By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com There were 11 hurricanes in 2024, 5 reaching major hurricane status. One, Hurricane Helene, brought unfathomable damage, death and destruction to the western areas of the Carolinas, ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com From a weather-obsessed 14-year-old on local radio to America’s most recognized meteorologist, Tom Skilling has seen it all. Skilling spent 45 years forecasting Chicago’s weather on ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com Brandon Lawson, meteorologist for WJZY, Queen City News, Nexstar’s Fox affiliate in Charotte, has been named the Climate Coverage Champion for the Charlotte area by the ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com WTAE, Hearst’s ABC affiliate in Pittsburgh, announced today that Brian Hutton Jr. will assume the role of weekday meteorologist for Pittsburgh’s Action Weather 4 starting September 1st. Hutton ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com Nearly half of U.S. adults prefer to access local news online, compared to 32% who favor television. Additionally, of those looking online for local news, a ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com In January, Allen Media Group, announced that local weather coverage would be provided by the Allen-owned, Atlanta-based The Weather Channel going forward. This set off an uproar ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com KCAL, CBS Los Angeles launches its groundbreaking AR/VR technology studio, the seventh and most advanced of its kind within the CBS Stations Group. Located in a ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com WBZ CBS Boston and the New England Sports Network (NESN) this week entered into a new bold partnership improving sports and weather coverage ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com Meteorologist Jason Nappi has been a TV meteorologist since 2002 in TV markets from Louisiana to West Virginia, from Maine to New York and from Georgia to ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com Gina De Vecchio has been promoted to Chief Meteorologist, effective immediately, it was announced by Laura Williamson, KSBW’s GM, and Cassady Velasco, KSBW’S news director. De Vecchio ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com Robert Johnson says he knew he was going to be a meteorologist since he was two years old. It’s unlikely he could even pronounce ‘meteorologist’ at that ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com KLST, Nexstar’s CBS affiliate in San Angelo, Texas, aired a half-hour special on Monday, April 14th at 6:30 p.m. and initial data shows a 12.3 rating and 32.5 ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com I’m a fan of real people in testimonial promos for local TV news. We rarely see or hear from the end user of our product, so it’s a ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com WCCO, branded as CBS Minnesota, the CBS-owned affiliate in Minneapolis, used real people in its winter weather promos with the motto, ‘Be prepared to get out there.’ “Our ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com Trevor Birchett has been promoted to chief Meteorologist at WATN/WLMT, Tegna’s ABC and CW affiliates in Memphis. Since joining WATN/WLMT, branded as ABC24 and CW30 in May ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com On Monday morning, March 10, at precisely 9:40, a tornado hit WOFL, the Fox-owned affiliate in Orlando. “We had been covering that storm for about an hour,” says ...
By Paul Greeley, 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com Matt Gray steps up to full-time meteorologist on KXLK’s Good Morning Northwest on March 3. Gray joined the KXLK 4 News Now team in 2021 as a weekend ...
By Paul Greeley, 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com The idea that an accurate weather forecast helps viewers decide what clothes to wear is a clear benefit not many would argue against. And no matter where you live, ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com Bill Martin has been with KTVU, the Fox-owned affiliate in San Francisco, for 33 years. But Martin made the announcement that next month, he will retire. Martin ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com A historic winter storm brought snow to Louisiana and parts of Florida earlier this week. Parts of New Orleans got as much as 10 inches of snow, rivaling ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com For those local TV meteorologists facing uncertainty about their jobs at Allen Media with the announcement of a new local weather initiative with The Weather Channel, a couple broadcast ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com Chuck Lofton, the morning meteorologist on WTHR, Tegna’s NBC affiliate in Indianapolis, is retiring from the station in June 2025, after 40 years of delivering accurate forecasts to ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com Robert Johnson will join WCAU, branded as NBC10, the NBC-owned affiliate in Philadelphia, as a weekday meteorologist starting Monday, January 20. “I’m thrilled to join the NBC10 First Alert ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com WAGA, the Fox-owned affiliate in Atlanta, unveiled the look of their FOX 5 Storm Team with new logo, banners and animations on October 28th during the ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com Abigail Degler joins WMAR, Scripps ABC affiliate in Baltimore, MD as a weekday meteorologist. Degler previously worked as a meteorologist at WJZ in Baltimore for two years. ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com After 42 years, chief meteorologist Tim Deegan announces his retirement from First Coast News, Tegna’s ABC and NBC affiliates in Jacksonville. Deegan will work with the Most Accurate ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com A weather promo posted on LinkedIn by Jeremiah Banks, a marketing producer at WBTV, Gray’s CBS affiliate in Charlotte, after Hurricane Helene hit the Carolinas, uses examples of ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com A testimonial promo posted on LinkedIn by Wes Rodda, the marketing director at WXIA, 11 Alive, Tegna’s NBC affiliate in Atlanta, uses comments by WXIA viewers to thank ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com There is no news more important than weather. It affects everybody all the time but differently depending on where you are. The weather can change from one day ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com In April 2024, CBS launched a national weather network to enhance coverage of critical weather stories at both its owned stations and CBS News. “With extreme weather events ...
In Norfolk, a new meteorologist has been named before the current chief leaves. After 40 years on the air at WAVY-TV, Don Slater is preparing for retirement. He’ll spend a year forecasting at the ...
The newest meteorologist in Hattiesburg, Miss. Is Ryan Mahan. Mahan loves Mississippi weather and had always planned to stay in the state long term, so now he’s here to stay. ”Well, I grew up ...
From Market 24 to 1. ABC 11 meteorologist Brittany Bell is making the move and will become WABC’s next meteorologist. She’s going to join ABC’s flagship station starting this week. Bell has filled in ...
On Tuesday, tornados hit in Weld County, Colorado. And Denver stations covered it from all angles. On the ground, air and of course viewer photos. KDVR reporter Michael Konopasek posted the most insane viewer ...
