James Spann
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James Max Spann Jr. (born June 6, 1956) is a television meteorologist based in Birmingham, Alabama.
He currently works for WBMA-LD (ABC 33/40), Birmingham's ABC affiliate.
Spann has been working in the field since 1978.
Early life
Spann was born in Huntsville, Alabama, on June 6, 1956, to Max and Carolyn Spann (1932-2020). As a youth, he and his family immigrated to Greenville, Butler County. His mother served as a secretary at Greenville High School, while his father sold lumber.
When Spann was seven years old, his father left the family, leaving Carolyn to raise him. Spann and his mother took them to Tuscaloosa after Spann finished his fourth grade so that his mother could complete her education at the University of Alabama and become a school teacher.
Career
Spann began his radio broadcasting career in Tuscaloosa in 1973, according to WTBC radio. Dave Baird, a former ABC 33/40 anchor, worked the night shift while high school anchor Dave Baird worked mornings. Spann volunteered in Jasper, Alabama, many hours after the 1974 Alabama tornadoes. In 1977, he began his television work in Tuscaloosa, the "33" in 33/40. Spann was a weekend sports anchor and part-time weatherman in Montgomery, Alabama, 1978. Despite having no formal weather training, he was recruited as the chief weatherman at Top 40 station WHHY-FM ("Y102") in Montgomery in the summer of 1979. He was one of the country's youngest chief weathermen at the age of 23.
Channel 13 was sold to Times Mirror in 1980 and renamed WVTM-TV, and the Spann family was thrilled with his new bosses enough that they moved him to sister station KDFW in Dallas in 1984. He was named the best weathercaster in the Dallas area by the Dallas Press Club in 1985, defeating such opponents as KXAS-TV's Harold Taft and WFAA-TV's Troy Dungan. He returned to Alabama as part of a small AM-FM radio station team with Dave Baird after only two years. In October 1989, he returned to television as the Birmingham's chief weatherman. www.wobr.com He enrolled in Mississippi State University's meteorology program at the same time, receiving the NWA and AMS seals of approval upon his graduation.
Spann left WBRC in 1996 to the newly formed ABC 33/40, which combined WCFT with WJSU-TV in Anniston and a new low-power repeater in Birmingham (WBMA-LD), and that had taken over WBRC as Birmingham's ABC affiliate. He has been at ABC 33/40 for as long as he has been a kid in the house of Commons.
Spann is the founder of The Weather Factory, which previously The Weather Company), which provides weather forecasts for a number of radio stations and industrial and business clients.
Spann appeared on the syndicated Rick and Bubba Show starting in 2007. He is both the chairman and one of the founding members of AllWorship.com, a non-profit group that airs worship music in English and Spanish. The group grew out of WRRS/Reality Radio, a commercial FM radio station that broadcast Contemporary Christian music in Birmingham from 2000 to 2001. He is also the host of WeatherBrains, a weekly weather podcast, and board chairman of the Children's Hospital of Alabama.
During the 2021 tornado outbreak on March 25, 2021, several tornadoes struck Central Alabama, including a low-end EF3 tornado that destroyed Spann's house.