Herman S. "Steve" Baskerville (b. 1950 in
Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania) is an American television
weather presenter.
He joined
WBBM-TV in
Chicago in September 1987 as weekend weatherman and was the station's primary weekday forecaster from July 1988 to December 2017. Prior to that, he was the weather anchor for ''
CBS This Morning'' from 1984 to 1987. Previously, he had worked at
KYW-TV
KYW-TV (channel 3) is a television station in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, airing programming from the CBS network. It is owned and operated by the network's CBS News and Stations division alongside CW affiliate WPSG (channel 57 ...
in
Philadelphia.
A Philadelphia native, Baskerville is an alumnus of
Temple University and holds a Certificate in Broadcast Meteorology from
Mississippi State University
Mississippi State University for Agriculture and Applied Science, commonly known as Mississippi State University (MSU), is a public land-grant research university adjacent to Starkville, Mississippi. It is classified among "R1: Doctoral Unive ...
.
The History Makers: "STEVE BASKERVILLE"
retrieved September 23, 2017
On November 28, 2017, Baskerville announced his retirement from television on December 22 of that year. He had spent about 30 years at WBBM-TV.
References
External links
CBS 2 Bio
Living people
Television meteorologists from Chicago
1950 births
Television personalities from Philadelphia
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