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STORM RATINGS
- Thread starter jg
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Agreed jg!! Over at Channel 30, Bob Maxon was only interested in the school closings acting like a small child. He actually on occassion stood and waited for a specific town's school district to appear at the bottom of the screen. Pathetic. 8 did a good job though. I just have more of a liking for 3.
Channel 3 always seems to do a good job during a major storm.
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KML0224
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But that's when an already annoying Scot Haney goes into overdrive and click goes my remote. 
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broadwayjoe
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3 did an OK job but, with just about everything they report on, blew it WAY out of proportion. Storm Agatha… PLEASE!
Having ALL of your meteorologists in the studio in itself is going overboard. Although, maybe Haney needed the help because after all he is a comedian not a weatherman.
Channel 8 did a great job. They had just as many live shots as 3 did and I will take the “real” information and experience they provide from their studio and Mobile Weather Lab over Haneys’ singing and comedy act any day. Good info without the “were all gonna die” drama from 3.
Channel 30 is a joke. There are high schools in this state that have better studios and weather equipment then they do. They have NO remote weather monitoring capabilities. They get their radar from the NWS and get their temperature and weather conditions from the DOT and the airports. (And in some cases viewer e-mail) Something anyone with a computer internet connection can do.
Having ALL of your meteorologists in the studio in itself is going overboard. Although, maybe Haney needed the help because after all he is a comedian not a weatherman.
Channel 8 did a great job. They had just as many live shots as 3 did and I will take the “real” information and experience they provide from their studio and Mobile Weather Lab over Haneys’ singing and comedy act any day. Good info without the “were all gonna die” drama from 3.
Channel 30 is a joke. There are high schools in this state that have better studios and weather equipment then they do. They have NO remote weather monitoring capabilities. They get their radar from the NWS and get their temperature and weather conditions from the DOT and the airports. (And in some cases viewer e-mail) Something anyone with a computer internet connection can do.
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broadwayjoe
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The “benefit” is that the truck is a rolling weather center and can do ANYTHING (and more) that 3's (or anyone’s for that matter) weather center can do, ANYWHERE at ANYTIME. Exact weather conditions from the field in real time with a direct satellite radar downlink with down to “street level” resolution and precision.
This storm wasn't a big deal. But when the "big deal" does happen, would you rather watch 30 with their reporters standing on a pile of snow with a ruler telling you their "scientific" observations, 3 with Haney and his off-Broadway song and dance show, or 8 with a real time, mobile, weather center with a real meteorologist in the field that 3 and 30 only wished they had.
I don't know about you, but I'll stick with 8.
This storm wasn't a big deal. But when the "big deal" does happen, would you rather watch 30 with their reporters standing on a pile of snow with a ruler telling you their "scientific" observations, 3 with Haney and his off-Broadway song and dance show, or 8 with a real time, mobile, weather center with a real meteorologist in the field that 3 and 30 only wished they had.
I don't know about you, but I'll stick with 8.
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