Weather Channel

Mondo Times editors    Boulder Colorado USA

Posted at 8:03pm on Monday, June 8th, 2009

The Weather Channel broadcasted live footage of a super cell tornado in Goshen County, Wyoming on June 5, 2009.

The Weather Channel broadcasted and streamed online live footage of a super cell tornado in Goshen County, WY. The footage was broadcast live and commercial free for over an hour by the TWC team embedded with Vortex2.

TWC broadcasted live transmissions from moving vehicles as they tracked the storm.

VORTEX2 (Verification of the Origin of Rotation in Tornadoes Experiment 2) is the largest field experiment in history to explore tornadoes. The VORTEX2 project is designed to study tornadoes as they've never been seen before to better understand how, when and why tornadoes form and to help improve alert skill.

Eric Kallgren    Boulder, Colorado USA

Posted at 4:51pm on Tuesday, May 12th, 2009

Keith Olbermann's girlfriend Katy Tur has joined The Weather Channel, TVNewser reported on May 11, 2009:

"Katy Tur, girlfriend of MSNBC's Keith Olbermann, "is now chasing tornadoes as part of The Weather Channel's Vortex2 team."

Weather Channel meteorologist Mike Bettes introduced Tur on Friday as one of the Vortex2 digital journalists in a short Q&A. What is she most looking forward to? "Tornadoes...duh, Bettes," she said.

But since NBCU owns both MSNBC and The Weather Channel, questions may arise about whether the relationship helped get the job. Olbermann tells TVNewser: "Anybody who suggests so is misinformed, and/or sadly unaware that in this time when the industry is collapsing around us, nobody gets a job based on 'influence,' only talent."

Eric Kallgren    Boulder, Colorado USA

Posted at 7:01pm on Thursday, April 30th, 2009

Al Roker will host "Wake Up With Al" weekday mornings on The Weather Channel, the cable TV service announced on April 29, 2009:

"Al Roker, widely recognized as America's favorite weatherman, has been named host of Wake Up With Al, a new weekday morning program on The Weather Channel (TWC). Roker will join TWC's Stephanie Abrams, who will serve as his co-host. The announcement was made today by Lisa Gersh, interim CEO of The Weather Channel. The one-hour program will air weekdays from 6-7 a.m. ET and premiere this summer.

"Simply put - Al Roker is synonymous with weather. He has an energy and a style that jumps off the screen, and we already know that people want to wake up with him in the morning," said Gersh. "We have spent months coming up with the right way to integrate Al into The Weather Channel programming, and I think, alongside Stephanie, we've come up with the perfect formula with this announcement."

Wake Up With Al will air live from both New York City and Atlanta.

Roker has been the weather and feature reporter on NBC News' Today since January 1996. Until January of 2000, he also served as the weekday weather forecaster for News Channel 4's early evening newscast Live at 5 on WNBC-TV, NBC's flagship owned and operated station in New York City. Prior to joining WNBC, Roker worked as a weatherman for more than seven years."

Ailesha    Denver

Posted at 5:26pm on Tuesday, October 28th, 2008

In September 2008, The Weather Channel was sold by Landmark Communications, Inc. to NBC Universal for 3.5 Billion dollars.