23-10-2021, 12:20 PM
matthieu1221 post_id=50033 time= user_id=1634 Wrote:Forgive me if this is a stupid question, but how do you fill a 24/7 weather news channel with content?
There's usually (it seems like) a lot of national weather stories to cover on any given day. It's not like a general news channel where some days there seems like nothing worthwhile is happening.
Divided broadcast wheel into national, maybe regional, and occasionally some specialized segments like boat & beach, snow, etc. and that's more than enough stuff to fill the time.
A typical hour on a North American weather channel only has 20-30 minutes of forecaster presentation anyway.
And speaking of Fox Weather's presentation, they better get some sort of ticker/L-bar featuring forecast information somewhere on the screen, a must-have for this type of channel. Acc. to the one sole photo released so far, it's nonexistent.
The channel's launch begins Monday at 6:00am ET/11:00am GMT.