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Recorded Weather Forecasts

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formeraa

Brian4 brought this up on the Ashlee De Martino thread, but I think it's worthy of a thread to discuss. I've certainly noticed several stations here using recorded forecasts. 12 News is probably the worst offender, particularly at 1pm and on weekend mornings/evenings. I've noticed it on ABC15 as well (on the 11am newscast). And I even caught 3/5 doing it an Noon once or twice (using April and not interacting at all with Nicole). My main issue is NOT the recording itself, but the anchors tend to say "Lauren is here with the forecast" when it's a recording. What they should do is read the current conditions and say, "Here's Lauren's forecast". I know it's a subtle (but very important) difference.

What do others think?
 
1/02/24 April Warnecke recorded the weather for the 3TV/CBS5 Noon News. There's a reason: she started at 4:30AM.
 
We have a local station that records their Saturday morning forecast the previous night. The guy performs “Attention Deficit Weather Theater” by taking the first minute describing the previous week’s weather.
 
1/03/24: Ian Schwartz recorded the weather for the 3TV/CBS5 Noon News. He started at 4:30AM and sat in at the live 10AM Your Life A to Z taping.
 
You really wouldn't think it would be this hard to schedule the weather department -- even with holiday time off. I mean 2 or 3 days per week they have Suns games, which eliminates at least 2 hours of evening news.

Have your people work 5 days per week like most normal people do. You should be able to fill the slots with 7 weather anchors.
 
formeraa said:
You really wouldn't think it would be this hard to schedule the weather department -- even with holiday time off. I mean 2 or 3 days per week they have Suns games, which eliminates at least 2 hours of evening news.

Have your people work 5 days per week like most normal people do. You should be able to fill the slots with 7 weather anchors.
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It's not just the weather people. I swear Yetta only works about 40% of the time. The scheduling at Arizona's Family continues to mystify.
 
Quick rebuttal: Royal Norman worked Saturday December 23 GMAZ and April Warnecke worked Sunday December 24 GMAZ.
 
brian4 said:
Quick rebuttal: Royal Norman worked Saturday December 23 GMAZ and April Warnecke worked Sunday December 24 GMAZ.
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Yeah, but April has only worked 1 or 2 days this week -- so honestly working one Sunday does not make up for their lax scheduling. And, yes, Royal is probably the only chief met who appears on weekend mornings from time to time. But, with 7 weather people, should he have to???
 
Derek said:
It's not just the weather people. I swear Yetta only works about 40% of the time. The scheduling at Arizona's Family continues to mystify.
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You're right. I guess at least Yetta recorded a holiday program (that ran instead the news in some cases). But the others are randomly missing during the week. I guess Gray does not value anchor pairings at all -- and I'm still trying to remember the names of the newer anchors. I finally remembered the morning person because Scott was saying her name every 2 seconds earlier this week. ;)
 
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