Network was licensed by the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission on December 1, 1987 [1] and began broadcasting on September 1, 1988 (six years after the U.S. Weather Channel) as WeatherNow, under the ownership of engineering firm Lavalin Inc. (now known as SNC-Lavalin) and Landmark Communications. [2]