{"id":234456,"date":"2026-04-04T03:25:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-04T03:25:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/234456\/"},"modified":"2026-04-04T03:25:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-04T03:25:10","slug":"beloved-spectrum-news-meteorologist-dan-robertson-dies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/234456\/","title":{"rendered":"Beloved Spectrum News meteorologist Dan Robertson dies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We have some difficult news to share about a member of our Spectrum News team.<\/p>\n<p>There are some people who deliver the forecast, and then there are those who make us all feel at home here in Texas. Dan Robertson did both.<\/p>\n<p>Dan spent decades on the air in Texas, from his first job in Lufkin to stations in Austin and eventually forecasting across the state on Spectrum News 1.<\/p>\n<p>Dan provided a voice that people trusted.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m sure many of our viewers felt a connection to Dan, and in the newsroom, we loved him immensely for his witty humor and warm spirit.<\/p>\n<p>Dan died unexpectedly on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s taken a toll on all of us, and our hearts and prayers are with his wife and three sons.<\/p>\n<p>In the coming days, we\u2019ll share more about Dan\u2019s life and legacy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"We have some difficult news to share about a member of our Spectrum News team. There are some&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":234457,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[14209,65180,132,134,133,102,14210,223,82,13214,27,835],"class_list":{"0":"post-234456","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-austin","8":"tag-app-human-interest","9":"tag-app-latest-human-interest-stories","10":"tag-austin","11":"tag-austin-headlines","12":"tag-austin-news","13":"tag-dallas","14":"tag-human-interest","15":"tag-news","16":"tag-san-antonio","17":"tag-spectrum-news-staff","18":"tag-texas","19":"tag-vod"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234456","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=234456"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234456\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/234457"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}