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WXIA NEW WEATHERMAN: Mike Francis

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electroboy73

...Saw him debut the other night. Apparently came from KARK-TV Little Rock, Arkansas and has been named new Chief Metorologist for WXIA. He's not bad...nor bad looking! ;D But, did I miss something here on these boards? What does this mean for Paul Osmon is he def OUT? Is Chris Holcom still there as well?

Thanks.
 
It was announced about Paul's departure months ago. The announcement about Mike Francis accidentally got out before the station even told Paul who his replacement was. Paul told months ago his contact was not being renewed. He wasn't fired, the station just didn't exercise their option to renew his contract when it was coming up for renewal.
 
This is probably 'way off-topic but I've got to weigh in on this:
I am so glad I have not watched 11 Alive on a regular basis since
it was an ABC affiliate. I have never seen a station with so much
personnel turnover (Brenda Wood seems to be the one constant)
that I'm not sure if, were I to move back to Georgia, I would be a
regular viewer of 11 Alive News (I'd probably be more inclined to Ch. 2
but I'm seeing the same thing I saw on WFAA Dallas--the team is breaking
up: John Pruitt and Chuck Dowdle retired, Monica about to retire, leaving
only Glenn Burns. In Big D, WFAA lost Verne Lundquist to the networks,
Iola Johnson to personal problems, Tracy Rowlett to KTVT, and Troy Dungan
to retirement). Seems everything started going south when John Pruitt went
back to Ch. 2 and Johnny Beckman went to CBS46; neither felt 11 Alive was
putting sufficient resources into the news (things may have started going
south even before that).

Some of you aren't old enough to remember the teams of the '70s: my favorite
(my rebellious streak shows here) was Dave Michaels/Gail Janus/Steve Somers;
the best was Virgil Dominic, Ron Becker, David Grant, and Bob Neal. And both
teams did give Ch. 2 some competition; in the case of Michaels/Janus/Somers,
11 attracted a much younger audience than 2, and in the case of Dominic/Becker/
Grant/Neal 11's share doubled before bottoming out along with ABC's after the
Smith/Reasoner breakup (moving the local news to 5:30 in 1975 probably didn't
help either).
 
Oh WOW, that is so old footage there. I was in first grade and I remember some of them.
 
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