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Spring Rubber

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  1. Just noticed with the Idalia coverage that TWC has switched to Carhartt for their field-reporting gear. Apparently this change went into effect May 2, 2023 with the network's 41st anniversary. https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/the-weather-channel-television-network-and-carhartt-announce-new-apparel-partnership-introducing-a-fresh-look-for-the-networks-meteorologists-301813055.html This is the biggest change to date, because gone are the blue raingear outfits previously offered by Lands End, and before them L.L. Bean and Columbia. With the new Carhartt deal, the raingear worn by the field meteorologists is all-black, and during clear conditions, the field mets wear gray Carhartt work shirts. Looks like with this deal, the color scheme is more on-brand with Carhartt itself, rather than TWC. The TWC logo is still featured on all apparel, just the colors are more in-line with Carhartt's typical offerings.
  2. Not a fan of this style of graphics. Just looks ridiculous to me.
  3. Haley Meier is hosting her first regularly-scheduled show today on Fox Weather Live alongside Michael Estime. Michael gave her a warm welcome to the desk at the top of the hour. For someone who is fresh out of college, she's pretty good at this. If I hadn't read up on her background, I never would have known that she wasn't a broadcast veteran coming from another station.
  4. So apparently Fox Weather leaves the "hype level" up to the producers of a given show, rather than it being a network-wide decision. As you may know, there's currently a tropical invest located off the Yucatan peninsula that has a high chance of development into a tropical storm/hurricane that could enter the Gulf of Mexico and impact the US mainland around the middle of next week. Today, despite this just being a disturbance in its early stages, and not even a Tropical Depression yet, the 6am-9am ET edition of Fox Weather First turned all of the studio lights red and replaced all Fox Weather First graphics with the network's tropical graphics. Every other show so far today, including the solo-hosted 5am ET hour of Fox Weather First, Weather Command, and America's Weather Center, were all produced using each show's normal graphics, and normal studio lighting colors. Surprised that this type of decision is left up to each show's producers and isn't made at a network-wide level.
  5. It's been such a pain for the last 7 years that The Weather Channel brand is used by two separate companies. While the TV network technically has its own website, they almost never refer to it because they know people will inadvertently go to IBM's TWC website instead. I kinda wish the tech assets and the TV network could get sold to the same owner and unified again.
  6. Looks like even today on Sunday afternoon as Hilary has made landfall, Fox Weather went into "prerecorded loop" weather programming with no live radar, no live warning info, etc. Looks to me that just like yesterday, they're only planning to do live updates about every 3 hours when a new advisory is released. I feel like we're witnessing the downfall of Fox Weather. If they can't even stay live for a once-in-a-lifetime weather event, just because it happened to occur on a weekend, they're toast.
  7. Haley Meier made her studio debut tonight, solo-hosting the extended coverage of Hilary from 11pm ET onward. (Jane Minar solo-hosted the entire block from 2pm-11pm ET, mostly pre-recorded it seemed, but she kept returning occasionally for live updates, particularly near the times that new advisories were released. Seems like Haley's shift will be structured the same way.)
  8. On a national level, TWC went to long-form at 1pm ET. They're scheduled to be back live from 5pm-1am ET, long form from 1am-5am ET, and then round-the-clock coverage begins starting Sunday at 5am ET. Fox Weather started a pre-recorded loop at 2pm ET solo-hosted by Jane Minar. They just went live with an update at around 4:50pm ET when the latest advisory came out. Unclear if they're planning any other fully-live programming throughout the later part of the day.
  9. America's Weather Center is fully live today because Hurricane Hilary is expected to make a rare impact to the southwestern US. The past two days, a little bit of role reversal has taken place, as Jane has been the host, and Kendall has been the sidekick. She's also generally been the sidekick on Fox Weather Now most days since Brigit's departure. Seems like they're trying to move Kendall into Brigit's old slot while still keeping her involved with America's Weather Center as well.
  10. You're right. It doesn't make sense for the live tag to be rounded on the left and squared off on the right. It actually looks really out of place. Looking at the screenshots from day 1 of the show, it looks like the full show title was all listed on a single line before.
  11. Looks on this weekend morning/early afternoon, Fox Weather Live is taking after the weekday program by the same name: more people, less live... I started watching during the 12pm ET hour, and the show was already sans "LIVE" tag on the bug. Unsure if they just did a single live hour at 10am ET or if they also did the 11am hour live. Either way, the hours of live programming just keep eroding more and more by the week.
