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Chicago Weatherman question
Posted by:
Vern H
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Date: July 27, 2012 12:49AM
Does anyone remember a weatherman who would either tear away part of the background or "paint" it away and it would show pictures and/or video? This would have been late 60's, maybe early 70's?
Thanks!
Thanks!
Re: Chicago Weatherman question
Posted by:
Mornac
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Date: July 27, 2012 03:25AM
I remember a guy named PJ Hoff who was something of a cartoonist. He would "illustrate" the weather (with drawings of icicles, snowmen, people sunning or swimming, etc.) on a large paper pad that he would either tear away or flip over. I don't know what channel he was on.
Re: Chicago Weatherman question
Posted by:
Lance Grey
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Date: July 27, 2012 06:49AM
dunno if its your man but when Green Screen/Chroma Key/Genlocks first came out,
ABC's Jim Coleman played Green Screen tricks & antics for a solid week.
To show the audience how it all worked, he wore the same color tie.
ABC's Jim Coleman played Green Screen tricks & antics for a solid week.
To show the audience how it all worked, he wore the same color tie.
Re: Chicago Weatherman question
Posted by:
Chipast
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Date: July 27, 2012 08:24PM
Lance Grey Wrote:
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> dunno if its your man but when Green Screen/Chroma
> Key/Genlocks first came out,
> ABC's Jim Coleman played Green Screen tricks &
> antics for a solid week.
>
> To show the audience how it all worked, he wore
> the same color tie.
You mean John Coleman????.
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> dunno if its your man but when Green Screen/Chroma
> Key/Genlocks first came out,
> ABC's Jim Coleman played Green Screen tricks &
> antics for a solid week.
>
> To show the audience how it all worked, he wore
> the same color tie.
You mean John Coleman????.
Re: Chicago Weatherman question
Posted by:
gglow
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Date: July 28, 2012 01:17AM
I believe it was P J Hoff he was on WBBM channel 2 .
Re: Chicago Weatherman question
Posted by:
johnhammond1
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Date: November 24, 2012 12:19AM
PJ Hoff was on channel 2--CBS, and was teamed with Fahey Flynn in the mid-late 50's and early 60's. The original post/question described him perfectly!
Re: Chicago Weatherman question
Posted by:
Lance Grey
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Date: November 24, 2012 12:39AM
Chipast Wrote:
> You mean John Coleman????.
I meant the Coleman weather guy on ABC who often tried to be funny. (But I'm not sayin' he wasn't)
He went out of his way to show the audience how a Green-Screen functioned.
> You mean John Coleman????.
I meant the Coleman weather guy on ABC who often tried to be funny. (But I'm not sayin' he wasn't)
He went out of his way to show the audience how a Green-Screen functioned.
Re: Chicago Weatherman question
Posted by:
mishadoc
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Date: December 16, 2014 12:28PM
John Coleman! Sure, Mr. Superboonies and Thunderboomers. Yea, I met him at Old Chicago back in the 70s. He went on to found the Weather Channel. I just learned that a day or two earlier. How cool is that?
Re: Chicago Weatherman question
Posted by:
southwestside83rd
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Date: February 12, 2015 01:47AM
definitely was John Coleman, what a character
Re: Chicago Weatherman question
Posted by:
Longford
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Date: February 12, 2015 02:16AM
Fahey Flynn. PJ Hoff. Channel 2. He wasn't much of a watherman, but, rather, a good illustrator.
Re: Chicago Weatherman question
Posted by:
Chipast
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Date: March 17, 2015 02:33AM
I wonder who was the weatherman before John Coleman?, When it was WBKB-TV?????
Re: Chicago Weatherman question
Posted by:
SWEDE
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Date: March 18, 2015 09:09PM
Didn't poor John Coleman almost lose his job for a bad prediction of the great snow storm in 1967? He said a chance of little snow. He was funny.
Re: Chicago Weatherman question
Posted by:
thimmaker
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Date: April 16, 2015 06:25PM
P J Hoff always used the same line. " the vice president in charge of looking out the window says its going to" xxx tomorrow.
Watched him and Fahey every night on that little black and white tv.
Watched him and Fahey every night on that little black and white tv.
Re: Chicago Weatherman question
Posted by:
tomcat630
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Date: May 09, 2015 04:40AM
John Coleman predicted 100 inches of snow for the winter of 79-80, one year after the Blizzard of '79 and Jane Byrne election, etc. When it turned out to be one of the mildest, he said "well I told people what they wanted to hear..." Shortly after was gone from Ch. 7, but went to cable.
Re: Chicago Weatherman question
Posted by:
G. O. Mancer
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Date: July 19, 2015 09:26PM
There was a weatherman who had these "icons" he would stick to the map magneticly, and a spinning Polaroid filter on the camera would animate them - blazing Sun, flashing lightning, falling snow, etc.
Coleman's star rose because he was the only weatherman who predicted more than a couple of inches in '67. He continued to play this tune for years. It did get him to a gig on "Good Morning America".
Coleman's star rose because he was the only weatherman who predicted more than a couple of inches in '67. He continued to play this tune for years. It did get him to a gig on "Good Morning America".
Re: Chicago Weatherman question
Posted by:
gman
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Date: July 20, 2015 12:13AM
G. O. Mancer Wrote:
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> Coleman's star rose because he was the only
> weatherman who predicted more than a couple of
> inches in '67. He continued to play this tune for
> years. It did get him to a gig on "Good Morning
> America".
Coleman started The Weather Channel and did very well for himself.
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> Coleman's star rose because he was the only
> weatherman who predicted more than a couple of
> inches in '67. He continued to play this tune for
> years. It did get him to a gig on "Good Morning
> America".
Coleman started The Weather Channel and did very well for himself.
Re: Chicago Weatherman question
Posted by:
EricV
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Date: July 20, 2015 10:43AM
Coleman was forced out at the Weather Channel about a year after it started.
Re: Chicago Weatherman question
Posted by:
chicagorootsgal
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Date: August 08, 2015 03:19AM
You know you're from Chicago when the first thought that came to mind were the radical Weathermen from the 60's...
Re: Chicago Weatherman question
Posted by:
Mornac
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Date: August 08, 2015 02:22PM
chicagorootsgal Wrote:
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> You know you're from Chicago when the first
> thought that came to mind were the radical
> Weathermen from the 60's...
--Yep.
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> You know you're from Chicago when the first
> thought that came to mind were the radical
> Weathermen from the 60's...
--Yep.
Re: Chicago Weatherman question
Posted by:
WayOutWardell
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Date: August 21, 2015 01:05AM
Harry Volkman has died at 89.
