Spring Rubber

On 6/19/2025 at 5:01 PM, nathannah said:

Which means she manages sales for a pharmaceutial company and goes around medical facilities selling physicians on their drugs (Wikipedia says they have a chloesterol drug). Probably a lot easier money and schedule for her.

As someone who used to work in a few different medical facilities, I enjoyed the free lunches!

Another thing I noticed, on a positive note, is that when Haley Meier fills in earlier during the day, they're now having fill-in hosts (notably Ari Sarsalari) fill in on Fox Weather @ Night, rather than skip that program all together.

Somewhere between 6/3/2025 and 6/8/2025, Kendall Smith was removed from the Fox Weather Personalities page.

I can't seem to find any videos featuring her after 6/3/2025.

On 5/16/2025 at 8:25 AM, NBC 5 Chicago said:

Alex Wilson posted on Facebook that she and Mike are alternating weeks and wont be together until some time in June. This is due to severe weather and one of them would be on after Weather Unfiltered for coverage when needed. They're basically in standby mode. 

 

The schedules day to day have been crazy. I believe this is due to the simple fact that people are taking time off.  With Chris and Jacqui's exit that leaves them a little short so there has been a lot of shifting around when one is off or they just go to a 2 anchor format. 

Apparently June 2nd was the day. The full Weather Unfiltered team has been together today and yesterday.

On 5/29/2025 at 5:24 AM, TheRolyPoly said:

FOX Weather has brought back Night Light but in a whole new way.

 

Its in a new 24/7 weather stream on YouTube called FOX Weather Chill.

 

 

Nice, it's Fox Weather Daylight!

21 hours ago, Dave Lampstein said:

Normally I find a lot of the criticism about Fox Weather to be a little petty, but was kind of surprised having it on this afternoon that I don't believe they were live (during Fox Weather Live of all shows) at all and had no coverage of the tornadic storms blowing through the Washington DC area. Weird.

Do we know why they were not live on a weekday? Were they just airing pre-recorded weather programming from a few hours prior, or...?

TWC really should have done full coverage of the severe weather from 10pm-2am ET last night, given how horrible the tornado outbreak was, but alas, they did not. Just occasional break-ins with Mike Bettes.

Wanted to give a quick update on what's been happening at TWC ever since the departure of Chris Warren and Jacqui Jeras... and actually some changes that happened slightly before that as well.

Starting I believe the week of March 17th, if memory serves correctly, Weather Unfiltered was reduced to a two-person show. Dr. Knabb is the only constant on the show now. On any given night, he hosts the show alongside either Mike Bettes or Alex Wilson, but not both. There doesn't seem to be any noticeable pattern. I've seen Mike and Alex swap from week-to-week or sometimes mid-week. If Dr. Knabb is on vacation, which he is right now, then Mike and Alex will host the show together, as they did this past Friday, Monday, and Tuesday. With that being said, now that neither Mike Bettes nor Alex Wilson are on the network full-time, does anyone know if they're covering the local Allen stations, or if they've simply been cut back to part-time?

With all of these cutbacks, the hosts of the 10am-2pm AMHQ and the hosts of the 2pm-6pm TWC Live are now responsible for sliding down the schedule to cover any gaps. It seems that in general, Jen Carfagno stays put on the 10am-2pm AMHQ, but over the past several weeks, Alex Wallace and Dr. Greg Postel have repeatedly been tasked with hosting the 2pm-6pm block if Chris Bruin or Felicia Combs are out. Sometimes there are also double swaps, such as today, with Mike Bettes and Dr. Knabb both out, Felicia Combs slid down to the 6pm-10pm Weather Unfiltered block to cover for them, and Dr. Postel slid down into the 2pm-6pm block to cover for Felicia.

On weekends, the any one of the hosts of Weekend Recharge (Paul Goodloe, Molly McCollum, or Lynette Charles) are responsible for covering the 6am-10am America's Weekend Headquarters shift if either Kelly Cass or Reynolds Wolf are out. If that happens, then Weekend Recharge is reduced to a two-person show for the day.

On 4/16/2025 at 1:40 PM, Horizon said:

 

Well, the trend has been (mainly with former news anchors) starting their own platforms, Substack, Podcasts, etc.

 

She jumped on the podcast bandwagon, but also did something that may surprise some of you. She started her own AI clone to provide her own Weather AI company in partnership with The Weather Company.

Man, this is so weird to watch, and what the heck are all of the AI-generated thumbnails that look nothing like her?

So Chris and Jacqui are both out after being removed from Storm Center a little over 5 months ago. The fact that they both left at almost the same time tells me that both of them were not being renewed by TWC.

As for the Allen station hits, I'm told that Carl Parker and Todd Borek are two of the OCMs doing those hits. Not sure if any others are involved.

With Chris and Jacqui gone, plus Carl and Todd focusing all efforts on the local hits, plus Jim Cantore and Alex Wilson off today, TWC went with a super bizarre OCM lineup for today's severe weather coverage.

