"Here's a fellow that you grew up admiring and respecting and then you get to work with him for 15 years," he said. Ziegler said that, having grown up with Kraehling "electronically tucking us into bed each night," it was a truly "pinch-me moment" to work with the man. "He was one of the most recognized TV faces," she said. Kramer remembered how people in downtown Minneapolis would constantly be calling out to him on the street. I've always wondered what he would look like with hair." someone will come forth with a picture of Bud with hair. He could read a wrap and newscast producers appreciated that," she said.
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It wasn't necessarily the path he planned for himself.Īuthor Julie Kramer said she remembered producing the noon report, with Kraehling on weather duty, and how much of a professional he was. Kraehling may never have actually gotten a degree in meteorology, but he dependably brought Minnesotans the weather over the next several decades, watching technology evolve along the way. After serving in the Philippines during World War II, he came to the Twin Cities and, in 1949, made the switch to television.
Kraehling started his broadcasting career in the 1940s, at a radio station in Illinois. His laidback 'roll with the flow' persona that we saw on TV was exactly how he was off camera." "You could spend all day prepping a newscast but without fail, the best moments of that newscast were the 30 seconds you holed out around the weather to let Dave Moore and Bud do their thing," former WCCO managing editor and producer Tom Ziegler said. It was that unscripted banter that provided a level of chemistry that to this day has not been matched. MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) - Bud Kraehling, who served as meteorologist for WCCO-TV for 47 years of his five-decades-long career in broadcasting, died Wednesday evening from cancer at the age of 96.įor a lifetime, Minnesotans depended on Kraehling for the weather and for happy talk with his longtime on-air partner, Dave Moore.
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