Jack Hanson, who was a colourful mainstay of San Francisco-area TV for six many years died Sunday morning, in response to the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences Bay Area chapter. He was 91.
Hanson labored on a large swath of space shops together with KRON, KPIX, KTVU, KGO-TV and the Cable Health Network. He additionally hosted Comcast Newsmakers, a information interview present on CNN Headline News.
Hanson received his begin within the mailroom at KPIX within the Nineteen Fifties. He quickly grew to become a stage supervisor and moved to KRON-TV, engaged on dwell exhibits resembling NBC’s Wide, Wide World.
In the Sixties, Hanson hosted his personal present, Jack’s Place, again at KPIX. On it, he interviewed celebrities and would additionally draw cartoons. The latter grew to become his trademark. Later, as a weatherman on KGO-TV, Hanson would create cartoons on the climate map to carry every section to life.
Also 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 National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences inducted him in 2000.
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