  12. Curious to see if she returns to Weekend Recharge and if Lynette remains on that show as well.
  13. Due to today's severe weather outbreak, America's Weather Center is fully-live today for all 3 hours. Bob Van Dillen is joining Kendall today; however, they're not being billed as co-hosts. Instead, Kendall is the sole "host", and she tosses to Bob occasionally for updates. She's at the desk, while he's standing at the video screen. Looks like the "one host" ideology of Weather Command and Fox Weather Now has rubbed off on America's Weather Center. That leaves Fox Weather First and Fox Weather Live as the only weekday shows that still have actual co-hosts.
  14. I believe this is only featured during the extra time on weekend mornings when Fox Business is still in break, beyond the normal time that the stream would be in break. AFAIK, the standard stream breaks still use just the countdown clock (on streaming devices) or the "Download the Fox Weather App" slate if watching on their website.
  15. On weekend mornings during the hours that there's a Fox Business simulcast, Fox Weather First Weekend always takes longer breaks than normal Fox Weather programming in order to account for the longer breaks that take place on cable. To date, on the streaming side, Fox Weather always filled this extra break time with a musical interlude featuring live camera shots from cities around the country. Looks like this weekend, they've finally decided to change it up and air actual weather information during the musical interludes, which is way more useful than the live camera shots.
  16. The discussion desk grew to 4 people tonight with Rick Reichmuth joining the fray. (Yet we still can't have fully-live programming from 12pm-3pm ET anymore...)
  17. Dang, that's unfortunate. I never liked the way they postured Ian as the host of the show and Brigit as the "second fiddle". Didn't seem fair to take Brigit out of a host role and move her into that type of position. I wonder if that had anything to do with her departure.
  18. Nick is back on the show for discussion segments tonight, so I guess maybe it's just "whenever Nick's around" rather than any particular night.
  19. Looks like the Nick Kosir discussion segments might be on Monday nights only. Didn't see him on there Tuesday-Friday last week, but he's back in studio tonight for the discussion segments.
  20. I don't think we've discussed this, or at least, if we did, I certainly missed it... Haley Meier officially joined Fox Weather as a full-time meteorologist/multi-media journalist, effective July 24th. https://www.adweek.com/tvnewser/fox-weather-names-haley-meier-as-full-time-meteorologist-and-multi-media-journalist/531034/ She was the inaugural recipient of the Fox Weather scholarship program in partnership with Mississippi State University. As part of that program, she appeared occasionally on Fox Weather this past spring, reporting on severe weather events in the southern US. Now that she has graduated, she is taking a full-time position with Fox Weather. Her official bio refers to her as "on-air meteorologist" https://www.foxweather.com/person/m/haley-meier I guess we'll see if she appears primarily in the field, primarily in studio, or both. Kinda makes it sound like both.
  21. I saw that they were indeed live during that timeslot today due to severe weather. When I tuned in during the 2pm ET hour, it was Kiyana solo. No idea if someone else hosted the earlier hours or if Kiyana was solo the entire time.
  22. As of today, Kendall was on the pre-recorded America's Weather Center while Michael was off. It seems like on the days they're both present, one of them gets assigned to America's Weather Center while the other one of them gets assigned to fill-in on any other random show on a given day.
  23. Wow, another new development from the "How can we fill the schedule with more hours of prerecorded programming?" Department... Tonight, for Fox Weather Live, they did they 6pm and 7pm ET hours live from Studio A as usual, but then at 8pm, they moved to Studio W not for a fully-live show, but rather, for a live-to-tape show that would then re-air at 9pm ET. Tonight's live-to-tape show brought former host Nick Kosir back into a more involved role, as he was featured in studio for discussion segments (a la Weather Command) at both :20 and :50 past the hour. My take: 1) Not happy about even more erosion of fully-live shows. 2) If Nick being there for discussion segments is the new normal, I'm fine with that. He thrives at discussion segments, same way he thrives at reporting on fun segments in the field, and it would be cool to have him back on his old show with Marissa in this new capacity (with Steve in the middle). 3) If this live-to-tape thing is permanent for the 8pm and 9pm ET hours, then it's time to ditch the Fox Weather Live moniker for those hours, and they should revive the Fox Weather @ Night branding for this show instead. Side note: The fully-live editions of Fox Weather Live at 6pm and 7pm ET now use the daytime graphics that are used on the weekend morning version of the show, while the live-to-tape editions of Fox Weather Live at 8pm and 9pm ET retain the nighttime graphics. I assume that will change back to the all-nighttime motif as we head into the fall/winter.
  24. The program guide has been updated to reflect America's Weather Center being divided into 30-minute blocks (all replays of the 12:00pm-12:30pm ET live show). Not good news for those of us who want live programming during the midday hours. On weekdays, I generally only watched the network live during my lunch break. Now that the entire show is pre-recorded, I have very little interest in watching something they recorded 2 hours prior.
  25. John Marshall actually departed from Fox Weather in September 2022. Looks like he's been doing his own thing on social media ever since.
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