Good Morning America - "John Coleman Weather From Chicago" - WLS-TV (1978)

Here's a weather report from within the early years of Good Morning America as aired over WLS Channel 7, from the station's then-weatherman John Coleman. (He would ultimately devote himself full-time to the show for a four-year period beginning in 1979, leaving WLS in the process.) He starts off with the temperature reading for Andrews Air Force Base where President Carter is about to embark on a trip of South America, then shows a live clip of Air Force One getting ready to depart, the forecast for across the Atlantic over which he will be flying, then for Caracas, Venezuela which will be his first stopover; then with his pull-out map, reads the temperatures for various parts of the mainland U.S (including the weather for his home base) and shows Eastern and Western satellite maps of the nation as of the time period mentioned, before going onto the forecast for the country as a whole ("Lots of Sunshine" but with scattered precipitation in certain parts and "Some Icy Spots" in others), and highs ranging from 57 degrees in New York City to 80 in Grapevine, Texas - and 55 in Chicago. With that, he closes his forecast. Commercial: The Fishing Machine (available at Sears, JCPenney, Montgomery Ward, Eckerd Drugs and other fine stores) Guest host Jim McKay (with guest co-host Joan Lunden, then of Eyewitness News on sister station WABC Channel 7 in New York City - and later a regular co-host of GMA from 1980 to 1997) previews next day's edition with such features as a look at upcoming major league baseball season with profiles of the Yankees and Dodgers, the hazards and potentials of LNG (liquified natural gas), and Joan previews next hour with interviews with Richard Burton and John Travolta; segment ends with clip of Air Force One taking off and GMA bumper at top right. Incomplete promo for Soap for 9:30 / 8:30 Central and Mountain (tape runs out before the end) (voiceover by George Ansbro(?)) This aired on local Chicago TV on Tuesday, March 28th 1978 from approximately 6:54am to 6:58am. This footage was donated to The Museum of Classic Chicago Television as part of The Mike and Britta Fayette Collection. About The Museum of Classic Chicago Television: The Museum of Classic Chicago Television's primary mission is the preservation and display of off-air, early home videotape recordings (70s and early 80s, primarily) recorded off of any and all Chicago TV channels; footage which would likely be lost if not sought out and preserved digitally. Even though (mostly) short clips are displayed here, we preserve the entire broadcasts in our archives - the complete programs with breaks (or however much is present on the tape), for historical purposes. For information on how to help in our mission, to donate or lend tapes to be converted to DVD, and to view more of the 4,700+ (and counting) video clips available for viewing in our online archive, please visit us at: http://www.fuzzymemories.tv/index.php?contentload=donate