Al Roker Bio: Age, Today Show Career, Net Worth, and Family Life
By Robert Thorne
Albert Lincoln Roker Jr. was born on August 20, 1954, in the borough of Queens, New York. His father, Albert Lincoln Roker Sr., drove a New York City bus, while his mother, Isabel, managed the household. Roker originally intended to pursue graphic design and illustration, entering the State University of New York at Oswego with hopes of working in animation. That plan shifted when a campus professor urged him to explore communications and broadcast performance.
His commercial television career launched in 1974 while still an undergraduate, taking on weather forecasting duties at CBS affiliate WHEN-TV in Syracuse. Stops at WTVH in Syracuse and WKYC in Cleveland honed his conversational delivery and rapid-fire ad-libbing. By late 1983, NBC executives moved him to their flagship local station in New York, WNBC. Over the next decade, Roker turned local weekend and evening weathercasts into must-watch television, proving that meteorology could be informative without feeling clinical.
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