[NY.SS-Bar9]

The hype comes from privately owned weather services (e.g. TWC) hawking for advertising. The more they stir doom, the more people will tune in.

Is it possible that NOAA, with 800+ million in tax dollars, forces TWC and others to rely on a more sensational style to compete?

[dirtboy]

Is it possible that NOAA, with 800+ million in tax dollars, forces TWC and others to rely on a more sensational style to compete?

I don't see NOAA forcing TWC to start lame-assed personality-driven programs such as the two twits on at 8pm and that even lamer weekend talk-show format. TWC did fine as long as it reported hard weather news. But some Clintonista-type hack runs the network now and thinks they can draw viewers by dragging it into liberal nitwit land.

[NautiNurse]

Is it possible that NOAA, with 800+ million in tax dollars, forces TWC and others to rely on a more sensational style to compete?

TWC is not competing with NOAA weather radio. The NWS does not have a television presence. btw--how many private enterprises should be flying into the eye of a hurricane at any given time?