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Present - The Weather Channel 2000 => OCMs & Personalities => Topic started by: TWCC_DJK5555 on February 05, 2016, 08:29:01 PM
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Dave announced on the air yesterday that he is currently battling stomach cancer. He's already lost over 30 pounds and will soon lose his hair.
Dave is one of my favorite OCMs, and he'll be in my thoughts and prayers.
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That's not good. I'll be praying for him also. He'll probably be doing chemo, that's why the loss of hair. :( I hate cancer!
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Here's the video... It's remarkable, he has such a great attitude about it. Go Dave!
http://youtu.be/TLpwlYDB0rk (http://youtu.be/TLpwlYDB0rk)
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Thanks for the video. Dave Schwartz is my favorite OCM. I just love his positivity and how he never looks at problems as a problem. It's been a while since I last saw Dave on WCL. I hope he'll make it!
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My favorite OCM has always been Dave- this is bad news. I hope he does well and can win this.
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He'll make it.
He beat pancreatic cancer.....TWICE! That cancer has a very low, among the lowest survival rates of all cancers.
He will beat this.
I have always enjoyed his on-air presence - it goes back to about 1991, if I remember correctly.
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Dave Schwartz is one of my many all-time favorite OCMs. If he has beaten cancer twice before, he'll beat this one as well. You the man Dave! Stay strong! :salute:
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I saw him on last night with Mike Bettus. He is losing his hair. :(
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i'm rooting for him to beat Cancer.
i'm surprise The Weather Channel didn't force him into a medical leave while he battles cancer.
Cancer's no laughing matter, recently, we lost a few good celebrities in a short amount of time to Cancer.
and this is gonna be The Weather Channel's version of a well know face battling the horrible disease.
last Year, Fox Sports lost truly the most well loved and beloved face of their NASCAR coverage when Steve Byrnes died 2 days after NASCAR dedicated the annual Spring day race at Bristol for the Cup series to him and his battle with cancer.
and not only that, within the last 2 years, ESPN lost Stuart Scott from cancer.
i hope Dave beats this and i hope he found the cancer while at an early stage of Cancer and not at stage four.
edit: replaced the word energy for early as i made a blunder with my fast typing.
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So that's why he looks kinda different!
Oh no!
I really hope he makes it through this!
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Dave Schwartz is back! :D
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i hope Dave beats this and i hope he found the cancer while at an energy stage of Cancer and not at stage four.
You mean an early stage. Cancer sucks.
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i hope Dave beats this and i hope he found the cancer while at an energy stage of Cancer and not at stage four.
You mean an early stage. Cancer sucks.
thanks for letting me know, it's fixed now.
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I haven't seen Dave in a while. Any updates on how he's doing with treatment?
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According to Paul Goodloe and numerous other sources, Dave passed away today after his long and hard battle with cancer. Thoughts and prayers are with his family, friends, and co-workers in this difficult time.
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RIP Dave, you are gonna be missed. F :censored: Cancer
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I will truly miss Dave. He was on air as recently as about a month ago, I believe. So glad TWC brought him back, and he got another few years to do what he did best. Godspeed, "my friend."
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RIP Dave. :cry:
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RIP Dave! His personality, passion and knowledge of weather was what got me hooked to TWC, and the reason why I started watching TWC years ago. He was the face of TWC and had a personality that no other meteorologist could replace. He got even people who weren't into weather, hooked into weather. He was genuine, comical and smart. RIP my friend, fuck cancer!
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Truly sad news to hear today. He always had a great, humorous way of presenting the weather to viewers, that's one of things I'll miss the most about Dave.
R.I.P my friend. :(
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I loved Dave. He always made you feel like you were right there with him when he was on air, and it was like he personally knew you. His way of presenting the weather is something that can't be replicated.
Dave, you will be missed, my friend. :cry: :(
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He was a great and talented man. RIP. My thoughts and prayers are with his family.
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Oh no! :cry: Dave was one of my favorite OCMs and I really enjoyed the way he presented on-air forecasts with a little sense of humor on the side. My thoughts are with his family and friends during this very difficult and emotional time. R.I.P. Mr. Schwartz. :(
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Wow, this just ruined my night. I'm honestly feeling very emotional right now seeing this. :cry: Dave Schwartz was perhaps my favorite OCMs at The Weather Channel. My most potent memory of TWC was coming home from school everyday and watching him talk about the weather. It makes me teary because of how confident he was; knowing he'd come back and beat cancer. My thoughts are with him, his loved ones, and all who've been affected by his loss. I'm not sure if The Weather Channel will be the same without him.
RIP Dave Schwartz. :cry:
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According to Paul Goodloe and numerous other sources, Dave passed away today after his long and hard battle with cancer. Thoughts and prayers are with his family, friends, and co-workers in this difficult time.
Well I am so sorry to hear this. My mother told me earlier this morning. My deepest prayers, sympathy and condolences to his family and friends. I hate sickness and death!! :( :cry:
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Dave really knew how to communicate with people on-air. It's not like the banter/babble of today. The man had substance and he was genuine. He was one of the few that really stood out to me on TWC over the years. I was so excited to seem him back on the network.
