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7/23: Fox 5’s new ‘Road Warrior,’ weekend weather gal
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Fox 5 has stayed internal to find a replacement for its “Good Day Atlanta” “Road Warrior.” Mark Hyman, a former WSB-TV reporter, who has been at WAGA-TV since 2004 has gotten the job, replacing Bret Martin, who left under murky circumstances in early June. The Road Warrior handles quirky, human-interest stories in the morning and under Martin, was the “American Idol” expert.
Here’s Hyman’s bio.
WAGA-TV also has hired a new weekend meteorologist: Joanne Feldman. Orelon Sydney, who had been doing weekends, was a free-lance fill in and will still pop in on Fox 5 on occasion.
Here are excerpts from her bio from her old TV station in Charlotte:
She grew up in Marietta and is a magna cum laude graduate of the University of Georgia with a bachelor of science degree in Geography with an emphasis on Meteorology, Climatology, and Cartography. While attending UGA, she was named Phi Beta Kappa and worked in the university’s Climate Research Lab studying the climatology of convective windstorms. She also worked behind the scenes at the Weather Channel.
She headed north for the highly-regarded graduate program in Meteorology at Penn State University - which she attended on a scholarship from the American Meteorological Society.
Her broadcasting career began when she was one of two graduate students selected to present weathercasts on the University’s daily weather magazine, “Weather World”. She was then offered a job as the weekend meteorologist at KMPH in Fresno, California.
She remained in Fresno to work at KFSN, the ABC-owned station, as the weekend meteorologist. But her duties soon expanded to include anchoring the news for the station’s top-rated morning show. She then moved to WTVD-TV in Charlotte.
In her spare time, she can be found sharing her fascination with weather in Triangle classrooms, at one of the many area ice rinks attempting to perfect a toe loop or a camel spin (no double Axels just yet), in a ballet class, on the driving range with her son, or out jogging with her baby girl in tow.
Joanne and her husband, Chris, are the very proud parents of Cameron, born in 1997, and daughter, Carys (pronounced Care-iss), born in 2005.
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By Rodney Headed Ho
July 23, 2007 1:02 PM | Link to this
This new weatehr person…..Will she falsely report a rain fall shortage just like the other so called experts?
By Law Dawg
July 23, 2007 2:15 PM | Link to this
Rodney, does your hand hurt with all the work you did copying Joanne Feldman’s bio and putting it in your blog?
By KIm
August 1, 2007 4:41 PM | Link to this
Will Joanne Feldman follow the lead of other meteorologists should they be forecasting incorrectly? No. Here in Raleigh, NC, Joanne’s weather forecasting knowledge and presentation were so good that I switched from the local CBS weather team (who all have lots of experience and know-how) to the local ABC affiliate. Joanne called the weather as she saw it, and did not necessarily “follow the pack.” She is, in my opinion, a gifted weather scientist, and our loss will surely be your gain! Good luck, Joanne!!