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When I looked out at the April snow covering my magnolias Wednesday, and bending over my maple sapling like a Charlie Brown tree, the thought occurred to me: How would Tim Hedrick explain this?
Hedrick, who died five years ago today at age 55, could explain anything about the weather in a simple, understandable and often entertaining way. That s what made him arguably the most popular Cincinnati TV personality in my 35 years of writing about TV.
Tim Hedrick in 1990.
Credit WKRC-TV
WKRC-TV dubbed him The Weather Authority, and for most of us, he was. When severe – or just weird – weather blew through Greater Cincinnati and Northern Kentucky, most of us turned to Doppler Tim, as I wrote in my tribute when he died, Doppler Tim Hedrick Was More Than Our Weather Authority.
. Born Allen Duaine Pruett in Texas, Fox and Chris O Brien hosted the hugely popular morning show on WKRQ-FM in the 1970s and 80s, and hosted country music on WUBE-FM in the 1990s.
Other local deaths include UC basketball analyst Chuck Machock; radio personalities Laura Powell, Bob Nave, Bill Ridenour, Larry Thomas, Geoff Nimmo, Ron Britain and Vic Henley; Joe Morgan, the Reds Hall of Famer turned TV analyst for Reds TV and ESPN
Sunday Night Baseball; Bengals coach and NFL analyst Sam Wyche; movie producer/distributor Phil Borak; former Enquirer writers Sara Pearce and Lonnie Wheeler; Blue Wisp saxophonist Joe Gaudio; bandleader Jerry Conrad; and WLWT-TV engineer Ron Whitaker.