| Show The Herald JournalCache Sunday January 5 It's 6:20 pm on New Year’s Eve Time for the weather evening news Weatherman Bob Welti portion of flannel and news anchor Dick Nourse are exchanging jokes about a recent break in the weather “How can you can this balmy?" chides Nourse “My idea of balmy is temperatures in the 90s and lying on a California fs beach" 1986-- 13 and the 13th TV station in the entire country" said Welti “Channel 5 came a few months later" Television was in its infancy and weather reporting had not yet been Invented when Danny Ranger the station's program director asked for a volunteer to be the station's weatherman “We had none of the fancy stuff we have today: no computer graphics upper air charts or radar" Welti recalls “All I had was a surface map and I’d draw in fronts and temperatures on it in a chalk-tal-k setting” was the fact that there was no blueprint Equally slsrming himuglf-Welfew good llckf of how a TV weatherman should act Welti had to be a a graduate of Utah State University is living proof and use his own ingenuity that a start in Cache Valley can help you make it in the big “When I asked the program director what I was to do he C5e and Nourse have been 'bantering on the air for two looked back at me and said: 'You’re the weatherman you since 1964 Welti came figure it out"’ said Welti decades Nourse has been at KSL-TIn 1965 Welti and James moved over to Channel 5 more than a year later after a successful stay at “When Paul and I were at Channel 4 it was the No 1 news Channel 4 Salt Lake City's first television station Welti Nourse and sportscaster Paul James form one of the station and Channel 5 was a poor third" said Welti “After news teams anywhere longest-runnin- g Paul and I switched Channel 5 took over the top spot “That fact has received quite a bit of notoriety lately" said “I drat mean to be bragging but the record books prove Welti “United Press International did the most recent story it" Welti said “It gave our egos a boost to have the ratings follow us over like that" We told them quite frankly KSL has been good to us” He described his career from the first minute he stepped in On the set the members of the threesome take frequent endure front of a microphone until he got the weatherman’s job in friendly digs at each other And their friendships Salt I ike as one which has benefited from “sheer luck" beyond the camera’s eye “We are the best of friends” said Welti “I consider Dick His first job a board shift at KVNU was a gift of fate he said and Paul my very best friends” “I was singing bass in the Logan High School choir and a Welti is the dean of Utah television weathercasters His 1949 nearly preceded the arrival friend (Dick Barber) who had worked out at KVNU for good in TV into forecasting entry old Reed Bullen called up and said: 'Welti get out here”' of television itself in the Intermountain region ' “Back then Channel 4 was experimental station W6SIS the Continued on page If first TV station between the Mississippi and the West Coast “Thirty-si- x degrees is balmy after all those sub-ier- o ti self-styli-st V 15-ye- ar |
