'Our People,' premiered one week after the assassination of Dr. While still piloting aircrafts, Tilmon set another precedent by hosting the first live weekly magazine show developed for and by African Americans.
Tilmon spent twenty-nine years with American Airlines before retiring his talent earned him the Captain’s Chair Award from American Airlines inspired United Airlines to grant him the title of honorary captain and compelled the FAA to name an aviator’s navigation point after him. Army to American Airlines in 1965, where he became the airline’s third African American commercial pilot and the country’s fifth. Tilmon’s interest in flying carried him from the U.S. degree in music from Lincoln University in Missouri, and served in the United States Army Corps of Engineers for eight years, earning the rank of captain. He is a member of the Beta chapter of Iota Phi Theta fraternity.Jim Tilmon, aviation expert, local Emmy-winning newscaster, and accomplished musician, was born on July 31, 1934, in Guthrie, Oklahoma. He also returned on November 19, 2015, to celebrate the 40th Anniversary of Good Morning America. In June, 2014, Christian temporarily returned to the set of Good Morning America as a substitute weather forecaster while Ginger Zee was having her wedding. In 2006, he began hosting the popular afternoon show in San Francisco, The View from the Bay.
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Ĭhristian has also hosted the PBS train series Tracks Ahead since 1997. He was host of HGTV's Spencer Christian's Wine Cellar from 1995 to 1999. Ĭhristian left Good Morning America at the end of 1998 and began doing weather forecasts at KGO-TV in San Francisco, California in January 1999, a position he holds to this day. He describes his addiction and his recovery in his 2018 book, You Bet Your Life: How I Survived Jim Crow Racism, Hurricane Chasing, and Gambling.
įrom 1992 to 1993, Christian was also seen on the BET cable network as the host of the music game show Triple Threat.įor decades, Christian had a serious gambling addiction.
In addition, he occasionally traveled throughout the United States and abroad, reporting on a wide range of topics from current events to human interest stories. In August 1986, Christian joined Good Morning America as their weather forecaster. His first stint as a weatherman came in 1975, in Baltimore, Maryland, when he was hired by news director Ron Kershaw at WBAL-TV to join the station's Action News team which included Sue Simmons, Mike Hambrick, Ron Smith, Curt Anderson and Joe Krebs.įrom there, Christian moved to New York City's WABC-TV, where he served as a general assignment reporter, weatherman and sportscaster for Eyewitness News from 1977 to 1986. He began his broadcasting career at WWBT in Richmond, Virginia as a news reporter, covering state and local politics, the public school system, and landmark cases in the Fourth US Circuit Court of Appeals. Christian is also the author of several children's books.Ĭhristian was born in Newport News, Virginia in 1947. He currently is the weather forecaster for ABC-owned KGO-TV in San Francisco. Spencer Christian (born July 23, 1947) is an American television broadcaster, best known as the former weather forecaster for ABC's Good Morning America from 1986 to 1998.
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