23.5 Degrees has been cancelled at The Weather Channel with the departure of host Sam Champion.
In a statement, the network said:
Sam Champion has decided to leave The Weather Channel at the end of this year to pursue new challenges. We are grateful for his contributions and leadership in his time at the network, as Managing Editor, and both anchor and creator of AMHQ and the pioneering 23.5 Degrees. Sam was influential steering our business during a period a rapid change, and The Weather Channel is stronger today for it. We wish Sam all the best in his new endeavors and will always consider him part of The Weather Channel family.
The show, which premiered March 2016, will air its final episode tonight at 11PM.
RIP.
Sue Brown says
Sam should have never left GMA…
David T. Gray says
23.5 was topical, articulate, enlightening, relevant. Sam carried with him a joie de vivre that was genuine and he never failed to put his guests at ease during his interviews. He spoke to everyone, all ages, political/religious persuasions. I hope this vital program re-surfaces at a more “user-friendly” venue. Lord knows in view of the colossal mess our country is in right now we can use all of the good info that we can get. Since TWC sold out to the BIG BAD CORPORATE NETWORK it hasn’t been the same at all. Since their main concern is MAXIMIZING PROFITS they are continually changing the schedule, and hosts which is like going to a hospital and finding out that the MD that you saw on your previous visit that you thought treated you like a HUMAN BEING is no longer at the hospital. Now you have a complete stranger to deal with and…start from scratch.
Sarah H. says
Looking back at the series 23.5-degrees today, we learned that it was full of inaccurate information and to most it would seem to be full of down right lies and deception.
Some though will stick up for Sam by saying he was doing it for the greater good, while others will just see it as propaganda for the failed Paris Climate Accord.
The PCA actions after the U.S. pull-out, showed a bad sign that it was about money and little to nothing about the actual climate.