South Florida’s first weatherman has been hospitalized at Cedar Medical Center suffering from cancer. He has been ill for several weeks, according to a tipster Weaver had hip replacement surgery last Thursday but has not fully recovered.
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TV weatherman Weaver hospitalized with cancer
Bob Weaver, Miami’s first TV weatherman, has been hospitalized at Cedars Medical Center, suffering from cancer. Weaver, 78, has been seriously ill for several weeks, according to professional acquaintances.
Weaver joined WTVJ (then Channel 4), Miami’s first TV station, shortly after graduating from the University of Miami in 1949. He followed his friend and fellow UM graduate Ralph Renick, who had become the station’s original news anchor.
Weaver initially was a jack of all trades at the station, pasting pictures on cardboard to be displayed on screen as well as reading commercials and station identifications before becoming the weather forecaster. He stayed with WTVJ for more than 50 years before going into semi-retirement three years ago.
A nice man, but that weather bird…please, the bird should have gotten cancer, his feathers fallen off and died, but NOT Bob
I hope he gets well soon 🙁
Sadly, Bob Weaver passed away today, according to NBC6.
Recovering from a Tonsilectomy in 1949 the hospital tv was a real novelity. Bob Weaver was the first weather caster I had ever seen. He was always a Prince of a Man, on air and in person. Very bright, very kind, and a pioneer in his field. God Bless his family.