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CBS 5 Morning Crew

brian4

brian4

Decided to watch CBS 5. Nicole Crites is off. Paul Horton is hosting. Katie Baker, the regular morning weather person, is reading the news. Kylee Cruz is doing the weather.

So they have 2 actual weather people doing the news while a reporter is doing weather? Why isn't Kylee doing the news? Not 100% sure of Cruz's background and I don't know if she's in meteorological training.
 
brian4 said:
Decided to watch CBS 5. Nicole Crites is off. Paul Horton is hosting. Katie Baker, the regular morning weather person, is reading the news. Kylee Cruz is doing the weather.

So they have 2 actual weather people doing the news while a reporter is doing weather? Why isn't Kylee doing the news? Not 100% sure of Cruz's background and I don't know if she's in meteorological training.
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That's called "rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic." Channel 5's morning newscast is supposed to go away sometime soon, replaced by a simulcast of Good Morning Arizona until 7 AM. No need for two competing newscasts from one company, especially when KPHO's broadcast has never done well.
 
brian4 said:
So they have 2 actual weather people doing the news while a reporter is doing weather? Why isn't Kylee doing the news? Not 100% sure of Cruz's background and I don't know if she's in meteorological training.
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Why would a competent newsreader need meteorological training to read a weather report?
 
landtuna said:


Why would a competent newsreader need meteorological training to read a weather report?
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If you are talking Phoenix weather, I absolutely AGREE with you.

If we are talking about other parts of the country who have real weather (tornadoes, severe storms, etc.) on a regular basis, my preference would be a trained meteorologist.
 
formeraa said:
If we are talking about other parts of the country who have real weather (tornadoes, severe storms, etc.) on a regular basis, my preference would be a trained meteorologist.
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While I can see the obvious benefit of a trained meteorologist to interpret the weather most "weather reports" consist of not much more than the temps and a very shallow forecast. And since virtually all detailed weather interpretations come from the same federal agency it is largely just the presenter's personality that makes a difference.

I've actually seen more in-depth weather reporting come from morning show personalities like Rick D'Amico than "real" meteorologists. But then Rick lived in tornado country for a number of years....
 
landtuna said:


That's bad news. 3 was run a ton better than 5.
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True, but the owner gets to decide who stays and who goes. And 5 owns 3, not the other way around, although from what I understand, it'll be the 3TV facilities that house both stations, not the 45-year-old KPHO studios.
 
landtuna said:


While I can see the obvious benefit of a trained meteorologist to interpret the weather most "weather reports" consist of not much more than the temps and a very shallow forecast. And since virtually all detailed weather interpretations come from the same federal agency it is largely just the presenter's personality that makes a difference.

I've actually seen more in-depth weather reporting come from morning show personalities like Rick D'Amico than "real" meteorologists. But then Rick lived in tornado country for a number of years....
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I was in Dallas a month ago when several lines of severe thunderstorms and tornadoes were moving through the area. Thank goodness for the trained meteorologists who were looking for signs of tornadoes on the radar (and found four during an expanded 10pm newscast).

In Phoenix, there are very few times when a degree is needed (although I do appreciate solid meteorologists and miss Jayme King who actually put together a great forecast every weekend for Fox 10).
 
brian4 said:
This answers my question.
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We moved from Chandler, AZ to Spokane Valley in 2004. I saw Kylee doing the weather here in 2012. She was as accurate as any of the other weather people here. My wife and I laugh because the weather folks are right 95% of the time in AZ, but here they hover around 50% :)
 
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mohawk82 said:


We moved from Chandler, AZ to Spokane Valley in 2004. I saw Kylee doing the weather here in 2012. She was as accurate as any of the other weather people here. My wife and I laugh because the weather folks are right 95% of the time in AZ, but here they hover around 50% :)
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But, again, Spokane has REAL weather. Phoenix does not. By default, Phoenix weather guessers should be right 95% of the time. The other 5% are the cases where Phoenix has real weather. In the cases of real weather, the Phoenix weather guessers are WRONG 95% of the time IMHO.
 
landtuna said:


While I can see the obvious benefit of a trained meteorologist to interpret the weather most "weather reports" consist of not much more than the temps and a very shallow forecast. And since virtually all detailed weather interpretations come from the same federal agency it is largely just the presenter's personality that makes a difference.

I've actually seen more in-depth weather reporting come from morning show personalities like Rick D'Amico than "real" meteorologists. But then Rick lived in tornado country for a number of years....
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Actually, while most of the weather data and forecast information does come from the National Weather Service, each station usually has an in house computer system running one of about three major weather production software such as WSI and Weather Center. These programs compile the information and also run a "what if" forecast based on local data of past weather. Either the weather personality or a weather producer gather the information and create the graphics that we see during the weather segments. That is one of the things that bugs me about so many of the on-air weather personalities that have "studied" meteorology (many by taking a distance learning program like the one from Mississippi State University) and talk about this and that weather happening but with no real sense on what it is, only what they remembered reading for their test.
 
The merger and the layoffs will not be very noticeable to viewers, Munson said.

Perhaps if only the suits were being laid off.
 
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