Change in the air at the Weather Channel

Atlanta Journal-Constitution ^ | 04/26/2002 | MATT KEMPNER

[Pokey78]

Sounds like the perfect opportunity for Paula Zahn.

Seriously, if they get rid of Sharon Resultan, I'll never watch again!
BTW, Sharon must have the gestation cycle of a blue whale. 2 year long pregnancies.

[Husker24]

I hope they dont replace their meteorologists with a bunch of airhead tv personalitys, i like it the way it is, especially during severe weather or hurricane season, hell i could watch it all day. It can be addictive as crack.

[egarvue]

My wife is a Weather Channel junkie. She's so addicted, that when we moved to our new house a couple of weeks ago and lost our cable for about a week, she would call up her friends to have them watch the channel and report on what the weather forcast will be. At least she's not watching soap operas :-)

[cva66snipe]

Well for one thing the morons need to stop standing in front of the map & use a cursor. Another thing is they need to be stop cutting off sections of regional borders and overlap them in the next frame. The Tennessee Valley is a good example. They show Chatanooga then sometimes half of Knoxville or not. You can neither tell from the south east or other regions what's going on. Hiring weather Bunnies will not help in that matter. It's a disaster now and if I want the weather I go to the NOAA weather site at least they are accurate.

[timestax]

I dig weather bunnies!!

[Pokey78]

I was going to buy my mother a satellite dish last Christmas for her, but she wanted a test run to see if she would like it. So she came over to my house for the weekend to look at the DISH network.

After 30 minutes she said, "You couldn't GIVE me one of those! They don't carry the local weather forecasts on The Weather Channel!".

[hole_n_one]

I'm too sexy for my pants, too sexy for my.......

[hole_n_one]

[LostTribe]

>I hope they dont replace their meteorologists with a bunch of airhead tv personalitys,

It's already going that way. Over the past months there is less and less weather and more just plain crap! Just because someone there is tired of reporting weather is no reason to wander off the reservation and into endless reruns of stale and moldy footage of ancient weather. Does anyone really care? Also, the weather related "features" are such a tedious bore.

The good news is, we watch the weather channel much less than before, and are discovering other channels and other things to do. If we can't get REAL weather when we want it, why stick around for this People Magazine type stuff? I predict management changes at the Weather Channel within the year.

[zoso82t]

As an east coast surfer, the Weather Channel is god during late summer and fall. At 50 past every hour, we pray to the tropical update for a hurricane to start spinning across the Atlantic. We don't want it to batter the coast, just a nice Category 3 or 4 to sit a few hundred miles out and pump some groundswell our way.

[Howie66]

I get all that I need to know about the weather, just by walking out of my door every single day.

[Rome2000]

"They don't carry the local weather forecasts on The Weather Channel!".

Thats true, but putting up with cable service is even worse!.

Digital cable is a joke, the picture still looks like garbage.

The dish almost never goes out, unlike cable, which goes out on a regular basis.

The Dish Network now offers local weather conditions at the touch of your remote, commercial free, so the Weather Channel needs to do some major retooling or go the way of the Dodo.

[forester]

Well for one thing the morons need to stop standing in front of the map & use a cursor.

Isn't that the truth. At least they should stand to the east of the weather fronts, that way I could see what's coming at me instead of what has already passed through.

A couple of other things: first, TWC has a MAJOR east coast bias; second, they have bought into the global warming thing BIG TIME; third, they are running too many side story pieces. They should go back to the satellite coverage and the seven day forecast three or four times an hour. We are back to watching the local news because we don't want to sit through an hour of TWC waiting for the west coast to come up.[/rant]

[Aquamarine]

I remember when they first started The Weather Channel on cable there were no commercials and non-stop weather reports. Now there are 35 minustes of commercials in an hour and 15 minutes of uninteresting documentaries and 10 minutes of weather and I am usually looking the other way when they finally show my part of the map.
Now I just go to Intellicast.com when I want to know the weather report in my area.

[timestax]

Well ALRIGHT, NOW YOUR TALKING!!

[Pokey78]

P. Allen Smith (the gardener) gives me the creeps. He seems a little to "happy", if you know what I mean.

[SkyPilot]

"Gestation of 2 years....hahahah."

Well, they will probably add new "Weather Bunnies."

True--most Americans (or human beings) know what "Dew Point" means. What really aggravates me are these "Weather Heros" how take to the beaches everytime a little storm hits.

"Yes Jim, as you can see--the winds are now picking up to 25 knots here. Everybody----Lookatmeeeeeeee! LOOK HOW BRAVE I AM! I am right here--in the rain!"

Please.

[ClearBlueSky]

Boy- do I agree about the 'features'! What's with the hour of gardening tips- or worse- weather from the past? Who wants to see storms from 20 years ago when there's weather going on now?!
If you think they have an East coast bias, and get mad waiting for them to mention the West coast, try being in New Orleans! Someone's BUTT is always right over us as they point left then right. Even radar shows the Gulf Coast eastward or Texas westward. The only time Louisiana is on screen is when it's hurricane season; THEN were the center of the bullseye! There's nowhere to complain to TWC either-no email addy.

[tubebender]

The Weather Channel gets a lot of use here in our house but we watch it less than we used to. It is like elevator music but cable now has such things as the Food, History and Discovery channels. We live as far west as you can get here on the North Coast of Ca and Pacific storms are of interest to us as is the Doppler Radar but they have added too much fluff and I agree they are always standing in the way of the oncoming storms.

Back in their beginning they had a PET PHOTO CONTEST and we entered our Cocker Spaniel (Sparkle) being chased buy a mama deer.At 5 oclock one morning my wifes screams of "SPARKLE is on TV" woke me from a sound sleep. I swear my heart stopped as I thought she was under attack. Sparkle was a runner up out of thousands of photos. I got a Tee Shirt and Sparkle was immortalized as the photo ran 4 time an hour for 2 weeks and I took some screen shots with my camera.

[Jay W]

Boy- do I agree about the 'features'! What's with the hour of gardening tips- or worse- weather from the past? Who wants to see storms from 20 years ago when there's weather going on now?!

Maybe they could also do "weather of the future"?

Oh, wait, that'd be a "forecast." Never mind! :-)