Why must local tv news constantly replace anchors & meteorologists?

[CrackRabbit]

houston hasn't really had this problem with the main anchors and weather people. beat reporters and off-hour news anchors get a lot of churn, i'd imagine.

Houston is an odd market, I mean they kept this guy around for years after he should have retired.

 

[Eureka]

The constant upward/downward mobility of on-air people. Great ratings? Audition for a job at a bigger station. Crappy ratings? Sorry, you may go home. Good but not great ratings, and surveys show people like you better than the person on the competing local channel? Come back for another year.

Only ratings matter. Not forecasting accuracy.

And in the case of one female news anchor in town, you don't even have to know how to read that well. You can fumble over words night after night and keep your job for years.

Do meteorologists even do the forecasting? I was always under the assumption that most of them just read off of compiled data from elsewhere.

 

[Vic Vega]

Who cares? Once a year there's a new 20 something weather babe. What's the problem here?

 

[Vic Vega]

Mother of god...

 

[HamburgerBoy]

On one of our AM stations we had an awesome and hilarious news dude for a few years. I was saddened when he suddenly disappeared.

 

[HeXen]

Mother of god...

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The only weather babe i would ever need

 

[IronWing]

One has not truly experienced a weather forecast until one has listened to Fearless Frank Faulconer.

 

[Drako]

NBC Bay Area meteorologist changed a few years ago.. for the better. http://www.nbcbayarea.com/weather/bios/Christina-Loren-Meteorologist-112629429.html :awe:

I wonder what she looked like before the boob and nose jobs that she's had :hmm:

 

[bobeedee]

I can't stand the constant jiggering around, especially when it comes to the all important early morning meteorologists. Some are more accurate than others.

In Boston, Dylan Dryer jumped ship & went to the Today show. Now JC Monahan is leaving 'cvb to do Chronicle of all things.

Do not want a weather clown from Faux News, thankyouverymuch.

Boy I really do miss Dylan in the morning.

 

[bearxor]

If you make it to a top 20 market, odds are you're staying.

If you're below that, your goal is to move to a higher market in any position you can get.

For instance, let's say you're an anchor in Columbia, SC, the #79 market. Through your close proximity and covering similar areas, you know some guys at stations in Charlotte, the #24 market. Someone at one of their stations leaves and you send your tape to the news editor. You take a mid day reporting job on a 3rd place network with 3 minutes of camera time a day. Maybe, you work your way to the evening news shift. Maybe you meet some new friends in Atlanta, the #8 market. Rinse, repeat.

Same goes for weather anchors. You may be chief meteorologist at KAMR in Amarillo, TX for a few years, but that doesn't mean you don't take the job at WOWK in Charleston, WV stepping down to morning meteorologist when it comes up. And when the opportunity to move up to Charlotte from there comes up, you take it for the better visibility in a larger market (that's a 131 to 65 to 24 move).

 

[grrl]

This is a complaint?

 

[mmntech]

You're missing out.

MotionMan

One of the weathermen at work had once said "hot cock of cocoa" on air, instead of cup. Even funnier because he's black. Clip was on YouTube but I can't find it anymore.

Broadcast media is an unstable business for presenters, so you're always chasing new opportunities. Local news doesn't pay much. Many also get bitten by the fame bug.

 

[bearxor]

Local news doesn't pay much. Many also get bitten by the fame bug.

Local news is a cesspool of people with dreams and aspirations they can never achieve. Their spirit is usually broken within the first year.

Not that I would know...

 

[Childs]

I grew up in San Francisco and moved to Southern California for college. Except for a couple old-timers who have retired (I miss Wayne Walker), I would say that the news, sports and weather people in those two large markets are very, very, stable.

In fact, the NBC station in L.A. has had the same sports and weather guys since at LEAST 1986 (when I moved here).

MotionMan

A lot of the anchors in the Bay Area stick around. I remember Dennis Richmond was on channel 2 when I was a kid, probably before I was born. A whole lifetime later I end up back in the Bay Area, and he was still on the air! I think he was forced out 5 or so years ago, but a lot of the anchors have been on the air 10+ years.

While its comforting to see familiar faces on TV, its sad to see them get old and making mistake after mistake. That Christina Loren is insane though...she is built like she stepped off the set of an adult flick, but then she starts talking and she obviously knows her stuff. I'm sure when the channel interviewed her they couldn't kick the incumbent in the ass fast enough.

 

[marvdmartian]

Mostly because, unless you're in a major metropolitan area (and even sometimes then), they don't pay squat to anyone but the few big anchors. And just like everyone else, these folks would like to get paid more money.

So they start out somewhere, work a few years, get some experience, then apply for jobs elsewhere, where they'll get more money and more responsibility. This will go on for a while, until they're happy with the pay, or the location, or both.

I live in a small city of ~100,000, and the evening news anchors have been around for a while, but the junior reporters come and go. The ones that really like this area will stick around, making diddly, until they get enough seniority that they're not junior reporters any more.

 

[The Boston Dangler]

if it can't be jackie guerrido, i'll take al:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FOf0n1dc7A8

 

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