Though he was both the president and the CEO, Coleman was forced out of The Weather Channel in 1983, and he never returned in any professional capacity.
After nearly two years of legwork, The Weather Channel was launched on Sunday, May 2, 1982, with Coleman and Batten appearing on-air to introduce the game-changing channel.
And though The Weather Channel remains an informational and occasionally groundbreaking source of real-time weather data, John Coleman’s time there wasn’t to last anywhere near as long.
As the 1980s got underway, John Coleman established an important partnership with Frank Batten, who was at that point the president of the then-titled Landmark Communications, which is now called Landmark Media Enterprises.