Marty Bass

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Marty Bass is a television news reporter and weather man for CBS affiliate WJZ 13 in Baltimore, Maryland. Noted for his strong accent and ebullient personality, Bass is a twenty-five year veteran at WJZ and is the co-host of the Baltimore market's #1 rated morning show. His original host on the morning show was Oprah Winfrey. The WJZ Morning Edition show was voted "Best of Baltimore" by Baltimore Magazine in 2007. Conversely, in 1996 Bass was once voted the "Best Reason Not to Watch WJZ-TV" by Baltimore alternative weekly The City Paper. [1] [2] [3]

Bass lives in Brooklandville, Maryland with his wife, Sharon, and their two children, Savannah and Jake. [4]

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[edit] "The Bald Symbol of First Warning Weather"

On February 9, 2006, Bass addressed a notable piece of Baltimore folklore - the disappearance of his toupee in 1984.

As part of local public radio station WYPR's Stoop Storytelling Series, Bass told the story of how he began to go bald in his early/mid 20s, and that his TV news directors insisted that he wear a hair piece. After years of wearing a toupee, Bass finally decided to appear on WJZ without a toupee in 1984. He went on vacation with a hair piece, and returned from vacation without a hair piece. The "news" story on Marty's missing hair was carried worldwide by Associated Press and UPI. Bass recalled that eventually, he and WJZ decided to "retire" the old toupee to Boca Raton, FL ("Where the other retired Northwest Baltimore hair pieces go.") and that it was flown, first class, to Florida by Piedmont Airlines.[5]

[edit] Political prospects

Campaign yard sign
Campaign yard sign

In 2006, there was a grassroots political campaign to have Bass elected as Governor of Maryland by a write-in ballot. There is a similar campaign to have Bass elected as President of the United States in 2008. [6] [7] [8]

[edit] Sources

  1. ^ CBS/WJZ Marty Bass official bio. Retrieved on 2007-10-15.
  2. ^ Best of Baltimore 2007. Baltimore Magazine. Retrieved on 2007-10-15. “The show is just as disorganized and loose (and comfortable being that way) as we are in the morning—eating oatmeal in our underwear, putting the OJ in the kitchen cabinet instead of the fridge, and getting syrup all over our tie.”
  3. ^ Best Reason Not to Watch WJZ-TV News. The City Paper. Retrieved on 2007-10-15. “His loud and rambling weather reports serve only as vehicles to hog airtime, and afterward you don’t have a clue whether to take the umbrella or leave it home.”
  4. ^ Marty Bass, WJZ-TV anchor. Baltimore Sun. Retrieved on 2007-10-15.
  5. ^ The Signal, 02/09/06, WYPR
  6. ^ Governor of Maryland. Crabopedia. Retrieved on 2007-10-15.
  7. ^ Marty Bass for President!. Retrieved on 2007-10-15.
  8. ^ Martyspace on Myspace. Retrieved on 2007-10-24.

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