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Bob becker weatherman3/15/2024 The production manager asked him if he could "be funny."Īt the same time the radio stations morning disc jockey had a "green room" for announcers. He stayed there from 1959 through 1965.Ī friend of his became the production manager of the CBS affiliate in Cleveland - WJW - and let Bob know they were looking for a full time weatherman here.Īt the time the weather personalities were Dick Goddard, Don Webster and Howard Hoffman, all of whom did a very serious forecast. After only a year a spot opened up doing part time weather on the weekends at a Kansas City television station. He then went to the NBC radio affiliate in Kansas City. He stayed there for 2 years but never actually did the sports. Mechanical problems caused Bob to keep his future boss waiting for an hour and a half, but the audition went well and he got the job. He was still with the Air National Guard and was able to fly a jet to Oklahoma for the audition. "I knew the difference between Babe Ruth and Hank Aaron, but not much else." Three weeks before graduation he received a call from someone in Oklahoma asking him to come and replace their Sports Reporter. They started dating and three months later they were engaged.īob 'Hoolihan' Wells and wife Barb at the Green Parrot Even though they were both very shy and normally would not have spoken to each other - they did. Two years later he was working in the Hayloft Summer Theaters in a suburb of Lincoln, Nebraska.īob had a role in the "Caine Mutiny Court Martial." Barb was sitting up in the balcony with other owners, and was acting as co-producer. A friend attempted to fix them up, but he had just five minutes to pull records for the next hour of his show, and didn't have time to talk with her. While working at a local radio station Bob met his future wife Barb. He was accepted into the Air National Guard and was trained as a pilot. He is an alumnus of the University of Nebraska where he was in the ROTC program. His brother, who lives in Omaha, has sixteen children, 13 of which are adopted! That's when and where Bob Wells, soon to be our beloved Hoolihan the Weatherman, was born. Hoolihan the Weatherman |Bob Wells | Cleveland Seniors Profile
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