#the weather channel

[tvneon]

And now...your local forecast for November 29th, 1991.

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[thowawayuntilfurthernotice]

I didn't have "The Weather Channel becomes the target of the newest form of Satanic panic" on my 2024 bingo card, yet here we fucking are!

[justinspoliticalcorner]

Michael P. Hill at NewscastStudio:

Multiple sources have indicated to NewscastStudio that Allen Media Group will begin the process of “hubbing” weather forecasts for its local stations from the Atlanta facilities of its Weather Channel property. The group, which owns around 36 stations in mid-sized to small markets across the country, has already been quietly cutting a variety of jobs in recent days, including managers, anchors and forecasters. The next step, according to multiple insider sources who requested anonymity because the plans are not public yet, is to start producing weather segments for stations from The Weather Channel. Christina Burkhart, a forecaster at WJRT in Flint, Michigan, has also gone public with claims that her station’s parent company will cut “all local meteorologists company-wide.” She posted a message saying so as a public Facebook post.

NewscastStudio has reached out to a general information box for Allen Media Group for comment. The company does not list a public email address for media inquiries and its “press release” section of its corporate website is listed as “coming soon.” It’s not clear what the exact timeframe for these changes might be if they take place; there is an “on-camera meteorologist” listing on the Weather Channel’s careers page, but it’s not clear what specific role this might be for and it’s also possible the network might produce them using existing staffers. This isn’t the first time that a station group has attempted to “hub” its weather operations. Other groups, including Sinclair Media Group, have tried it in the past and some stations have also experimented with having a forecaster from a sister station handle forecasting segments on a day when no other local staffers are available due to illness, time off or staff shortages.

[...] Overall, cutting forecasters at every station would likely come in at about 100 jobs nationwide, assuming each property has at least two to three weather staffers.  Thanks to advances in remote production and work setups, the notion of producing local weather forecasts hundreds or thousands of miles a way is more feasible than ever. Computer systems already exist that allow anyone with a computer terminal and compatible software access near real-time maps, conditions and other data for any market in the U.S. Of course, creating a weather hub does mean that talent likely won’t be as familiar with local happenings, pronunciations, geography and weather patterns, though at least some of that knowledge could be transferred. It’s also likely that forecasters at the hub would be assigned to appear on the same group of stations as often as possible in order to build rapport with viewers.

Allen Media Group stations are eliminating weather departments by hubbing it out. This is a very bad sign, as lots of local area weather expertise has been jettisoned.

[weheartstims]

maybe an odd request but a stimboard for the weather channel ? if you need a time period for aesthetics n such i would prefer if it was focused on 90s but honestly doesnt matter all that much to me :-) have fun with it thank you !!

The Weather Channel (television channel) with 90s stims!

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[ellalovesundertale]

I made an edit of the classic TWC (The Weather Channel) but I added an Undertale related song that I’ve made in there.

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[tvneon]

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[tacoma-narrows]

I wish there was as much interest in archiving more modern documentaries from The Weather Channel as there is for older ones or documentaries from other channels. There are so many cool shows that have aired there in the late 2000s and through the 2010s that I cannot find any internet presence of beyond a few minute long clips.

What if I just wanted to watch the first season of Strangest Weather on Earth again Mr Weather Channel huh? Yeah the one that had half hour episodes rather than the hour long ones in seasons 2 and 3. The one with a more unique title card that u seemed to have scrubbed any mention of off the internet other than title screenshots and those 1 min videos and never aired as reruns amongst seasons 2 and 3. Or any full episodes. I just want to watch ur show again please </3

And NO I DON’T want to watch Weird Earth! That’s a totally different show that is awful. That show is basically The Weather Channel’s version of Strange Evidence (a bad comparison). I want to watch Strangest Weather on Earth, an actual quality show that explained what was going on and wasn’t overly sensationalized.

The archival point goes for a lot of shows from TWC to be fair bc a lot of them have fallen through the cracks and TWC doesn’t put their shows anywhere else but I’m having a lot of opinions about Strangest Weather on Earth rn

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[kingfinfat]

Ok I HAVE to talk about this song.

When you think of Classic Weather Channel (from 80s to mid to late 2000s) You think of chill jazz, sometimes season appropriate music like Christmas music, sometimes heavy metal jazz, but you don't expect BOSS BATTLE music.

For years, nobody could figure out WHO composed it, some people compared it to Yoko Shimomura's works. There's an entire Vice article about the writer searching for the composer. It wasn't until this year, the song writer surfaced! Chris Kennedy is the song writer.

Just for fun, here's the song actually on the air in 2008.

From what I can gather, that was the only time the song was used?? Even the Weather Channel reps had no clue about this mystery.

[arctic-hands]

I'm torn between watching The Weather Channel for the storm(s) coverage and watching Ryan Hall Y'all, and not for any good reasons. TWC has commercials which I loathe, but I also detest RH's "Y'all Bot" using-gen-A.I-as-a-source bullshit.