From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Sam Champion
Sam Champion
Sam Champion weather reports for local ABC stations is, "That’s the
weather around the nation. Here’s what you can expect this
Born Samuel James Champion morning."[citation needed]
August 13, 1961 (1961-08-13)
Paducah, Kentucky, U.S.
Education Eastern Kentucky University (B.A.) Personal life
Title TV personality/anchor on Good Morning Champion is active in many charitable organizations in
America the New York City area. He was the Grand Marshal of the
Multiple Sclerosis Society Fall Bike Tour, the chairman
Years 1988–present
of the 25th annual March of Dimes NYC WalkAmerica,
active
and master of ceremonies of "Stopping AIDS Together", a
Official website part of Sunday by the Bay. He hosted the New York City
Project’s 2002 "Courage Awards", along with movie critic
Samuel James "Sam" Champion (born August 13, 1961) is Frank DeCaro.[3][4]
the weather anchor of ABC’s Good Morning America and A New York indie rock band is named after him.[5][6]
weather editor of ABC News.
References
Early life and education [1] Birth registration (McCracken County, Kentucky,
Champion was born in Paducah, Kentucky.[1] He has a Reg. # 85-42167
B.A. in broadcast news from Eastern Kentucky Univer- [2] ABC News Sam Champion Joins ’GMA’ as Weather
sity, where he interned at WKYT-TV in Lexington, Ken- Anchor
tucky. [3] Limsky, Drew (2005-08-30). "Nueva gay island". The
Advocate. http://findarticles.com/p/articles/
Career mi_m1589/is_2005_August_30/ai_n15655247.
[4] Anti-Violence Project to Hold Sixth Annual
Champion is a veteran of ABC. He was also a veteran Courage Awards
weatherman for WABC-TV’s Eyewitness News in the New [5] Dana, Lerner. "Sam Champion Goes on Tour for
York City media market for seventeen years, and has con- Slow Rewind". NYU Livewire.
tinued to do fill-in work on WABC-TV since taking the http://journalism.nyu.edu/pubzone/livewire/
network job full-time. He currently works on Good Morn- archived/sam_champion_goes_on_tour_for.
ing America as a weatherman. He was also seen on a seg- Retrieved June 25, 2010.
ment of World News with Diane Sawyer on January 4, [6] "Advocate.com". http://www.advocate.com/
2010. News/Daily_News/2011/01/28/
He worked at WPSD-TV in Paducah, Kentucky, and Gay_Newscasters_Book_Makes_Waves/. Retrieved
WJKS (now WCWJ) in Jacksonville, Florida. On WABC-TV, January 29, 2011.
he had helmed the weekday weather forecasts (5, 6 and
Persondata
11 p.m.) since 1988, adding the latter two newscasts fol-
lowing Storm Field’s departure from the station. In Au- Name Champion, Sam
gust 2006 Good Morning America announced that Champi- Alternative names Champion, Samuel James
on was named to his current positions with GMA and ABC Short description American television personality
News, effective September 5, 2006.[2]
Date of birth August 13, 1961
Champion is not a meteorologist, but gained weather
forecasting knowledge through his broadcast work. He Place of birth Paducah, Kentucky, U.S.
has occasionally appeared on Live with Regis and Kelly, the Date of death
daily talk show produced by WABC-TV, and CNN’s Larry Place of death
King Live. He often begins his 30-second weathercasts by
saying "Let’s get to the boards." His catchphrase during
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