Author Brian Sussman

Brian Sussman, Author

My broadcasting career began many years ago while attending the University of Missouri. Somehow I talked Bill Weaver, the wonderful station manager at KFRU-AM in Columbia, into letting me host the overnight show from 1-5AM.  Amazingly, upon graduation, that job led me to accepting a position managing the newsroom at KCBJ-TV (now KMIZ-TV) also in Columbia. I was the nation’s youngest television News Director with a promising future in management, but soon realized I was really more cut out to be in front of the camera, as opposed to behind the scenes.

My TV career soon expanded into specializing in weather and the environment; leading me to pursue post-graduate studies in meteorology and eventually receiving the esteemed American Meteorology Society’s Seal of Approval.  Television allowed me to work and live in wonderful places like Reno, Pittsburgh, and eventually back to my beloved home state of California where I was the primary on-air meteorologist at KNTV and KPIX. I was humbled to have received numerous Emmy Awards, Associated Press Awards for “Best Weathercast” (eight times), and Radio and Television News Director’s trophies for “Best Weathercast” (also eight times). The National Education Associated also presented me with a distinguished service honor for elementary education.  The state of California proclaimed a “Brian Sussman Day,” as did the City of San Francisco.  In addition to all this good fortune, for several years in the 1990s I was lucky enough to hold the post of “fill-in” weather-guy on the nationally broadcast CBS Morning Show with Harry Smith.

If I have a legacy in the world of media, hopefully it will be “Brian’s Kids”. Over the course of 12 years we utilized the airwaves of KPIX to highlight foster children in need of adoption. Over 400 children were adopted as a result of “Brian’s Kids”– in fact my own household expanded notably as a result of the program.

I left KPIX in 2001 after the adoption of our youngest son and launched several successful small businesses. In 2003 I was hired by KSFO radio in San Francisco to perform a two-hour evening talk show. After witnessing my ratings soar to among the highest on the station’s lineup, in February of 2010 I was promoted to host the KSFO morning drive-time show.

Next on my career agenda—a debate with Al Gore.

Not.  Holding.  My.  Breath.  Whew.

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BRIAN SUSSMAN is a San Francisco Bay Area media icon.  For over twenty years he served as the region’s most celebrated television science reporter and meteorologist, having received honors from the Associated Press, the Radio and TV News Director’s Association, the National Education Association, and the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences.

Sussman is also well known for founding Brian’s Kids, an adoption advocacy organization which utilized the TV airwaves of the Bay Area to introduce the public to foster children awaiting adoption. During the course of twelve years, Brian’s Kids assisted in the placement of over 400 children into permanent, adoptive homes.

In 2001, Brian shocked the television community by daring to leave for a career in conservative talk radio.  Joining the line-up on San Francisco’s KSFO-AM, Sussman has become a huge ratings success and a constant source of irritation to the Bay Area’s liberal establishment.

In his book, Climategate, Sussman combines his keen ability to readily explain complex scientific subjects with his astute political observations, driving home his conviction: the theory of manmade global warming is a fraud and many of the high-profile personalities fronting such claims are charlatans purposed to change society and make loads of cash.