Mike Randall (entertainer)
| Mike Randall | |
|---|---|
| Born |
Michael E. Randall November 2, 1953 United States |
| Occupation | Meteorologist, actor |
Michael E. "Mike" Randall (born November 2, 1953) is an American actor, meteorologist and reporter from Buffalo, New York. He is best known within his native Western New York for his long run on WKBW-TV, where he has been an on-air personality since 1983 and was the chief meteorologist from 1999 to 2013, and outside Western New York for his stage shows.
Randall holds seals of approval from the National Weather Association (seal #9708542, which he has held since at least the early 1990s) and the American Meteorological Society (seal #1558, which he earned some time in the 2000s). Randall was the first and, until one-time Randall protege Andy Parker also earned his NWA seal, the only television meteorologist in Western New York to carry the NWA seal. His meteorology education comes from Mississippi State University's Broadcast Meteorology Program, while his broadcasting education was obtained from Onondaga Community College, among others (Randall never actually graduated and had dropped out of four different colleges by the start of his broadcast career).
Prior to 1983, Randall worked at WFSB in Hartford and WDBJ-TV in Roanoke, as well as a brief stint as a commercial spokesman for, among others, the New York Lottery in 1978.
Randall joined WKBW-TV in 1983 as a feature reporter. His features are still occasionally rerun on WKBW today. In 1989, Randall was paired with Ann Edwards to host Good Morning Western New York, the first morning newscast in the Buffalo market, with Randall assigned weather presenting duties as well as co-hosting duties. Randall became a bona fide meteorologist shortly thereafter; he became the third true meteorologist in the Buffalo market (after Don Paul and WIVB-TV's Mike Cejka). From 1992 through 1993, Randall was named "Captain" of the children's television program Rocketship 7. Upon the retirement of Tom Jolls in 1999, Randall was named chief meteorologist and moved to the station's evening newscasts. He was moved back to mornings in 2009 in an effort to revive the ratings of Good Morning Western New York.
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