Spring Rubber

Looks on this weekend morning/early afternoon, Fox Weather Live is taking after the weekday program by the same name: more people, less live... I started watching during the 12pm ET hour, and the show was already sans "LIVE" tag on the bug. Unsure if they just did a single live hour at 10am ET or if they also did the 11am hour live. Either way, the hours of live programming just keep eroding more and more by the week.

Curious to see if she returns to Weekend Recharge and if Lynette remains on that show as well.

Due to today's severe weather outbreak, America's Weather Center is fully-live today for all 3 hours. Bob Van Dillen is joining Kendall today; however, they're not being billed as co-hosts. Instead, Kendall is the sole "host", and she tosses to Bob occasionally for updates. She's at the desk, while he's standing at the video screen. Looks like the "one host" ideology of Weather Command and Fox Weather Now has rubbed off on America's Weather Center. That leaves Fox Weather First and Fox Weather Live as the only weekday shows that still have actual co-hosts.

I believe this is only featured during the extra time on weekend mornings when Fox Business is still in break, beyond the normal time that the stream would be in break. AFAIK, the standard stream breaks still use just the countdown clock (on streaming devices) or the "Download the Fox Weather App" slate if watching on their website.

On weekend mornings during the hours that there's a Fox Business simulcast, Fox Weather First Weekend always takes longer breaks than normal Fox Weather programming in order to account for the longer breaks that take place on cable. To date, on the streaming side, Fox Weather always filled this extra break time with a musical interlude featuring live camera shots from cities around the country. Looks like this weekend, they've finally decided to change it up and air actual weather information during the musical interludes, which is way more useful than the live camera shots.

The discussion desk grew to 4 people tonight with Rick Reichmuth joining the fray. (Yet we still can't have fully-live programming from 12pm-3pm ET anymore...)

Dang, that's unfortunate. I never liked the way they postured Ian as the host of the show and Brigit as the "second fiddle". Didn't seem fair to take Brigit out of a host role and move her into that type of position. I wonder if that had anything to do with her departure.

Nick is back on the show for discussion segments tonight, so I guess maybe it's just "whenever Nick's around" rather than any particular night.

Looks like the Nick Kosir discussion segments might be on Monday nights only. Didn't see him on there Tuesday-Friday last week, but he's back in studio tonight for the discussion segments.

I don't think we've discussed this, or at least, if we did, I certainly missed it... Haley Meier officially joined Fox Weather as a full-time meteorologist/multi-media journalist, effective July 24th. https://www.adweek.com/tvnewser/fox-weather-names-haley-meier-as-full-time-meteorologist-and-multi-media-journalist/531034/ She was the inaugural recipient of the Fox Weather scholarship program in partnership with Mississippi State University. As part of that program, she appeared occasionally on Fox Weather this past spring, reporting on severe weather events in the southern US. Now that she has graduated, she is taking a full-time position with Fox Weather. Her official bio refers to her as "on-air meteorologist" https://www.foxweather.com/person/m/haley-meier I guess we'll see if she appears primarily in the field, primarily in studio, or both. Kinda makes it sound like both.

I saw that they were indeed live during that timeslot today due to severe weather. When I tuned in during the 2pm ET hour, it was Kiyana solo. No idea if someone else hosted the earlier hours or if Kiyana was solo the entire time.

As of today, Kendall was on the pre-recorded America's Weather Center while Michael was off. It seems like on the days they're both present, one of them gets assigned to America's Weather Center while the other one of them gets assigned to fill-in on any other random show on a given day.

Wow, another new development from the "How can we fill the schedule with more hours of prerecorded programming?" Department... Tonight, for Fox Weather Live, they did they 6pm and 7pm ET hours live from Studio A as usual, but then at 8pm, they moved to Studio W not for a fully-live show, but rather, for a live-to-tape show that would then re-air at 9pm ET. Tonight's live-to-tape show brought former host Nick Kosir back into a more involved role, as he was featured in studio for discussion segments (a la Weather Command) at both :20 and :50 past the hour. My take: 1) Not happy about even more erosion of fully-live shows. 2) If Nick being there for discussion segments is the new normal, I'm fine with that. He thrives at discussion segments, same way he thrives at reporting on fun segments in the field, and it would be cool to have him back on his old show with Marissa in this new capacity (with Steve in the middle). 3) If this live-to-tape thing is permanent for the 8pm and 9pm ET hours, then it's time to ditch the Fox Weather Live moniker for those hours, and they should revive the Fox Weather @ Night branding for this show instead. Side note: The fully-live editions of Fox Weather Live at 6pm and 7pm ET now use the daytime graphics that are used on the weekend morning version of the show, while the live-to-tape editions of Fox Weather Live at 8pm and 9pm ET retain the nighttime graphics. I assume that will change back to the all-nighttime motif as we head into the fall/winter.

