Posted on 01/07/2005 2:34:24 PM PST by nickcarraway
A storm of controversy has engulfed The Weather Channel, after a 40-something former anchor accused network brass of washing her out of a high-ranking job to make way for a hot front of sexy young weatherwomen.
Marny Stanier Midkiff, 42, this week filed a lawsuit claiming she was booted in the fall of 2003 as part of a reputed "reorganization" of the storm channel, which she believes was really an excuse to get more young female weathercasters on the air.
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"The Weather Channel Girl, with her perfect weather curl, is talking, cold, cold, cold"...Jimmy Buffett.
see my #36
LVM
And if you want to see weather babes check out Univision. Even if you no habla.
That could sure get ya paying more attention to the weather. lol ;-)
Does this one ever use a sentence without saying "here"?
Sharron
That Jennifer Lopez chick has been hugely pregnant several times as well.
I wonder what would happen if she auditioned for a role as a high-school girl out in Helliwood.
"Matronly", ....LOL....
For quite sometime, it's been clear to me that the weather channel has been pressuring the women to have a certain look, BUT NOT THE MEN. Some of the women are looking almost skeletal that used to be average in weight. As an older woman, I think this kind of thing is really, really wrong. I don't expect the meterologist to look like a train wreck, but I don't turn to the channel to see a "hottie" giving the weather. In my opinion, a lot of people will find their weather information in other places.
Alexandra creates short attention spans:)
Ever see the new one Nicole Mitchell? She'd break your binoculars.
I miss Jill Brown, big time.
If Terry Connelly's switch was to sex up the weathercasts with hot babes, then why is Jim Cantore on every five minutes? I think the TWC ought to be re-named the Cantore Channel.
Alexandra Steele, though, IS HOT!!!
I just saw Kristina. She doesn't change. Still nice.
LOL! You dead folks do like to put in a little plug for your own kind, don'tcha?
Where'd you dig up that hot little number?
Thank You Bump!
Maybe it just proves that being a weathercaster is not a very difficult job...so why not hire some tart that at least looks good while she's reading a teleprompter?
I remember one weather girl in Houston that the local guys referred to as "Miss Cold Front".
That's the extreme weather girl.
Don't get me wrong. I think they're very attractive, but so is Ms. Midkiff. Her suit makes it sound like they're trying to replace her with Playboy bunny types, though, and I wouldn't call anyone on TWC bunnyesque.
I can only think of how Cliff on "Cheers" was in love with the gal on the Weather Channel and kept writing her letters. Anybody remember that?
While her form and her charm, keeps radiating warm, warm, warm.
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