It is an end to a broadcasting era.
Willard Scott, 81, will retire after more than a lifetime on television.
The weatherman whom nearly everyone knows will officially call it a career next Tuesday, his co-workers announced Friday morning on the "Today Show."
He was with the show for 35 years, and with NBC for 65 years, according his official biography on Today.com.
Scott semi-retired and stepped down as "Today's" weather forecaster in 1996 and was replaced by Al Roker, USA Today reported.
Scott began his storied career at WRC in 1950, the NBC station in Washington, D.C., as a page. He was also a weekend disc jockey for a D.C. radio station.
Scott started his television weather career in Washington, D.C. at WRC in 1969. He became the "Today Show's" weatherman in 1980.
He also co-anchored the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade for NBC from 1987 through 1997.
Scott was the first Ronald McDonald featured in television commercials in 1963.
He is probably best known now for his celebration wishes for people who reach their 100th birthdays.
The tradition, now sponsored by Smuckers, started in 1983 when a viewer asked him to wish his mother a happy 100th birthday on air.
There was no word on whether the birthdays wishes will continue after Scott retires.
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