The first option is a Block Communications option, not a Sinclair one.
You also have 24/7 weather on 12.4 I believe.
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Allen Media lays off local TV weather staff
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The first option is a Block Communications option, not a Sinclair one.
You also have 24/7 weather on 12.4 I believe.
Sinclair is notorious for moving network stations to their own station from the stations they were ‘running’ that they truly don’t own (The Cunningham owned station) as example.thats what I meant by first option. I’m aware Block does own the Lima stations.
correct. It’s there but updated a couple times daily Monday thru Friday. Now with no local weekend news the weather station isn’t really updated on weekends now. The radar is somewhat current when it shows. Otherwise it’s mainly just current weather conditions on the right side and forecast temps on bottom.
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I've heard of stations in Charlotte NC getting their weather from Columbia SC.
This was done when there was a death at WBTV and a lot of people who worked for the station were somewhere else.
This was done when there was a death at WBTV and a lot of people who worked for the station were somewhere else.
What you're describing sounds like a one-off. (Like at the co-worker's funeral.)
Besides, Charlotte is a much bigger metro than Columbia these days, so it doesn't make a lot of sense that they'd farm out their weather reports to a smaller station in a smaller market.
I don't think so, but it was done just the one time for WBTV.
I'm just telling you what I heard.
Edit: I checked Wikipedia and found WOLO centralcast seems to work, if you look past ratings Oct 26, 2003, page 63 - The State at Newspapers.com - Newspapers.com
That was 20 years ago and a lot of WOLO's news operation was moved to WCCB Charlotte, a co-owned station. Then WOLO became the news headquarters. Then things were separate again. I guess I'm remembering something that happened a long time ago.
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Weather apps don't give too much detail. It usually says "Tuesday sunny, high 50, low 30" with few other details. The forecaster on TV, as said above, shows you why it's happening, when the temperature will start to drop, will it be humid or windy, etc. Hey, you've seen a TV weather forecast. You can't get all that info on your phone. If you were confronted with it, it might swamp you with too much detail.
Sorry if this sounds a bit curt. But I am baffled at how many people say, "You don't need radio/TV. You can get it from your phone." Yes, that's true about everything, news, weather, traffic, sports scores, music. By that reasoning, a text book could replace your teacher. Sometimes quick facts from an app are preferred. But sometimes we want someone to color the picture for us.
AccuWeather maps in newspapers have become useless. I reported that to them. Fronts appear and disappear without explanation.
Also, weather reporters should always give the low and the high on the newscasts at or after 6. Otherwise, how do we know what actually happened?
I don't know where you live, but where I'm at, most weathercasters do show a day's high and low for the market's major locations. (This is the San Francisco Bay Area, so they show San Francisco, Oakland, San Jose, maybe Concord (far East Bay) and/or Santa Rosa (North Bay wine country). Sometimes Silicon Valley places like Palo Alto or Fremont too. They can't spend five minutes showing graphics for 50 communities and their individual microclimates, but a viewer can get the day's big picture in a minute or less of the report.)
The big problem with weather in a newspaper should be obvious: the paper goes to bed only once a day. Other than big breaking stories getting squeezed into later editions, once a day's paper goes to bed, the static features -- and weather maps and forecasts are treated as a static feature, like comic strips -- do not get updated until the next day's edition. But electronic media's value add is that they can update the information as the day or evening evolves.
Back here in the 21st century, the weathercasters thankfully aren’t catering to the get-off-my-lawn contingent.
In Charlotte most of the time it seems they don't bother with the official high and low for Charlotte. All they want to do is thalk about what they think might happen. So what if they get it wrong? How will we ever know?
Well, one guy did jump in the lake in cold weather. For charity.
And somehow I did find that one TV station's web site does provide this information by 6:00 most days. Remembering to go there is the problem.
You can get whatever details you want from a mobile app. On the Apple Weather app, bundled with all iPhones, you tap on a day from the 10 day forecast, and it will give you the temperature forecast, hour by hour. Then you scroll down and it will tell you the chance of precipitation by hour and the total precipitation expected.
You can learn a lot more from the textbook, and faster. Especially if you have some base understanding, like a college student should have.
What a textbook can't do is make sure students emphasize the important bits. Reading the "P" section of the dictionary won't teach you to spell Penguin or teach you when to use Plead, Pled, or Pleaded in your prose.
All true but when I look at the app and it tells me it’s currently raining where I am when in fact it is not raining I lose confidence in the app (this is the Apple Weather app I’m referring to)
Allen Media is changing its mind about using Weather Channel staff to replace meteorologists on KWWL after national and local advertisers revolted against the idea:
KWWL owners reportedly backing off plans to use Weather Channel meteorologists in place of local forecasters
Lang 1/22/25 The company that owns KWWL television appears to be reversing its decision to replace local meteorologists with forecasters from the Weather Channel. Allen Media Group owns The Weather Channel as well as 28 network television
www.1630kcjj.com
Or AI forecasts....
And now here’s Max Headroom with the weather
Good for the meteorologists, but it just means Allen Media will make its cuts elsewhere.
This, the AI news reader coming soon.
Some evidence suggests Allen Media is implementing this plan more slowly, via attrition.
At AMG's WLFI-TV/Lafayette, Ind., chief meteorologist Chad Evans worked his last show on Friday. He told a local reporter that he had "heard" that his contract was unlikely to be renewed upon expiration, so he sought other employment. He will now work at Purdue University, and left the door open to other on-air opportunities. WLFI meteorologist Chad Evans signing off: ‘Writing’s been on the wall’
Also on Friday at WEVV-TV/Evansville, Ind., meteorologist Gunnar Consol exited for a new job in the Burlington, Vermont market.
Both stations are currently using Weather Channel staff to cover the morning shows and weekends, with evening shows having local weather coverage.
At AMG's WLFI-TV/Lafayette, Ind., chief meteorologist Chad Evans worked his last show on Friday. He told a local reporter that he had "heard" that his contract was unlikely to be renewed upon expiration, so he sought other employment. He will now work at Purdue University, and left the door open to other on-air opportunities. WLFI meteorologist Chad Evans signing off: ‘Writing’s been on the wall’
Also on Friday at WEVV-TV/Evansville, Ind., meteorologist Gunnar Consol exited for a new job in the Burlington, Vermont market.
Both stations are currently using Weather Channel staff to cover the morning shows and weekends, with evening shows having local weather coverage.
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