{"id":536205,"date":"2016-09-16T01:00:01","date_gmt":"2016-09-16T06:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=536205"},"modified":"2016-09-17T01:00:08","modified_gmt":"2016-09-17T06:00:08","slug":"after-54-years-dr-bob-peters-retires-from-the-airwaves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=536205","title":{"rendered":"After 54 Years, Dr. Bob Peters Retires from the Airwaves"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2016\/09\/drbobpeters.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2016\/09\/drbobpeters.jpg\" alt=\"drbobpeters\" width=\"125\" height=\"167\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-536206\" \/><\/a>TYLER &#8212; It all started October 1, 1962.   Now weather wizard Dr. Bob Peters is calling it a day, retiring from the KTBB airwaves after Friday&#8217;s on-air forecasts and analyses.  He says the technology has come a long way in 54 years.  According to Peters, &#8220;Now our forecasts for the next 120 hours are about 95 per cent accurate; two weeks, they&#8217;re about 85 per cent accurate &#8212; and that is very much higher than what it was when I started doing this.&#8221;<!--more-->  <\/p>\n<p>Peters says the memories will live on.  He tells us, &#8220;I have gotten a positive response &#8212; and that is actually understating it &#8212; from people that hear me, and that I hear from&#8230;and I am now hearing from the grandchildren of people who listened to me 50 years ago.&#8221;  Peters adds that the weather still fascinates him &#8212; and that he&#8217;ll miss the daily routine he&#8217;s conducted since his long-ago debut.  But he notes, &#8220;There comes a time. In the words of Archbishop Cranmer in the prayer book, &#8216;The hour cometh and now is.&#8217;  And that&#8217;s here.&#8221;    <\/p>\n<p>So what&#8217;s Dr. Bob&#8217;s big plan for retirement?  He told us, &#8220;Sitting right beside me, I&#8217;ve got a stack of books that&#8217;s about ten inches high.  I gotta read &#8217;em.&#8221;  Peters will have other activities as well &#8212; including one that will keep him on the team.  He&#8217;ll continue to update the weather on ktbb.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TYLER &#8212; It all started October 1, 1962. Now weather wizard Dr. Bob Peters is calling it a day, retiring from the KTBB airwaves after Friday&#8217;s on-air forecasts and analyses. He says the technology has come a long way in 54 years. According to Peters, &#8220;Now our forecasts for the next 120 hours are about &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=536205\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">After 54 Years, Dr. Bob Peters Retires from the Airwaves<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":536206,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-536205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-18 00:08:24","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/536205","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=536205"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/536205\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":536210,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/536205\/revisions\/536210"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/536206"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=536205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=536205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=536205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}