Jack Hanson, who was a colourful mainstay of San Francisco-area TV for six a long time died Sunday morning, in response to the Nationwide Academy of Tv Arts and Sciences Bay Space chapter. He was 91.
Hanson labored on a large swath of space retailers together with KRON, KPIX, KTVU, KGO-TV and the Cable Well being Community. He additionally hosted Comcast Newsmakers, a information interview present on CNN Headline Information.
Hanson obtained his begin within the mailroom at KPIX within the Nineteen Fifties. He quickly turned a stage supervisor and moved to KRON-TV, engaged on stay exhibits comparable to NBC’s Broad, Broad World.
Within the Nineteen Sixties, Hanson hosted his personal present, Jack’s Place, again at KPIX. On it, he interviewed celebrities and would additionally draw cartoons. The latter turned his trademark. Later, as a weatherman on KGO-TV, Hanson would create cartoons on the climate map to convey every phase to life.
Additionally on KGO-TV, he co-hosted a morning present, AM San Francisco, from 1977 to 1982. Periodically, he would fill in on KABC-TV’s AM Los Angeles and Mid-Morning Los Angeles.
The San Francisco/Northern California Chapter of The Nationwide Academy of Tv Arts & Sciences inducted him in 2000.
