Fritz Coleman
Fritz Coleman is a retired weathercaster, who worked for NBC Channel 4 in Los Angeles, California from 1982 to 2020.Background
After he grew up in Radnor, Pennsylvania, he attended Salem University in West Virginia and Temple University in Philadelphia where he studied radio, television, and film. Like many popular weather anchors, he serves as a weather reporter rather than a meteorologist as he doesn't have a degree in meteorology.
He worked as a comedian and disc jockey for several years and as a radio personality at WBEN and later WKBW in Buffalo, New York. He left Buffalo for Los Angeles in 1980 to work as a stand-up comic. In 1982 he began work as weekend weatherman at KNBC and became the weekday weatherman in 1984.
He has written and performed two one-man theater acts, titled The Reception and It's Me! Dad! He received the 2004 EMA Community Service Award for his involvement with KNBC's 4 Our Planet, a children's program. He appeared in a supporting role in one of Raymond Burr's last Perry Mason television films, The Case of the Telltale Talk Show Host, in 1993.
He received a "thanks" credit on the film ', an "alternate film" companion to '.
From 2009 to 2011, Coleman also did the weekday weather for San Diego's NBC affiliate, KNSD.
On June 17, 2020, Coleman announced that he would retire on Friday, June 26 after almost 40 years at KNBC.
