Weather forecasting G. Harold Noyes in 1931. The world's first televised weather forecasts, including the use of weather maps, were experimentally broadcast by the BBC in 1936. This was brought into practice in 1949 after World War II. George Cowling gave the first weather forecast while being televised in front of the map in 1954. In America, experimental television forecasts were made by James C Fidler in Cincinnati in either 1940 or 1947 on the DuMont Television Network. In the late 1970s and early 80s, John Coleman, the first weatherman on ABC-TV's Good Morning America, pioneered the use of on-screen weather satellite
Robin Cowling successive Cup Final wins in 1979-80-81 and was capped by the Barbarians. He retired at the end of the 1980-81 season. Robin Cowling has been on the Exeter Chiefs, coaching staff since 1997, apart from two years with Cornish Pirates. When Don Rutherford was RFU Technical Director, he asked Cowling to run a pilot academy scheme in the South West and he has been involved in academy rugby from the outset of the professional game. As team manager and talent scout, he has contributed substantially to Exeter Chiefs’ current success. Robin Cowling Robin James Cowling (born 24 March 1944) is