Yup, the movie. For the first time in the WC's 27 year history they are showing a feature film. This Friday we can all get the popcorn a poppin' and curl up on the couch to watch, on the Weather Channel....The Perfect Storm! You know I'm a askin' why. Let's figure this out together. Hmm.....
Well, first some history. In 1961 and prior, network television films were dated or foreign and didn't attract advertisers. On September 23, 1961, NBC pioneered a huge change with "Saturday Night at the Movies" by receiving updated rights to more recently produced films. Basically, they invented the TV Movie, and did it weekly. OK, enough history.
The Weather Channel is doing the same thing, every Friday night in November, they will have a film. The series will be hosted by Jen-Jen and called "The Weather Channel Presents". Seeeee the NBC strategy coming to play. What's next.....MSNBC "Sunday Night at the Movies"?
OK, so let's say you live in the Snowbelt, or heavy precipitation areas, and you want to plan your Friday night. Do you need a rain coat, jacket, snow boots, you know. Well, if you're like me a head out at about 9 or 10, forget using the WC as your guide, especially this Friday, because the only thing you'll see is the Captain of the "Andrea Gail" guiding you into one hell of a big storm.
It's a weather channel Mates!
Thursday, October 29, 2009
Wednesday, October 28, 2009
Guacamole!
Yummy! Today we learned how to make guacamole on the Wake Up With Al Show...awesome! Let's figure out in a minute how this is weather related, but first....let's set the scene:
It's about 6:30 am, chef guy and Al are standing over a huge table of chopped up food and avocado's. Chef guy shows us how to cut open an avocado and pull out the pit with a knife. Then chef guy shows how to scoop out the "meat" of the avocado and puts it all into a bowl. This all takes about 3 precious minutes of my time trying to identify what the weather is going to be like today. He then teases the next segment with "we're going to make 3 different kinds of guacamole" after the break, and it's off to a commercial and another several minutes pass. The sun begins to break the horizon out my window, it's going from dark to light...still no weather.
We come back from the break and it's just a bit of weather and right back to the Food Network...I mean Weather Channel. Now we make 3 different kinds of guacamole and eureka....one of them has pumpkin seeds in it! This must be the weather tie in because Halloween is certainly a weather event, with the trick-or-treating for the kids and all.
So I've seen almost 10 minutes of the WC and most of it has been about food, commercials, and more food. Yeah, there was a little bit of weather, but not just weather.
You know, I just can't think of the last time I woke up and thought"man, I could really go for some Mexican right now"...
That's why we tune in....it's a weather channel!!!!
It's about 6:30 am, chef guy and Al are standing over a huge table of chopped up food and avocado's. Chef guy shows us how to cut open an avocado and pull out the pit with a knife. Then chef guy shows how to scoop out the "meat" of the avocado and puts it all into a bowl. This all takes about 3 precious minutes of my time trying to identify what the weather is going to be like today. He then teases the next segment with "we're going to make 3 different kinds of guacamole" after the break, and it's off to a commercial and another several minutes pass. The sun begins to break the horizon out my window, it's going from dark to light...still no weather.
We come back from the break and it's just a bit of weather and right back to the Food Network...I mean Weather Channel. Now we make 3 different kinds of guacamole and eureka....one of them has pumpkin seeds in it! This must be the weather tie in because Halloween is certainly a weather event, with the trick-or-treating for the kids and all.
So I've seen almost 10 minutes of the WC and most of it has been about food, commercials, and more food. Yeah, there was a little bit of weather, but not just weather.
You know, I just can't think of the last time I woke up and thought"man, I could really go for some Mexican right now"...
That's why we tune in....it's a weather channel!!!!
Tuesday, October 27, 2009
What's up Jen?
This morning I saw Jen Carfagno on doing the news update, no weather, just news. Glad to see they keep the "old school" weather talent around and make them deliver the hard core, national blood and guts.
Now they have to talk about nuclear war, death, health care, Obama and swine flu and the like. And guess what, somehow...it's all just slightly weather related. Do you have to train for that....or just say something like:
Now they have to talk about nuclear war, death, health care, Obama and swine flu and the like. And guess what, somehow...it's all just slightly weather related. Do you have to train for that....or just say something like:
"Today's highs will be so unbelievably freakin' hot, so hot you're skin will peel off, with a low of 1000 degrees. It was also announced today Barack Obama has just gotten the health care bill passed, so don't panic we'll all be OK! Whew, great...now I can get better to croak from the swine flu!
It's a freakin' weather channel!!!!
It's a freakin' weather channel!!!!
Monday, October 26, 2009
Welcome!
Welcome to my rant on the Weather Channel and why I think one of America's best channels got screwed up. We'll explore the whole NBC thing, the Stephanie Abrams thing, the Al Roker thing and much, much more.
We'll also note what's going on today, what you saw and want to contribute to our rant (this is your forum to tell us what you think too) It usually doesn't take long for a screw up, stupid comment (usually on the morning show by you-know-who), hearing the strangest music or getting some weirdly timed business update.....it's a Weather Channel dammit!
We'll also do some polls we're sure will get some feathers ruffled, post some cool pic's and throw in some curves along the way. We hope you enjoy, contribute and let's all get the Weather Channel back to being a weather channel. Enjoy!
We'll also note what's going on today, what you saw and want to contribute to our rant (this is your forum to tell us what you think too) It usually doesn't take long for a screw up, stupid comment (usually on the morning show by you-know-who), hearing the strangest music or getting some weirdly timed business update.....it's a Weather Channel dammit!
We'll also do some polls we're sure will get some feathers ruffled, post some cool pic's and throw in some curves along the way. We hope you enjoy, contribute and let's all get the Weather Channel back to being a weather channel. Enjoy!
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