WHAM Weather Team

[dmott3]

I Watch 13 WHAM News at 11 Last Night and Joe Pasquarelli From WETM TV in Elmira Fill in, i know Richard McCollough has Moving out of Rochester, for Fill Time Work, is Joe Pasquarelli working WHAM or WETM OR Both,

 

[Mark Giardina]

I Watch 13 WHAM News at 11 Last Night and Joe Pasquarelli From WETM TV in Elmira Fill in, i know Richard McCollough has Moving out of Rochester, for Fill Time Work, is Joe Pasquarelli working WHAM or WETM OR Both,

Not that I have any inside information, but if I were to just guess I would imagine that since McCollough has left for South Carolina, and only worked weekends, that Mr. Pasquarelli is just a weekender for Channel 13. Therefore he could work for both stations since Elmira TV does not reach the metro Rochester market.

Smart move on Pasquarelli's part. He gets his foot in the door at 13 while still working full time in a smaller market station.

 

[BobRoss]

Also remember that WETM and WHAM are both owned by ClearChannel. Even if there was some coverage overlap, it's not like he's working for a competitor.

It's been a few years since it last happened, but sometimes when WSYR (then WIXT) was in a pinch, they would borrow meteorologists from sister stations in Binghamton or Utica.

Conversely, when a smaller market is in a bind, you may see a Syracuse or Rochester meteorologist on the air (though usually, taped at their own "home" studio as opposed to actually appearing in person). It doesn't happen often, but it's nothing new.