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266: 184:, marking the first time the two had worked together. In anticipation of his debut, WCBS shot a series of commercials with Storm and Frank Field that used puns for both meteorologists' names. The younger Field remained with WCBS until 1997, succeeding Irv "Mr. G" Gikofsky as the station's chief meteorologist and then moving to WCBS' morning newscast toward the end of his time there. 140:
Field became the permanent forecaster on November 29, 1976, as a replacement for the suspended Antoine, who had been dismissed after an inappropriate comment concerning a rape story five days earlier. Field's primary responsibilities were the 6:00 PM and 11:00 PM newscasts, with other forecasters
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in 1997, where he reported on the station's 10 PM newscast and served as WWOR's chief meteorologist. During his tenure he got a second chance to work with his father, as Dr. Frank Field was hired by WWOR as a weekend weathercaster in the early 2000s before retiring.
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Field was given the nickname "Storm" by his parents as a baby, as a result of being very active while still in his mother's womb (which led a doctor to refer to him as a "stormy child"), as well as being born on a stormy night on
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took over the newscast, and subbed off and on until 1984. He left WABC in 1991 and was replaced by Sam Champion.
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was ill. Field did the weekend weather broadcasts as well as the 11:00 PM weather broadcast on weekdays.
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Field was let go by WWOR in 2007 after ten years due to cutbacks at both WWOR and its sister station,
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In addition to his weather duties, in 1981 Field became the anchor of the recently launched 5:00 PM
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program. Hired by the station in March 1976, he first appeared on television when covering
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After taking time off, on August 24, 1992, Field joined his father at
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media market. He followed his father, longtime New York weatherman
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Storm Field's first foray into weather-casting came as part of
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Field's third and last weather position brought him to
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Frank Field
meteorologist
New York
Frank Field
Thanksgiving Day
WABC-TV
Eyewitness News
Hurricane Belle
Tex Antoine
Ira Joe Fisher
Sam Champion
Jimmy Fink
WPLJ
Kaity Tong
Tom Snyder
WCBS-TV
WWOR-TV
WNYW
Audrey Puente
Westchester County, New York



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