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Brad Edwards retiring from WOI
Brad Edwards is leaving WOI. What's next for We Are Iowa Weather's chief meteorologist?
Chief meteorologist Brad Edwards is leaving WOI Local 5 at the end of January, ending a 28-year run with the station.
www.desmoinesregister.com
Brad Edwards retiring from WOI
Brad Edwards is leaving WOI. What's next for We Are Iowa Weather's chief meteorologist?
Chief meteorologist Brad Edwards is leaving WOI Local 5 at the end of January, ending a 28-year run with the station.www.desmoinesregister.com
Crazy that he was there that long.
Not sure where else to really put this. I can't find a news story on it yet but I heard that Allen Broadcasting Group which owns KWWL and KIMT in Iowa will soon no longer have meteorologists at the local stations. Sounds like they announced it to the stations/personnel yesterday.
Allen Media preparing to ‘hub’ weather, cut local forecaster jobs
Update: Allen Media Group has reversed its decision and will keep local meteorologists. Allen Media ... Read More
www.newscaststudio.com
If KCCI or WHO did this, they would immediately lose a huge number of viewers to their competitor. This reminds me of the sports radio stations dropping all of the local talent.
Sadly this is becoming a trend with media (just look at KXNO). Local media slowly dying.
Give it time and it will happen in the DSM market. The media conglomerates don’t care about local weather/news- just whatever is going to give them the most money in their pockets. If iHeart didn’t care about ruining what was a good local radio station in KXNO, Nexstar and Hearst aren’t going to care about WHO and KCCI
Have to think this is why CW added Amber to the IE staff. There will be a local market for it sooner rather than later.
This article mentioned WOI is planning to do the weather sharing on weekends.Brad Edwards retiring from WOI
Brad Edwards is leaving WOI. What's next for We Are Iowa Weather's chief meteorologist?
Chief meteorologist Brad Edwards is leaving WOI Local 5 at the end of January, ending a 28-year run with the station.www.desmoinesregister.com
Does anyone really watch that? Like everything else, you don’t need to turn your tv on to find out the weather anymore. I guess that does offer viewing it on your social media though.
I don't, but that's only because I live out of state. If there's still a demand for a local weather broadcast without TV, there's a place for it. It wouldn't overshadow any of IE's premier shows.
On the last 2GNC they mentioned more people view their show on YouTube vs. on a podcast app. If people already subscribe to the IE YT channel they could view Amber's forecast videos without much extra effort.
What I am curious about is how KWWL and these other networks are going to handle severe weather. Unless they’re contracting with another station to handle the coverage, I don’t know how meteorologists in Atlanta are going to cover a tornado in eastern Iowa
It'll sort of get covered but just not well they can read maps and towns but will have no real knowledge of the area.
would tune into them and KCRG on the reg up in NE Iowa for weather. Sad to see this happen.
It definitely can be done. Even now people watch meteorologists covering storms on YouTube. I watched Max Velocity who lives in Florida.
Not saying it can’t, and I suppose The Weather Channel has enough meteorologists sitting around to cover a storm that pops up, but I can also see these stations just using generic areas for tracks of storms rather than being hyperlocal like local media can be
