Facing Backlash Over Firing Its Meteorologists, Allen Media Group Learns an Important Lesson: Take the ‘Local’ Out of Local TV At Your Own Peril
Handing out pink slips to dozens of beloved small-market local TV news weathercasters would be ill-advised even in the best ...
Meteorologists At Allen Media Group TV Stations Give Emotional Farewells After Nationwide Layoffs
It has been an emotional time for meteorologists who have been laid off at nearly two dozen Allen Media Group television ...
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TV Meteorologist Tears Up On-Air Following Nationwide Layoffs
In an emotional farewell that highlights the changing landscape of local television, weather forecasters across America delivered their final broadcasts last week as The Weather Channel’s parent ...
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Allen Media to centralize weather coverage, drop local meteorologists at TV stations including Rochester, La Crosse
Broadcast stations, which rely on local news to generate profits, have seen viewership fall as more people receive their ...
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Local TV meteorologists deliver tearful farewell as stations replace staff with The Weather Channel feed
“Kevin and I have come into your homes for decades — nearly 37 years for me,” Patrece Dayton, a news anchor in Terre Haute, ...
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Facing Backlash Over Firing Its Meteorologists, Allen Media Group Learns an Important Lesson: Take the ‘Local’ Out of Local TV At Your Own Peril
station WTHI-TV anchors Patrece Dayton and Kevin Orpurt. I had never heard of them, and I’ve never been to Terre Haute, but I could immediately see why that town loved these two — and weren ...