Click for Dave Letterman on WNAP Radio (on Griff’s show, for you Indy long-timers).
Also: a friend passed on this YouTube link of a “20/20” story from 1986 about tv weathercasters. There’s a few moments with Letterman in front of the Channel 13 weather board, and Sajak at WSM Nashville. Plus: an weather audition tape with The Thigh Master herself. (Scroll down for Dave’s first network tv appearance.)
A section on Minneapolis tv weather gives hints of the still-to-come “tracking/alerting/hyping” era of local tv weather. The Sajak & Letterman clips go back to the 1970’s. If you’re under the age of 30 watching this, it might as well be the 1870’s.
BTW: Now that you’ve seen Letterman doing weather, here’s some sports. Nobody ever mentions that his first “network” appearance was on ABC’s 1971 Indy 500 telecast. (Channel 13 was an ABC affiliate then.) Here’s his big show biz break, although Jim McKay brings him on with the wrong name.
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