[BC] TV weather

[Douglas B. Pritchett]

I have been a frequent critic of local TV news because of their emphasis 
of style (if you can call it that) over substance. Contrary to what the 
Chamber of Commerce would have you believe, we're a small town. The ABC 
affiliate trumpets their "first 7 minutes of news" - news with no 
commercials breaks. Yeah, Duh, in our town  7 minutes is all it takes! 
The rest is feature filler off the bird. But the real corker of 
shameless self promotion was when the NBC affiliate promoted their new 
super dooper radar system. Showed promo shots of their "meteorologist" 
in front of a giant, imposing radio tower complete with giant white 
radome on top. "NBC 33's latest investment in radar technology". Next 
day the local paper had the same picture (minus the weather guy). 
Caption said "National Weather Services' new doppler radar installation 
dedicated yesterday.
Who do you believe, local TV or the government.  
Lying bast**ds

-- 
Douglas B. Pritchett
Fort Wayne, IN
dpritchett1 at comcast.net


 Cowboy wrote:

> The worst example I know of, was ch 5 in Cleveland when they first got
> their "doppler 5000" system.
> Some storm was blowing through, and they pre-empted all but two minutes
> of some popular hour long network show. Out of that pre-emption, about 3 minutes
> was actual weather, and the rest was blatant promotion of their brand new
> weather radar.
>
>  
>