The program guide has been updated to reflect America's Weather Center being divided into 30-minute blocks (all replays of the 12:00pm-12:30pm ET live show). Not good news for those of us who want live programming during the midday hours. On weekdays, I generally only watched the network live during my lunch break. Now that the entire show is pre-recorded, I have very little interest in watching something they recorded 2 hours prior.

John Marshall actually departed from Fox Weather in September 2022. Looks like he's been doing his own thing on social media ever since.

The pre-recorded format of America's Weather Center continued last week Tuesday-Friday (Monday 7/10 was the only fully live day), and here again today Monday 7/17, they're still doing the pre-recorded solo-hosted show. Not a fan of the direction this is going. It's starting to look like live editions of America's Weather Center are being phased out. We're heading back to the late 2021-early 2022 afternoon abyss. Here I would think that people would want to tune in during their lunch breaks and watch live, but maybe their viewership numbers didn't bear that out?

On Saturday 7/14, Bob Van Dillen hosted his first full show. He hosted Fox Weather Live alongside Craig Herrera. Michael, Kiyana, and Rick were all off today, I believe. I was at work and missed basically all of it. Craig and Jane were back together again on Fox Weather First Weekend as well. Craig hosted at least part of both shows, but it's unclear if he did the full 8 hours or not. I kinda doubt that he did. No idea if some of the hours were solo-hosted or if a different meteorologist joined either Jane early in the AM or Bob in the PM hours.

Bon Van Dillen had his first appearance actually presenting the weather on the air today. While Fox Weather Now was hosted by Ian out in the field, Bob was performing the in-studio host duties, at least for the 3pm ET hour. It looks like they switched to Adam Klotz for the 4pm and 5pm hours, as they wanted to ease Bob into the role today. America's Weather Center was back to the pre-recorded solo host nonsense today. Looks like Michael pre-recorded everything very early in the 12pm ET hour, and the same stuff aired over and over throughout the rest of that hour plus the 1pm and 2pm ET hours. Not a fan of this. Hopefully this will stop once Bob is acclimated to full-time host duties.

Forgot to mention - regarding this past weekend... Kiyana on the early shift with Craig and Jane on the second shift with Michael and Rick appears to be permanent...for now at least. Another change this past weekend (July 8-9) is that Fox Weather First Weekend moved into Studio A (the former Fox Business Studio), matching the Monday-Thursday iteration of the program, while Fox Weather Live remained in its usual Studio W home. As you may have noticed, for both Fox Weather First and America's Weather Center, I've mentioned that the Monday-Thursday programs originate from Studio A. Well, as it turns out, Studio A is still used by FNC on Fridays to pre-record certain weekend programming. So, on Fridays, Fox Weather uses their old setup of shooting Fox Weather First in Studio W and shooting America's Weather Center in Studio K. By 6pm, FNC is done using Studio A, so the Friday edition of Fox Weather Live uses Studio A just as the show does throughout the rest of the weekdays. That being said, I'm not a huge fan of Fox Weather First being confined to Studio A. It's your big morning commute show - so why put them in a tiny studio rather than using your biggest and best studio? From everything I can tell, there's no tear-down/set-up involved for Weather Command, and they seem to do perfectly fine with having the Friday editions of both programs originate from Studio W. On the other hand, they do remove several cameras, monitors, and sometimes even the anchor desk during Fox Weather Now, so it makes sense for the shows that bookend it - America's Weather Center and Fox Weather Live - to use an alternate studio while the set-up and teardown processes are taking place. That being said, let's compare the look of America's Weather Center using Studio A versus Studio K: Studio A (Monday-Thursday) Studio K (Friday - and previously every weekday prior to April 2023) Personally, I'm a fan of seeing physical set pieces and not just video wall backgrounds, so I much prefer the studio K setup for the show, and I wish they'd go back to it Monday-Friday. Plus, studio K has real windows along the right side of the studio, and it was nice getting to see an outside view during the midday hours.

