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
Television news in the United States News". CBS Television also featured public affairs programs such as "Longines Chronoscope" which featured newsworthy public figures, and which ran from June 1951 to April 1955 at 11pm ET. The DuMont Television Network had "The Walter Compton News" (June 1947 – 1948), "I.N.S. Telenews" and "Camera Headlines" (1948–1949), and "DuMont Evening News" (September 1954-1 April 1955). However, Edward R. Murrow is widely regarded as the most important figure in the early days of U.S. television news. On his weekly news show "See It Now" on CBS, Murrow presented live reports from journalists on both the east and west coasts of