Frank Deal

There comes a time in every young boy's life when he comes to appreciate and sets about to master the comedic beauty of the pun. In our house, the worse the better. A groan of pain was a better reaction than a chuckle. About the time I was getting it, there was a master of bad punnery delivering the local weather on WGHP -- boy, how I admired Frank Deal.

Our man at Fox 8, Lenslinger, says it well:

"A card-carrying member of local television's golden age, Deal did it all: emceeing shows, interviewing notables, hosting puppet shows, helming the felt board that for many years was all the 'Weather Center' a medium market TV station like El Ocho needed. It was there, amid the stick-on clouds and paper mache snowflakes that Frank Deal truly distinguished himself. "