Christopher Nance Has Placed A Pox On NBC And He's Working With God To Make It Stick

For many years, Christopher Nance was a weatherman on the local NBC station in Los Angeles. He also wrote a bunch of children's books, which he self-published, and christened himself "The Weatherdude." He was, as most weathermen are, completely ineffectual predicting the weather. His acumen as a children's book writer is an unknown quantity here in the Goldberg home as I make it a policy not to purchase any books penned by former local NBC newscasters (which is why I don't own any Kelly Lange novels, either). Every year, Christopher had his own booth at the LA Times Festival of Books and every year I'd walk by and wonder who, exactly came in to get his autograph. Maybe people really into the weather? Maybe people awed by local news? Maybe people who wrote anchorperson fanfiction? It was even more of a curiosity for me after Nance was fired from NBC amid rather sordid allegations involving violence, sex, and, curiously, predicting it would be 72 and windy in Rialto on a day when it was 69 and hazy.

Sadly, this year Christopher will not be at the Festival of Books, because, according to his website, he now lives in Hawaii. Oh, and also because he has asked God to curse NBC and, as it seems to be working, maybe he doesn't want to get to close to the fire and damnation:

On September 19^th 2002, I was told by Paula Madison and Tom Carrins that it was “Politically Incorrect”, to read my Bible in my free time while at work.  I continued to read my Bible and was fired for doing so three months later.  Since then, when God was asked to leave KNBC, the show that I was on for 15 of my 18 years at NBC fell out of first place for the first time in its history, the network fell out of first place and both KNBC and NBC are on a downward decline.  The show and the network were successful because Christians like me prayed to God for the prosperity of our work place.  Now the Christians at NBC have been told that God is not welcome there and I believe that the Lord has removed His blessing from the place where I worked and prayed.  NBC recently put on a show that mocked God, called THE BOOK OF DANIEL.  This program has recently been canceled.  God will not be mocked and that is why I am certain of the out come of my upcoming trial.

Continue to vote with your television remote and send a message to the Networks.  Remember, they work for us.  You hit NBC the hardest during February, May and November.  Those are big ratings months and that is when most of you have been switching off NBC and watching other stations.  You are making a difference with your prayers and your viewing practices.  Calls, letters and e-mails won’t work, because the Networks don’t care what you think.  Use your remote and send a powerful message.

And here I thought "Joey" was the reason those Godless fucks at NBC were floundering so. Don't weep for Christopher Nance, though, because for just $500  he'll tell you what else you can watch on TV and how to get those Godless network bigwigs to bow down to your moral will in utter supplication. Of course, for $500 you can also simply hire Chris to MC your event. I'm willing to put up $100. Maybe I can convince my siblings to come up with the other $400 and the four of us will do a signing with Christopher Nance running the show, provided God doesn't destroy the whole of LA before the check clears.

Comments

[Danny Barer]

So when the ratings went down, did he do his "Superior" dance, like the Church Lady?

[Angela]

Wow. Who knew Christopher Nance was such a nut?!!

[dave zarkin]

What is it with religious fanatic weathermen? CBS has two in Minneapolis -- Paul Douglas and Mike Fairborne. Having a direct line to the big guy upstairs hasn't improved the forecasts over those offered at Fox9 and Kare11.

[David Thayer]

Maybe we do need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows. Then again...maybe not.

[Mike Barer]

I don't know, but after sitting high on the Peacock throne, everything NBC does turns to crap including the Winter Olympics. I don't want to cross this guy. lol

[Dee]

Tod you are so right! I went to his website and saw that all of a sudden (after all of the disgusting things he said to his female co-workers) he's found Jesus! Pu-lease!! Last year he was just ranting at NBC and pimpin his horrible, let me say it again, horrible books on his website and at the Festival every year! However his price has gone down (a mere $500). Remember all of the pictures that he would show when he was on air doing the weather from his visits to schools? Well, those were NOT FREE! Each school had to purchase his awful books and it cost them a couple of thousand dollars! So who's being punished?

[Dick Wagner]

I was MASSIVELY screwed by Nance right after the 94 earthquake. I was in his home by Wednesday after the Monday quake, had crews doing major work by the weekend, and was on Nightline with cameras at HIS place by that first weekend. We kicked major butt on his project, and he just outrighht SCREWED me for about $20K, plus pulling away from the $150,000 of work we had started. This guy is a conniving, forked-tongued, arrogant hustler with no conscience. He will say or do anything to promote himself, shamelessly. I couldn't have been less surprised and more vindicated when he got kicked off NBC.
Jesus? Give me a break.

[Renée]

Firing Christopher Nance was the best thing KNBC did for the local news at the time. If they fired him for reading his Bible, that's wrong, however, it was rumored that he was involved in much more scandalous activity anyhow, such as forcing the purchasing of his books in order to agree to "speak" at schools, as mentioned here in another posting. I really feel like he was a sheister and certainly wasn't helping KNBC. Truth be told, KNBC has always had some trouble when it came to their weather people (except for Fritz Coleman, of course, who also can't predict the weather but is far more entertaining to watch.). I lived in L.A. for 23 years from 1982-2005 and when I first arrived every local station had a weather person with a "nature-sounding" name: Dr. George "Fish"beck, Dallas "Raines", Johnny "Mountain" and Fritz "Coleman" (camping equipment). Each network also had a female anchor with an anglecized first name and an Asian last name: Connie Chung, Tricia Toyota, Joanne Ishimine.

While the local news programs do contain news, overall there's a feeling that the "shows" are 80% entertainment value and 20% news integrity which might explain why most of the anchors (male and female) have had a bit too much plastic surgery.

Christopher Nance just wasn't worth investing time in, especially when scandal overshadowed what little he brought to the station.

[vhaz]

This is weird! I loved Chris Nance as KNBC's weatherdude. Sure, I thought he was a bit strange...but it was entertaining! I guess I was just confused about how he looked like such a small man on the t.v., and turns out that he is 6 feet 4 inches tall!! who'd guessed?? This morning, I was telling my husband how I wondered what happened to Christopher Nance and how I was going to try and get some info on the internet, and here I am, in shock and a burst' bubble to boot. Thanks for the info, I think I'll get over it!

[Jane Devin]

Dave Z, we live in the same neck of the woods. I had no idea about Douglas and Fairborne, but it wouldn't surprise me that they're religious fanatics.

Since moving to the Midwest, I've had company meetings turn into group prayer sessions. I've had coworkers forward "end of the world is at hand, find Jesus now" emails to me. There have been company vehicles with crucifix key chains.

When I went to rent an apartment two years ago, I was asked which church I attended. When I said "Shir Tikvah", I was asked if that was Lutheran.

Minnesota is not just a part of the bible belt, they're the whole pair of pants.