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.
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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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