Ah ok, so this show is going to be a full-time commitment. Makes sense. Thanks for the info.

If Sarah Jindra is hosting, and if she's also going to be staying on the morning news, is it safe to say that Spotlight Chicago will probably be pre-recorded, either earlier in the day (that is, if the show will film daily), or perhaps well in advance (if they'll film multiple episodes at a time and churn them out later)?

https://www.foxweather.com/watch/play-681e8dd62000a01 Looks like for Bob Van Dillen's debut today (video linked above), they did an introduction segment for him on Weather Command; however, they didn't have him host any shows today. Amy, Kendall, and Kelly were off today, and Ian is on assignment in Vermont covering the flooding live on scene. Stephen filled in for Amy as host of Weather Command (Michael and Jason split duties sitting in Stephen's seat today). Kiyana filled in for Kendall, Brigit filled in for Ian (with Adam Klotz taking Brigit's normal role), and Fox Weather Live with Steve and Marissa is airing in a pre-recorded loop in place of Kelly's show. America's Weather Center was a normally fully-live show with Michael and Kiyana today.

Remember the early days of Fox Weather (Oct 2021-Mar 2022) when they didn't have enough staffing to provide live programming during the early afternoon hours on weekdays? Back then, they would go into automated weather maps during the early afternoon. Well, it looks like we're seeing a variation of that this week. From what I've seen, both the Wednesday 7/5 and Friday 7/7 editions of America's Weather Center took on a somewhat pre-recorded type of format. I *think* but am not entirely sure that on Wednesday, Craig Herrera solo-hosted the entire show; however, show was presented in short pre-recorded chunks, including weird stuff like having a top-of-the-hour teaser and opener at :15 past. I didn't see any live radar or live weather data. All of the maps shown were either forecast maps or maps explaining weather that happened earlier in the day. Thursday 7/6 was a normal fully-live show with Kendall and Craig together. Today 7/7 was weird because both Craig and Kendall hosted separately. Craig hosted the 1pm ET hour. Kendall hosted the 2pm ET hour (no idea who hosted the 12pm ET hour). The show was produced similarly to the Wednesday show, where there was no live radar or live weather data, but it felt like they were updating the segments throughout the day, as they were providing the SPC forecast outlook updates as they were released during the course of the program. Both the Wednesday and Friday solo-hosted shows were produced entirely from the Expert Desk in Studio W using a single-cam setup. There were no secondary cameras and no wideshots of the studio used at all during the program. The Thursday normal fully-live show was produced in the former Fox Business studio, which has been the normal Monday-Thursday home of America's Weather Center for the past several weeks. (Side note: Jason Fraser recently noted on air last week that the former Fox Business studio that they now use is known as Studio A)

This almost makes me think he's destined for Weather Command. They've been having a hard time consistently having three personalities on that show every day (oftentimes falling back on just two people on the desk as of late), so maybe this will give them the opportunity to finally have three consistent personalities on that show for a change. I could be wrong, maybe they do give him a lower-profile position on America's Weather Center and let Michael and Craig split the week on Weather Command again. A third possibility is putting Bob on Fox Weather First and having Jason join the Weather Command team instead. Guess we'll find out on Monday.

Yeah, nothing's permanent, but I guess we'll say what's "official" for now. Yeah, Stephen is officially on Weather Command with Amy, while Brigit is officially on Fox Weather Now with Ian. Technically speaking, Amy and Ian are the sole official hosts of their shows, so idk what to even call Stephen and Brigit. They're not hosts, but they appear constantly throughout both programs to the extent that they might as well be. Today, Fox Weather is going with a shortened weekend-esque holiday schedule as they always do. However, it was mostly the late afternoon and evening hosts, aside from Marissa, who were called to host the holiday shows today. Britta was paired with Steve Bender on Fox Weather First 6am-10am ET today, and then Ian and Brigit hosted Fox Weather Live from 10am-2pm ET. What *is* new today, however, is that starting at 2pm ET, instead of going into long form, they're doing the "untitled overnight loop" show, hosted today in NYC by Ian Oliver, but still produced using the same automation software that's normally used on Kelly's overnight show.