TV Is For The Good Looking (Rush's Take On Weather Channel Info Babes And HDTV Perfection Alert)

RushLimbaugh.com ^ | 01/07/05 | Rush Limbaugh

[MikefromOhio]

I thought Christina whatsherface was pretty fun to watch too....

[judgeandjury]

Now, you people who think two-tone green leisure suits from Kmart are cool,

If Snoop Dogg, P. Diddy, and Usher all started wearing green leisure suits from Kmart, these green leisure suits would be considered cool.

[GenXFreedomFighter]

The obnoxious ads?

[My Favorite Headache]

Marny

[SauronOfMordor]

Midkiff started 16 years prior, when she was 25. She probably didn't get the job then because of her meteorology expertise. She should give it a rest. She had 16 years of making good money from reading a teleprompter

[andyandval]

I don't get it.

Neither do I

[buccaneer81]

Where's Kristina Abernathy??!!

[andyandval]

But Heather is so beautiful!

[andyandval]

sarcasm

[aculeus]

Speaking of tv what's happened to Geraldo?

(I should post a vanity but I'm not vain.)

[MikefromOhio]

THATS WHO I WAS THINKING ABOUT!!!

and that Sharon chick too...she was fun to watch when she wasnt pregnant all the time....

[nascarnation]

Kristin Dodd on weekend afternoons is my fave.
Over the last year or so she has had a major tune-up, lost lbs, long blonde hair, etc.

[My Favorite Headache]

Not hotter than Hillary Andrews

[buccaneer81]

and that Sharon chick too,

Sharon Resultan. Not bad, but Kristina was awesome.

[MikefromOhio]

Sharon was hotter back in the mid 90s.....

I wonder if shes gone now? Kristina had that girl next door look...

[rwfromkansas]

Google image search

[andyandval]

Must not be talking about this one.

JLo

[Wally_Kalbacken]

1. The Weather Channel has cannibalized its audience with a pretty good website. It's a lot more efficient to interrogate the website than to wait for the broadcast to cycle around to whatever you are interested in.
2. There are a lot of meteorologists with passable looks and adequate diction out there, and there were many at the time that Ms. Stanier was hired. The Weather Channel had some standards for attractiveness then, and right or wrong, those standards have changed. When she went into the business it was already post-Christine Craft - so the whole world was on notice that in the television business - ratings rule. And if ratings reflect popular tastes, and popular tastes select for youth and beauty...
3. The Weather Channel is owned by a privately held firm - Landmark Communications. Since they are not public - there is little widely known about their financial performance. The last comment I saw in The Wall Street Journal about the firm was the observation that it had a substantial gross profit margin. I would think they should be profitable - they don't have to pay the talent that much - they get data streams from NOAA and other government subsidized sources - and their sets are cheap.
4. I suspect Landmark will tire of the publicity and will settle this - with Stanier getting more than her suit deserves on the legal merits. The videotape segments on her lawyer's website are pretty embarrassing.
5. This is the way it is in TV and any moron is on notice that is it so. If older women do not cut it ratings wise - they will not be on the air. End of story.
6. I used to think Kristina Abernathy was hot. Now I like the young hotties.

[billorites]

"But Heather is so beautiful! "