Bob Walker Upped At Weather Channel

COMMENTS (5)

• Whew! I was worried The Weather Channel might be w/o a leader. This is great news for weather enthusiasts and shut-ins everywhere.

  Comment by The Right Coast — Monday July 11, 2011 @ 5:58pm PDT  Reply to this post

• The Weather Channel is due for some re-imagining. I would start to add movies, like “Twister”, “Hurricane”, and “Singin’ in the Rain”.

  Comment by Miffy — Monday July 11, 2011 @ 6:23pm PDT  Reply to this post

• TWC tried movies for two years. Didn’t work. When weather breaks around the country it became difficult to figure out how to pre-empt the movies in progress. They should have grabbed spectrum years ago to launch a “Weather 2″ Channel for entertainment… now it’s all about “mult-iplatform.”

  Comment by Sarah b — Monday July 11, 2011 @ 7:56pm PDT  Reply to this post

• Bob,

  Can’t say I’m a huge fan of your work. Your programming for June was really mediocre here in Los Angeles. Too heavily overcast, not many true beach days, generally seemed to be lacking in overall temperature. I know there are some corporate challenges you face, but some of it comes down to the kinds of pitches you’ve been hearing and I have a great one: high of 82 degrees (on the beach), 5 mph sea breeze, low of 67 degrees, high visibility, mid-low UV index. I’m pitching it as a serialized series, but could convert to close-ended if that gets it made.

  Cheers,
  Stan

  Comment by Stan Jam — Tuesday July 12, 2011 @ 9:21am PDT  Reply to this post

• I suspect the Weather Channel will expand their “original” programing so that, apart from the morning hours and breaking severe weather coverage, it will fill the network’s entire programming day, as well as 24-hour marathons of such shows on holidays like Thanksgiving and Christmas, which (barring severe weather outbreaks) will allow the entire staff of weatherpeople and studio technicians to get the day off.

  Comment by Joseph — Tuesday July 12, 2011 @ 10:14am PDT  Reply to this post