Hey! Television stations! If you need to save some money, then fire your weather departments. I could really live without their tap-dancing, cheerleading, tarot reading routine every time a dark cloud aligns itself over the state. Just a 20 second blurb showing the daily & 5 day forecast. A la "local-on-the-8's" style on the weather channel.
I know this may come as a shock to some of you in the television industry but times are changing. audible gasping here. Your industry may need to look past the boomers and turn towards the next generation. The local newscast has had the same format since, oh, I don't know, 1950. Opening remarks, national news bits/ politics, commercial. Deaths/ Robberies/ local child abduction, tease of upcoming weather, commercial. Weather, dancing, dancing, dancing, jokes with the anchor, commercial. Finally, local stories that, if lucky, have some connection to national news story (resident had a 3rd cousin who narrowly missed Christmas Day/Detroit flight), tease to watch at 10... commercial.
YAWN. No wonder people go to the internet for news.
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