Frank Field (meteorologist)
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Dr. Franklyn Field (born 1923) is a 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.[1]
Dr. Field carries the Seal of Approval of the American Meteorological Society.
Field was a resident of Montclair, New Jersey, before retiring to Boca Raton, Florida.[2]
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[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.
[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 (b. 1949) was the chief meteorologist at WWOR before being dismissed in January 2007. He had previously worked at WABC-TV as meteorologist from 1976 to 1990, also serving as anchor of their 5:00 P.M. newscast from 1981 to 1983. Storm Field presented a special in 2003 that highlighted his father's career.
Dr. Field's daughter, Allison, was a meteorologist 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 Hitler's reign of horrors. Dr. Field went back with WCBS to see what was left and found that the Nazis had made roads out of Jewish tombstones. Only Dr. Field's family who fled to America survived. Over half of his cousins had died in deathcamps.
[edit] Trivia
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Dr. Field graduated university with a medical doctorate in optometry, not weather. This made him an ideal Health and Science reporter for almost every station he worked at.
[edit] References
- ^ Anderson, Susan Heller; and Dunlap, David W. " NEW YORK DAY BY DAY; THE HEIMLICH MANEUVER SAVES A PROPONENT", The New York Times, December 14, 1985. Accessed June 4, 2008.
- ^ "WEATHERING 'RETIREMENT'", New York Daily News, October 30, 2006. Accessed June 4, 2008. "The man who once had a higher Q-rating, or popularity score, than famed newsman Walter Cronkite has officially retired to Boca Raton, Fla., but maintains a house in Montclair, N.J."
