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And don't forget that there isn't as robust an observer network (or even WeatherBug) for smaller markets where you can confidently provide solid number ranges, the weather office has to cover a wider swath of geography with some variation, especially to the northwest of Marquette, and that this is usually an area that measures snow in the tens of inches rather than fractions. These broader ranges are pretty well expected and were still generally used in even middle markets up to the 2000s. Also WLUC does more detailed regional breakdowns outside the 7-day, along with with ski reports, so the finer details are in the forecast, if not in that graphic. It's certainly better to provide a range rather than what stations do with those '(station number) degree guarantee', which pointlessly forces mets to have a solid number for the next day or else (most of them contribute to charity if they hit it but like most of these gimmicks such as 'round up for the hungry', just donate the money and do promos about the big donation).

OMG this was waaaaaaaayyyyyy overdue.... They were using a package from, when late 2000s, early 10s? One thing that didn't change: Lazy 7-day Forecasts -- For years and years, their 7-day forecasts just look like this.. A suggestion of an even number or 10s, 20s, 30s, etc..

For those of you that still care and are interested in such things, on this day thirty years ago, the Big Network Switch of the mid-90s came to Milwaukee. Channels 6 (WITI), 24 (WCGV), and 58 (WDJT) were affected, as Fox moved to 6 from 24, 24 spends a month as an independent (again) before joining UPN at its launch, and 58 goes from an also-ran independent to the sixth station in the market (fifth as a fulltime affiliate) to air CBS programming. Even though WDJT was already airing certain CBS programs that WITI was preempting at the time, the affiliation agreement between 58 and CBS came practically at the last minute, days before WITI was to switch to Fox. WDJT's tenure with CBS has been long and by far the longest relationship the network has had with any station in Milwaukee television history; WITI's thirty-year relationship with Fox is their longest relationship with any network in their 68-year history. Channel 6 spent most of its first three years as an independent before starting its first of two stints with CBS in 1959, then swapped with WISN-TV to carry ABC programming in 1961, and then returned to CBS in 1977. With those two stints, WITI spent a combined 19 years with the Eye.

This is not a joke or an Onion story. To be fair, she is a former journalist. To not be fair, she's destroyed her credibility by getting into politics and getting into her political views. https://apnews.com/article/trump-kari-lake-voice-of-america-ambassadors-e894cf2e84791b35528baa0cbdd66b22

He’s off Fridays at 11pm. He still does the 5pm and 6pm on Fridays.

They actually debuted it weeks ago - right after the election. NBC expanded this space and used it for their election night coverage - that’s where the curved video wall came from (but they used it with AR to make it look taller). Ana Cabrera and Katy Tur use it most days for their respective reports shows.

0s° mean plus single digits (1° to 9°) and -0s° mean minus single digits (-1° to -9°). It doesn’t make sense to use categorical temperature designations for the highs and lows since Michigan’s UP isn’t very large (not even markets like Los Angeles and San Francisco that have regional climate variability have stations that do this). Extended forecasts usually show forecast temps for the station’s primary cities of service/largest city.

MSNBC & NBC News unveiled an updated studio 4E last night, it appears Ari Melber was the first to use it. The former set had 2 video walls meeting at a 90 degree corner and a moveable show/network vertical branding banner. Now the space has been updated with a curved video wall that runs along the entire space, a new dark wood geometrical design piece that incorporates the NBC peacock and a color changing peacock motif display near the glass doors, they also replicated the desk MSNBC uses in studio 3A just with different finishes. Overall a huge improvement, it’s been really interesting how that small space has evolved since its introduction in 2016. Only caps I have as of now.

Why did they let Gray keep WYOW anyway? And isn't their application for a new Eagle River station going to complicate things? WKOW and its spawn seem to essentially be the sick men of their markets, although WXOW and WQOW at least cover both La Crosse and Eau Claire. I'm under the impression that WEAU and WKBT have long focused on Eau Claire and La Crosse near-exclusively.

He should've stayed producing those shows that you see at 2am on various channels

Dallas Fort Woth is a bigger metro area by about a million people. About 8.1 million people call the DFW metro area home. About 7.1 million people call the Houston Metro area home. The only reason Houston is the “biggest” city in Texas by population is because it is—quite literally— the “biggest” city in Texas. Back in the day, before Houston really started growing, the city of Houston annexed as much of the (then undeveloped) land around it as possible. So when developers began to build suburban housing developments in those undeveloped areas—they became part of the city of Houston, rather than becoming a part of a different “suburb” city. Dallas didn’t do that to the same extent. When Dallas began to grow, suburbs like Richardson, Garland, Plano, etc. beat the city of Dallas to annexing undeveloped land into their cities. In total, the City of Houston takes up 665 square miles, with a city population of 2.3. million. The City of Dallas takes up 340.5 square miles. And has a city population of 1.3 million. So the city populations area proportionate to the land area each city takes up. That said, Dallas has far more suburbs than Houston. And also shares a metropolitan region with Fort Worth, another major city with a population nearing one million within its city borders. ill give you another example. Oklahoma City is the 20th largest city in America by population. But it is the 42nd most populous metro area—because it doesn’t have many suburbs. It’s basically just Oklahoma City and a few suburbs. tldr: DFW contains more suburbs than the Houston metro, and has a bigger metro population because of this.

And over at WTOK.... https://www.wtok.com/2024/11/18/wtok-creates-expanded-partnership-with-wlbt/ Aside from the 11am newscast coming from WLBT, the weeknight 10pm newscast will be regionalized with them as well. I'm not sure that means a straight simulcast, or a hybrid of some content coming from Meridian, and other content from Jackson. Weekend newscasts will be at 10pm from Meridian though. It sounds like what WHLT used to be under Media General, originating some content from Hattiesburg while beaming the rest in from Jackson and WJTV. Eventually that was abandoned in favor of a watered-down WJTV newscast "from the state capitol" from Jackson, watered down with some news from Hattiesburg to proclaim their existence. If that's the case with WTOK and WLBT, Jackson is the real loser since you have two local stations watering down local news to cover someone else's. And WAPT stands to be the winner since they can fully cover the Jackson market for their own viewers.