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How Chuck Collins Found His Calling in Weather
Clip: Season 7 Episode 2 | 54sVideo has Closed Captions
Chuck Collins recalls how a radio career unexpectedly led him to television weather.
Chuck Collins recalls working in radio at WMBD when an opening for a Sunday television weathercast changed the direction of his career. After getting his first experience in front of the green screen, he was hooked and eventually pursued formal meteorology training.
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Consider This with Christine Zak Edmonds is a local public television program presented by WTVP
Consider This with Christine Zak Edmonds
How Chuck Collins Found His Calling in Weather
Clip: Season 7 Episode 2 | 54sVideo has Closed Captions
Chuck Collins recalls working in radio at WMBD when an opening for a Sunday television weathercast changed the direction of his career. After getting his first experience in front of the green screen, he was hooked and eventually pursued formal meteorology training.
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Learn Moreabout PBS online sponsorshipWhat made you get involved in, excited about weather?
- I mean, excited about weather.
Yeah.
It was when I was at WMBD; at that time it was AM, FM, and TV all in the same building.
- Right on University.
- Right.
Yeah.
So I was doing news for the AM side of things.
Really never thought about TV although we were all in the same newsroom together.
It was television, radio, and newsroom.
And I'd always loved weather, but I never really had thought that much about getting into TV because I was a long-haired bearded radio guy, you know?
And then Duane Wallace, the news director at the time, said, "I know you like weather, love weather.
We have an opening on Sunday nights on the TV side, you know, one weather cast a week.
We need somebody to do that.
You want to give it a try?"
So I got myself in front of the green screen, did it and practiced.
Got bitten by the bug, and I've been doing weather ever since.
- But you weren't a meteorologist to start with.
Why Severe Weather Demands a Meteorologist’s Full Attention
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Clip: S7 Ep2 | 1m 10s | Chuck Collins explains the intensity of covering severe weather in Central Illinois. (1m 10s)
Why Weather Forecasts Are More Accurate Than Ever
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Clip: S7 Ep2 | 1m 9s | Chuck Collins explains how technology has dramatically improved weather forecasting. (1m 9s)
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