Re: Weather guys and gals

["Mission Control" <miscon@miscon.net>]

I do know of one Boston radio station in the early 90's that wanted to increase their "weather image" (you gotta love those focus groups!). An engineer with that station, who had some previous on-air exposure was asked to become their "Weather Reporter" (later upgraded to "Weather Analyst"). He did his "reports" live, in-studio, as part of that station's morning show. He combined weather reports from the wires, NOAA, and Bob Copeland's early morning television forecasts. No mention of any degree or affiliation was given, relying mostly, I think, on the impression that most folks do believe that weather-people are accredited.

Mike

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From: "Sean Smyth" <ssmyth@suscom.net>
Date:  Wed, 27 Aug 2003 17:22:25 -0400

>How many of the weather people we see on TV are truly meteorologists? And
>how many are not? When growing up and being spoonfed Channel 5's newscasts,
>I got so used to seeing the little 'ams' logo next to Dick Albert's name
>(does he look old now or what?) that I presumed all TV weatherpersons were
>meteorologists.
>
>But lately I've been listening to radio weather reports from TV newscasters
>where some of the weather folks toss in the meteorologist tag before their
>name, and others don't. It's just made me curious ...
>
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