HSV cheesehead 88 Posted December 6, 2023 Share Posted December 6, 2023 I wonder if they are going to invest more in their augmented reality sets/improve on them with these renovations to the main studio. Speaking of which, are any parts of their AR sets physically real? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spring Rubber 612 Posted December 7, 2023 Share Posted December 7, 2023 9 hours ago, HSV cheesehead said: I wonder if they are going to invest more in their augmented reality sets/improve on them with these renovations to the main studio. Speaking of which, are any parts of their AR sets physically real? It's just one big green screen room, essentially. There's no physical elements used, at least not in any of the live stuff. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TennTV1983 743 Posted December 7, 2023 Share Posted December 7, 2023 (edited) 11 hours ago, HSV cheesehead said: I wonder if they are going to invest more in their augmented reality sets/improve on them with these renovations to the main studio. Speaking of which, are any parts of their AR sets physically real? Half of The Weather Channel's main studio is hard set while the rest is a massive chroma key area for their Immersive Mixed Reality (IMR) segments. There are no physical elements over in the chroma area as everything on screen is computer-generated. Edited December 7, 2023 by TennTV1983 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Georgie56 3066 Posted March 24 Share Posted March 24 The digital meteorologists have been laid off (the TV mets are staying). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spring Rubber 612 Posted March 25 Share Posted March 25 19 hours ago, Georgie56 said: The digital meteorologists have been laid off (the TV mets are staying). Looks like this is probably an effect of IBM selling The Weather Company to private equity. Looks like the deal closed on Feb 1st, and just like that, the digital mets were gone after only one month. https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20240201709190/en/Francisco-Partners-Completes-Acquisition-of-The-Weather-Company It's a shame for everyone who lost their job in this process. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walsh.ryanmj 0 Posted March 30 Share Posted March 30 On 3/25/2024 at 2:20 PM, Spring Rubber said: Looks like this is probably an effect of IBM selling The Weather Company to private equity. Looks like the deal closed on Feb 1st, and just like that, the digital mets were gone after only one month. https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20240201709190/en/Francisco-Partners-Completes-Acquisition-of-The-Weather-Company It's a shame for everyone who lost their job in this process. Damn shame. I'm amazed at how people do this too - just stand in the middle of a bunch of green and they're able to maneuver the screen and all the apps and coherently give a forecast. Maybe we'll all get used to it with AR in the future Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Georgie56 3066 Posted Friday at 03:37 AM Share Posted Friday at 03:37 AM More layoffs, among them long-runner Mike Seidel. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spring Rubber 612 Posted Friday at 05:48 AM Share Posted Friday at 05:48 AM 2 hours ago, Georgie56 said: More layoffs, among them long-runner Mike Seidel. Truly sad to see one of the longest tenured on-air staffers go, and I feel for all of the folks behind the scenes that lost their jobs today, on the 42nd anniversary of the network, no less. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Newsjunkie24 503 Posted yesterday at 05:17 PM Share Posted yesterday at 05:17 PM It stinks to see Mike go. He was so great all those years at TWC, and you'd think with how many years he was there, Byron would want to keep him. He was a very hard worker and had so many great moments on the air. I know he's 68, so I'm not sure what's next with him, but it's still awful. It'd only be worse if Jim Cantore was among the layoffs, but I don't see that ever happening. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spring Rubber 612 Posted yesterday at 05:40 PM Share Posted yesterday at 05:40 PM 20 minutes ago, Newsjunkie24 said: It stinks to see Mike go. He was so great all those years at TWC, and you'd think with how many years he was there, Byron would want to keep him. He was a very hard worker and had so many great moments on the air. I know he's 68, so I'm not sure what's next with him, but it's still awful. It'd only be worse if Jim Cantore was among the layoffs, but I don't see that ever happening. Yeah, Jim is absolutely the only pre-1995 on-air talent who is protected from layoffs. Pretty much everyone else from that pre-1995 era has been laid off sometime during the NBC era or the Allen Media era from 2008-Present. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nickp 296 Posted 23 hours ago Share Posted 23 hours ago I consider mike seidel to be staple of my childhood when I watched the weather channel for fun Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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