Sonny Elliot - TVSpy http://www.mediabistro.com/tvspy And Now The News... About Local News Copyright 2013 Tue, 21 May 2013 21:26:51 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 Legendary Detroit Weatherman Sonny Eliot Dies at 91 Sonny Eliot, the legendary Detroit weatherman whose career in television and radio spanned over 60 years has died.  He was 91.

Eliot was best known for his weather forecasts which were more performance than informational. Famous for combining words to describe the weather like “snog” for snow and fog, he will also be remembered for his one-liners like, “Its colder than a former wife’s hello.”

During World War II, Eliot was a B-24 bomber pilot who was shot down over Germany and spent 18 months in a prisoner of war camp.  Two years after the war ended, the Michigan Broadcaster’s Hall of Fame weatherman began his broadcasting career after performing a bit part in a local variety show produced by WWJ (now NBC affiliate WDIV).

In 1950, he got a job as a weathercaster for Detroit radio station WWJ, a job he kept until his retirement in 2010.

After the jump you can see the many video tributes to Eliot from the local TV stations.  Click here for a string of twitter postings from friends and colleagues of Eliot. continued…

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]]> Kevin Eck http://www.mediabistro.com/tvspy/legendary-detroit-weatherman-sonny-eliot-dies-at-91_b69909#disqus_thread http://www.mediabistro.com/tvspy/legendary-detroit-weatherman-sonny-eliot-dies-at-91_b69909 http://www.mediabistro.com/tvspy/?p=69909 Fri, 16 Nov 2012 15:28:28 +0000