Karl Wells, Atlantic Canda’s Here & Now’s weatherperson for almost 30 years, is retiring  from the CBC.

Karl plans to pursue freelance writing. He already writes a regular column for The Telegram and he hopes to expand into magazine writing.

Karl began his 31-year career with the CBC in 1976 as an announcer in radio and television. In Radio, he was the first host of Weekend AM and the voice of the Morning Show’s satirical segment, His Worship, an impersonation of former St. John’s mayor John Murphy. In 1978 he moved to television to begin his Here and Now weather assignment and to anchor the very successful late night news program, Newsfinal. In 2001 he went national for two years as the Country Canada channel’s morning weatherperson on CountryWide.

During the past 31 years Karl has spent almost 30 years reporting the weather on Here and Now, becoming an icon across the province for his weather knowledge.  During that time he became one of our most visible CBC personalities, in large part because of the highly successful live community segment he helped develop during the early nineties, reporting from winter carnivals, fire stations, church basements, fishing boats and live from the Hibernia platform, over 350 km offshore!

As well as the weather, Karl used his passion for arts and food to bring many arts personalities to our show and to launch the popular ‘Cooking with Karl’ series.  And he has always been an ambassador for the CBC at community events, including his role as volunteer host of the CBC Janeway Telethon.

Do you have any memories of Karl you’d like to share?

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