AMHQ Shift 1: Stephanie Abrams, Jordan Steele, and Reynolds Wolf

AMHQ Shift 2: Jen Carfagno and Molly McCollum

TWC Live: Alex Wallace and Felicia Combs

Weather Unfiltered: Chris Bruin and Dr. Rick Knabb

Extra 10pm-2am ET shift: Dr. Greg Postel and Mike Bettes

So apparently the strategy was to move everyone downward from their normal timeslots just to fill out the schedule.

Somewhere within the past ??? number of weeks, the weekend 6am--9am ET show was rebranded to Weather Command Weekend. Of course, this literally makes no sense given that the weekday edition of Weather Command remains an 8am-12pm ET show.

Would have made a lot more sense to keep the weekend 6am-9am ET branded as Fox Weather First Weekend while rebranding the 9am-2pm ET show to Weather Command Weekend, but it doesn't seem like Fox Weather can make many sensible decisions lately.

Well, this is a shocker. 14 years after the CBS/TBS/TNT/TruTV deal began, CBS finally released an official video on YouTube with the 2011-Present March Madness theme song.

Curiously, the video contains the music on loop for 1 hour. However, it's definitely not the full theme song, as some core components are missing, like this part.

From TWC's standpoint, are the mets who are doing the local hits the same mets that are used on the national network, or are they using a different bunch?

I think a happy medium would be to cover all of the day's news in the A block while doing longer-form stories the rest of the show.

22 minutes ago, JTT said:

Will another network step in to get this part of the deal from ESPN?  NBC, perhaps?  Sunday Night Baseball, Football, & Basketball.  Sports programming year around.

With the NBA Playoffs happening April through June and Sunday Night Football starting in September, I don't think NBC would be a great partner if MLB wants their games to be carried on the mothership.

Yep, the leaked score graphic is real, and it's as ugly as the leaked images indicated.

For the game broadcast, they are indeed using lower thirds that match the leaked scorebug, totally different from pregame.

32 minutes ago, NYAZSporty said:

Well, it's most definitely not BS now, seems legit. 

 

This looks horrible.

11 hours ago, CTrey98 said:

Well, believe it. FOX is debuting a new graphics package on Sunday for Super Bowl LIX after only two seasons with the previous package. The new scorebug design is definitely a surprise. Looks like they are going back to the simple boxed look from 2017.

 

https://x.com/CTreySports/status/1887621933711433934

 

I'll have to wait until I see it in hi-res, but from this initial look, I don't like it.

1 hour ago, HSV cheesehead said:

Maybe CNN is preparing for his retirement

I guess so... I'm just surprised that they didn't have him retire in his usual timeslot... just would have seemed fitting.

11 hours ago, Georgie56 said:

Leland Vittert moves to 9pm.

Changes are effective February 10th. Vargas moves to 7pm ET, and NewsNation Now with Connell McShane expands to three hours to cover the 5pm ET hour that Vargas's show currently occupies.

Really surprised they're actually not adding a new personality to the schedule.

Fox Weather is toast. The most dangerous tornado outbreak of the fall/winter season is underway, and Fox Weather dropped coverage at 8pm or 9pm ET (not sure which), because welp, it's a weekend during the holiday season, and ya know, 9pm is pretty late, so we'll be back live at 6am to assess the aftermath.

Even TWC, which originally planned on also dropping coverage at 8pm ET, added an additional live shift from 8pm to ??? (still live as of now at 9:37pm ET) when they saw how serious the tornado outbreak was going to be.

I don't think the higher-ups really care about Fox Weather anymore. It seems like they're just treating it as another shovelware FAST network that plays whatever they feel like showing in between constant ad breaks. I think 2025 will be the year that Fox Weather drastically cuts back even its weekday programming schedule, with additional staff cuts.

Well that's certainly going to create a lot of holes in their lineup. He had Monday-Friday shows on FNC and Fox Business, as well as a 2-hour Saturday morning show on FNC.

He hosted the 4pm ET weekday hour on FNC basically since the inception of time.

The USA Today article says that FNC will roll out a new programming schedule in January, with guest hosts filling his shows in the interim.

Looks like Tom Niziol didn't return at Fox Weather for this winter season. His bio has been removed from their site.

57 minutes ago, TheRolyPoly said:

I don't know if anyone else has seen this before but... Pattrn's 24/7 FAST channel is going away. That's in addition to TWC en Espanol going away sometime soon.

 

https://deadline.com/2024/11/pattrn-allen-media-group-climate-fast-channel-shutting-down-1236178497/

Nope, I wasn't aware. Thanks for sharing.

Another thing I've noticed lately is that if one of the AMHQ Weekend hosts is off, TWC is sliding Molly up from Weekend Recharge to host the AMHQ shift, rather than calling someone else in to host, as was the norm in the past. They're doing anything they can to slash costs right now.

3 hours ago, SF1964 said:

Jacqui Jeras was on today's (11/8) Morning/Afternoon/Daily Headquarters or whatever they call the show between 10AM and 2PM.

Indeed, and Chris Warren was on the 2-6pm show Thursday and Friday of this week, alongside the other Chris. (Felicia co-hosted Mon-Wed)

I wonder if Chris Warren and Jacqui Jeras are both per diem at this point, or what the deal is.