Who was Dr Frank Field? Learn all there is to know who the legendary meteorologist was.
Frank Field, a longtime meteorologist and health reporter at NBC’s New York station WNBC-TV, has died. He was 100. Field died Saturday in Florida, according to WNBC, where he spent 25 years of his career.
Field attended Brown University and MIT, where he learned meteorology, and later served as an Army Air Force meteorology officer in the European theater during World War II. Additionally, he earned a degree in geology at Brooklyn College, a bachelor’s degree in optometry at Columbia University and a doctorate on the faculty of Albert Einstein College of Medicine.
Field began his meteorology career at WNBC in 1958. There, he gained national attention when, according to WNBC, “Johnny Carson decided needling ‘NBC’s crack meteorologist’ would be good fun and he became a regular guest on The Tonight Show. Field matched wits with the popular comedian, somehow managing to maintain his dignity and air of authority.”
Field also had fun taking jabs back at Carson during his 11 p.m. news broadcast, including skewering a cut-out figure of the host with his prop pointer during his weather report. “He may have given NBC management ulcers, but the viewers loved it,” WNBC noted. At WNBC, Field also put his medical background to use, adding health and science reporting to his duties. In 1983, he garnered attention by covering an entire kidney transplant live — “from first incision to final suture” — during a news broadcast.
Additionally, Field is credited with publicizing the Heimlich maneuver before it was widely embraced by the medical community.
According to The New York Times, Field was once dining with a friend, CBS sportscaster Warner Wolf, when a piece of meat became stuck in his throat. Wolf saved Field by using the Heimlich maneuver after having seen Field demonstrate it on TV.
After leaving WNBC, Field joined rival New York station WCBS and ended his television career at WWOR in 2004.
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