The article said that he worked with the network for 22 years. He actually started at TWC in 1991. There was the few year break in there during the "Sad Time" when people were being let go left and right.
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Dave was my second favorite on-air guy at TWC (Cantore No. 1). I first watched him overnights in the 1990s and immediately liked his demeanor. The man was very down-to-earth and it reverberated while he was on the air. It was like being in a room with him holding a conversation as he told you what was going on and how things were happening. He definitely helped me appreciate weather a lot. His sense of humor was a plus.
There aren't many OCMs like him today so let's be thankful that we all got to enjoy him while we could.
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I'm sorry to hear that he passed away!
He was one of my favorite OCM's.
I still remember when he anounced about new music begain around midnight back in April, 3 1993.
I also still remember when he had Lewis Black on TWC.
He will be missed!
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This is so sad, I was hoping he'd beat it again this time. He was one of my "must see" OCMs going back to his early days with the network. Something that set him apart was he would sometimes use props to help tell the weather story. I would often see him doing the late night hours during the summer when I was out of school back in the 1990s.
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I was coming home to Florida from a road trip to Virginia when I saw the news, very sad. :( Dave was one of the few personalities I enjoyed watching growing up, and I definitely enjoyed his personality and felt upset when he was laid off. I was glad to see him back two years ago as well, but I felt as if he wasn't his old self on the air in recent years.
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Heartbreaking news. :cry: Dave was easily a favorite of mine. I watched him all the time back in the EEWC days, and even more so when he moved to days in 2006.
I'm grateful TWC brought him back so we got to enjoy more of his presentations for at least two years. He will be greatly missed by all.
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That's not good. I'll be praying for him also. He'll probably be doing chemo, that's why the loss of hair. :( I hate cancer!
He died on July 30th :cry3:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hgMB6tMC6Jw (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hgMB6tMC6Jw)
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After Jim Cantore Dave was my favorite. He was so funny on air. This place always talked about Dave so I had to see what he was about. I became a fan of his soon after. I would wait to record stuff until Dave came on. We'll miss "my friend" We should pin this topic as a fan memorial of Dave Schwartz.
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Rest in peace Dave. :cry:
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I'm just now commenting to this really awful news. (I saw this news online Sunday morning, but never thought of posting here until now.)
Dave...in my opinion, the best person we saw on set in the last couple years. After his return, Dave kept treating us like open-minded weather students (and life students) and engaged us viewers in a professional, thoughtful, an often witty manner. Earlier in the year when they moved Dave to a solo block (although he would still appear often on Weather Underground later in the evening.) I thought the network screwed him and just put the old man alone. However, Dave was just as enlightening, engaging and easy to listen to solo as he was paired up with anybody. Running a couple hours solo, without any live help at the lab (they always used early morning taped lab segments) and without usually any live reporters, Dave was amazing was keeping the tone light, and letting us inside his world of fascination of the weather. (I remember one afternoon back in May on his WCL, he spent a good couple minutes showing us the satellite imagery where a severe weather system was setting up in the Midwest. The clouds coming from the east north of the warm front, the clouds coming from the south-south of the warm front, and the clouds moving from the west behind the cold front...almost every day Dave would have something small...yet neat...to point out to us viewers.
One of the very few things The Weather Channel has done right in the last 8 years was brining this lovable man back to our screens. It's just a real shame we did not get to enjoy him being on longer.
Rest easy, my friend, you'll be missed.
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I agree. He was a great meteorologist. Rest In Peace, "my friend".
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So sad. My favorite OCM. :(
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In case you haven't seen it yet, I created a tribute to Dave with several videos clips showing his knowledge and personality. You can see it here:
http://twcclassics.com/blog/dave-schwartz-tribute/ (http://twcclassics.com/blog/dave-schwartz-tribute/)
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I watched more of the TWC's tributes to him. For the most part, everyone was very respectable and calm, but they really should have just let Reynolds Wolff have the day off because he was incredibly annoying. You've got Mike, Alex, Paul, Maria and Kelly all talking about Dave in a more calm and respectable manner and then you have this uptempo loudmouth talking about his death in a way that makes it sound like he's just going through the motions and having no genuine connection to the words coming out of his mouth. Thank god Kelly was there to at least have some sort of genuine words. But jesus christ, Reynolds should NOT have been hosting that day.
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It's just so sad to think TWC brought him back 2 years ago and he'd be gone not too long after. I truly wish he was on longer. I will never forget him and Alex Wilson together on Weather Center Live. They were one of the best pairs I've seen in a long time. I don't think you could've picked a perfect pair but those two. Their personalities just complemented each other so well on the air.
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I hardly ever watch TWC anymore, simply because I'm not sure if I will get weather coverage or the shows, when I'm looking for the former and not the latter, but now I wished I had watched more now that he's gone. :(