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Sam Champion loses morning show AMHQ on The Weather Channel
When Sam Champion left his high-profile gig on ABC’s Good Morning America at the end of 2013, he did it to become the face of The Weather Channel.
But viewers will no longer be seeing that face hosting the three-hour morning show AMHQ each weekday morning. It has been canceled in a major channel shake-up and goes off the air 30 October.
‘I still have a lot of TV work to do!! So please stay tuned,’ Champion tweeted to a concerned fan earlier today.
Champion will lead expanded weather coverage during the evening’s prime time hours and will create editorial content and host on-screen segments for the launch of a digital product called Local Now, according to Variety.
The cancelation of Champion’s show comes as the channel reduces its reality and documentary show production in favor of more live weather coverage. Fifty employees are being let go as part of the changes.
When Champion left his job as GMA weather anchor less than two years ago he wrote on Twitter: Only an amazing opportunity like this at @weatherchannel cld take me away from my @ABC family of 25 yrs and @GMA #blessedlife
Champion had joined New York’s powerhouse station WABC in 1988 and GMA in 2006 where he broadcast more than 1,800 weather forecasts.
He came out publicly in October 2012 in a New York Times article about the wedding of MSNBC anchor Thomas Roberts and Patrick Abner. A few months later, Champion married photographer Rubem Robierb.
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