Tank McNamara by Bill Hinds for February 05, 2010

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    yyyguy  almost 15 years ago

    isn’t that how Letterman got his start?

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    yyyguy  almost 15 years ago

    come to think of it, the local weatherman when i was a kid also hosted a kid’s cartoon show with puppets in it. does anyone from the Niagara Frontier remember “Commander Tom” on WKBW?

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    fritzoid Premium Member almost 15 years ago

    I think Letterman broadcast the weather (in Indianapolis, where he worked alongside Jane Pauley), but wasn’t an actual meteorologist. He came to the job through the show biz door, not the science door…

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    andymeijers  almost 15 years ago

    Letterman and Pauley were on different stations, and I’m not sure their medium-market careers overlapped. I was a kid in the area at the time, and I remember her, but don’t recall ever seeing him.

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    fritzoid Premium Member almost 15 years ago

    Ah, my mistake. My understanding is that they DID know each other, back in the day…

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