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Wake Up with Al ....then go back to bed

oldiesfan6479 said:
All the promos I've seen plug 6am ET, with no mention of 3am PT.
Of course, if you were on at 3am I doubt you'd mention it either.

However, the WX Channel's program schedule page also has the
show at 10am ET (7am PT). Is this a second live hour, or does
it replay Al's non-topical bits from 6-7am ET, with Stephanie
(who is on all five hours 6-11am ET) doing live updates?

The 10AM is rerun of Al's non-topical bits with Stephanie doing live updates.
 
charlestondxman said:
WABC also carries Storm Stories, along with WGNO in New Orleans, which airs it at 5pm on Saturdays. Al Roker is a overused talent, as he's on the Food Network almost every night, and now, he'll be on the Weather Channel a lot.

Storm Stories is carrried on WCVB in Boston at 2:05 a.m., after a full hour of commercials. Lemme see why WCVB would have an Universal series.

Ellen DeGeneres - it is distributed by Warner Bros.
Bonnie Hunt - not sure, but I believe this is the Universal series which WCVB carries - and they got Storm Stories as a bonus for Bonnie (assuming Universal distributes her). Plus WCVB runs Universal's Law & Order: SVU as well
Who Wants To Be A Millionaire - ABC distributes that, plus Legend Of The Seeker, At The Movies and Desperate Housewives
Oprah, Inside Edition and Star Trek: TOS - all CBS
 
Steve N. said:
Ellen DeGeneres - it is distributed by Warner Bros.
Bonnie Hunt - not sure, but I believe this is the Universal series which WCVB carries - and they got Storm Stories as a bonus for Bonnie (assuming Universal distributes her).
Bonnie Hunt is also Warner Bros.
 
DToTheJ said:
Anyone else thought Al did a good job covering President Obama's inauguration? Just NBC trying to see how much of his talent they can use...

Yeah, he did a fine job of looking enthusiastic, considering how crushed he was that McCain lost!! :D ::) :D
 
I saw something with Al on this morning. He was talking to some actor, I think, then made a cameraman come out from behind the camera because he looked like the interviewee. It seemed like that part with Al guffawing at the similarities and making the actor trade places with the cameraman lasted longer than the actual interview. It probably didn't, but it seemed that way.
 
vchimpanzee said:
He's doing commercials with Larry Sprinkle, the weatherman that time of day on the Charlotte NBC station. Sprinkle (yes, that really is his name) is so shocked to be in the presence of his IDOL.
Talk about ironic, but here in Louisville we had a morning radio DJ and his name was Wayne Perkey...
 
DToTheJ said:
MediaBoy4Radio said:
The first fifteen minutes suggested that either more rehearsal was needed or that Al was phoning the show in.

His interview with Buzz Aldrin was embarassing to be polite.

I think the promos for the show featuring other NBC personnel (Brian Williams, Jimmy Fallon et al.) is even more embarrassing than the actual show which you described above.
It sounds like this WUWA show is nothing more than an hour-long commerical for NBC. So between this show and the 3 hours he's on today, and his shows on the Food Network, I'm getting Rokered to death!
 
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