Frank Field (meteorologist)

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Dr. Frank Field on WWOR in 2005.

Dr. Franklyn Field (born 1923) is a well known and loved television personality and meteorologist who has been on TV in New York City for decades. His reporting on Science and health, has proven valuable to the NYC TV broadcasting area. He was one of the first to report the Heimlich Maneuver to aid food choking victims and help people escape burning houses. His reports have been credited with saving many lives.

Dr. Field carries the Seal of Approval of the American Meteorological Society.

1 History
2 Health and Science
3 Dr. Field's Children
4 The Holocaust
5 Trivia
6 External links

[edit] History

He began his career at WNBC-TV in 1957, staying there for over 25 years. He was friends with Johnny Carson and was a guest on The Tonight Show several times. Johnny Carson visited Dr. Field in the WNBC studios during the news and was reprimanded for it because of the seriousness of the news back then.^{[citation needed]}

On August 12, 1984, Dr. Field moved to rival WCBS-TV, where he worked for 11 years. Later, he moved over to WNYW-TV for two years before largely ending his career at WWOR-TV, though he still fills in there on weekends.

[edit] Health and Science

Dr. Field was also well known for his acclaimed Science reports on new technology and medicines. In the 1970s and 1980s, Dr. Field hosted a nationally-syndicated program on health originating from WNBC, called Health Field. Dr. Field now anchors a similar health news program on WLNY for the North Shore Long Island Jewish Health System, called Medical Update.

[edit] Dr. Field's Children

Dr. Field's son, Storm was the chief meteorologist at WWOR before being dismised in January 2007. Storm Field presented a special in 2003 that highlighted his father's career.

Dr. Field's daughter, Allison, was a meterologist for WCBS-TV. She also appeared in a few movies, playing reporters or newscasters. She was also a spokesperson for Krups food processors.

[edit] The Holocaust

Most of Dr Field's family was killed in the Holocaust in Germany during Hitlers reign of horrors. Dr Field went back with WCBS TV to see what was left and found that the Nazi's had made roads out of Jewish tombstones. Only the Dr Field's family who fled to America survived. It was a moving tragedy to see that over half of his cousins died in deathcamps.

[edit] Trivia

Dr. Field graduated university with a medical doctorate in ophthalmology, not weather. This made him an ideal Health and Science reporter for almost every station he worked at.