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Dangerous Wrong Sinclair Weather |
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and your point is? |
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06/11/2005 |
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A few weeks ago on our local WB, they ran the weather from the day before. It was great. The met was talking about the threat of thunderstorms and there wasn't a cloud in the sky.
"You Go Sinclair!" "You're doing a good job!" (Insert laugh track here!) |
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So what if they had the wrong forecast?
Ask viewers in ANY market and they'll joke about how wrong the wx is on every station every day.
You know, it's only a matter of time before people wake up and realize that, just like news, they don't need to get their weather from the TV boobs. They can get it online, at a moment's notice or even have alerts sent to their email, phones, pda's...
We are so self-important in this business it makes me laugh. Get ready for the NEXT big thing wx geeks because being on TV is definitely NOT it. Nobody 'needs' wx geeks on tv anymore. Get OVER it. Move on. I never even watch local TV news anymore. And I miss NOTHING. I get a couple of regional newspapers every day, plus WSJ, and I read papers via the Web and wireless, and I get my wx from the national wx service the same way... Updates are nice and regular, and I can choose what sat or radar I want to look at. Wx on TV is becoming as irrelevant as the newscast itself. Best of all, no Biff Blowdries or Keen Weather Geeks and their shtick.
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