Friday, June 05, 2009
Strange shakeup
KHQ, Spokane's NBC affiliate, is pulling a classically stupid TV move, probably following the orders of some expensive "format consultant". They fired the most competent weathercaster in town, Brian Albrecht, and hired the least competent one from another station. The least competent one is a pretty blonde, which presumably gives her the ratings advantage. Trouble is, she can't read the radars and teleprompters correctly let alone predict anything. She literally can't tell north from south.
Meanwhile, Albrecht seems to be thoroughly disgusted with broadcasting in general; instead of moving to another station as usually happens in these cases, he's become an assistant pastor at a Lutheran church!
So we're going to be stuck with the Weather Bureau's halfassed predictions. They do well enough on the slow-moving changes, but they never catch the surprises. ¶ 7:01 AM
Meanwhile, Albrecht seems to be thoroughly disgusted with broadcasting in general; instead of moving to another station as usually happens in these cases, he's become an assistant pastor at a Lutheran church!
So we're going to be stuck with the Weather Bureau's halfassed predictions. They do well enough on the slow-moving changes, but they never catch the surprises. ¶ 7:01 AM
