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Weather forecaster Sam Champion is joining New York’s WABC-TV as weather anchor for weekday morning and noon broadcasts, the station said today. Champion, whose history with ABC locally and nationally goes back to 1988 and was interrupted by a 2013-16 stint at the Weather Channel, will kick off his latest gig with New…

Sam Champion will say so-long to The Weather  Channel in just a few hours, ending his three-year run with the network. Champion’s departure is no surprise; his contract with the Atlanta-based network was expiring and he was not expected to re-up. "Sam Champion has decided to leave The Weather Channel at the end of…

Former Good Morning America weather vet Sam Champion is returning to the show next week on January 11 to fill in for ABC News’ Chief Meteorologist Ginger Zee as part of Zee’s maternity leave, ABC announced today. Senior Meteorologist Rob Marciano will be filling in for Zee for the remainder of her leave. After seven…

Weather Channel told staffers this morning it’s moving away from “non-weather” original programming,  re-focusing mornings on weather which, yes means the end of Sam Champion’s morning show as he turns his focus to primetime. Al Roker’s Wake Up With Al is gone with the wind as the company moves weekday daytime…

The Weather Channel said meteorologist Jim Cantore will join Sam Champion as co-host of AMHQ, the network's morning show that is now expanding to the weekends beginning January 31 hosted by Kait Parker and Reynolds Wolf. Cantore’s gig starts January 26, and Weather Channel in its release promised he won’t be tethered…

The two former GMA-ers talked about Elliott’s NBC Sports debut covering Kentucky…

“On Friday, May 2nd, former Good Morning America colleagues Josh Elliott and Sam Champion will reunite for the first time live on air from The Kentucky Derby,”  The Weather Channel boasted cheekily today. Upping the cheek, the channel said Elliott will join Champion at 9 AM ET from Churchill Downs live during its…

Day 2 of America’s Morning Headquarters slipped compared to Day 1, which itself was a drop in each of its hours from the network’s prior four-week average. Sam Champion‘s new Weather Channel program lobbed 186,000 viewers from 7-10 AM Tuesday, 59,000 of them in the news demo. In overall audience, the show’s second…

Sam Champion’s Weather Channel show America’s Morning Headquarters opened to a cloudy future Monday. An average of 207,000 total viewers (64,000 in the news demo) caught Champion’s unveiling from 7-10 AM ET. That’s a 12% decline in total viewers compared with the network’s prior four-week average in the block of time…

If you guessed Sam Champion‘s new The Weather Channel show was going to be called AMHQ — you win! Champion himself did the unveiling, this morning, via Twitter. Now it can be told! AMHQ! The new @weatherchannel morning show! @SamChampion @twcMariaLaRosa @mikebettes pic.twitter.com/3TdwjUigxb — Sam Champion…

A major storm rained down on Winter TV Press Tour 2014 this morning when The Weather Channel took the stage to blast DirectTV over their current carriage dispute. In anticipation of the channel’s appearance before a couple hundred journalists at the tour, it  issued an ominous campaign late last night warning viewers…

ABC's ratings leader Good Morning America muddled through its first morning after news broke of the first successful raid on its popular on-air team. Weatherman Sam Champion is leaving tomorrow, to become managing editor, a producer, and anchor of a new flagship morning show at The Weather Channel. Not coincidentally…