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Claire Martin Enters Politics

Postby jon » Fri Feb 21, 2014 9:13 am

Original Title: Claire Martin Off Air After Today

Claire Martin to sign off from CBC News Toronto on Friday
Meteorologist brought 'rock star status' to weather reports
CBC News Posted: Feb 20, 2014 7:22 PM ET

Claire Martin won’t be providing CBC viewers with any more forecasts after Friday, no matter how much viewers might want her to stay.

That’s because she has taken a new job with a production company in Vancouver, which means she won’t be on the air for CBC.

"It has been a blast," Martin said Thursday about her time at CBC.

Martin joined the CBC in 2005, becoming its first-ever meteorologist.

During her time at CBC, Martin worked in both Toronto and Vancouver.

She has spent the past 18 months working with CBC News Toronto.

Cathy Perry, the managing editor of CBC News Toronto, said that Martin made her mark with viewers long ago.

"Anyone who's done local news knows how important weather is to a program. But when Claire Martin is doing weather those segments get rock star status," Perry said.

"And the audience noticed, with big numbers during big storms. The only problem with Claire is we could never get her to function on four hours sleep and be a regular on Metro Morning."

CBC News Toronto viewers can tune in Friday to see Martin’s final broadcast as the station’s meteorologist.
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Re: Claire Martin Off Air After Today

Postby jon » Fri Feb 21, 2014 9:19 am

Claire began her career as a Meteorologist at Environment Canada. She switched to television Weather in the 1990s at Global-TV Edmonton in the 1990s, a station known for its weather thanks to the late Bill Matheson.

She then did National Weather for CBC-TV, moving to CBUT in Vancouver in mid-2007 where she stayed until moving to Toronto to do Local Weather on CBLT.

After the commercial, you can see Claire's second to last day closing from yesterday:
http://www.cbc.ca/player/News/Canada/To ... 438631804/
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Re: Claire Martin Off Air After Today

Postby jon » Thu Apr 09, 2015 8:48 am

From this morning's Broadcast Dialogue:
Former CBC meteorologist Claire Martin will seek the Green Party nomination in the North Vancouver riding for the upcoming federal election. She appeared on The National from 2005 to 2014 as the corporation’s chief meterologist. Martin resigned last year to join Anaid Productions in Vancouver as managing director...
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