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The lead story of last night's PBS NewsHour covered recent extreme weather events in the context of global climate change. The 8-minute...

Since celebritology is MUCH more important than the fact that the entire continental U.S. has just smashed the record for warmest spring in ...

The dcrtv blog reports another new face in the weather department at CBS affiliate WUSA-TV, Channel 9, in Washington: DCRTV hears that Cha...

BBC weathercaster Tomasz Schafernaker was caught live on-camera earlier this week giving his middle-finger reaction (known in German as the...

The Washington weathercaster revolving door, which has been particularly active this year, took yet another spin this past weekend. Tom Sat...

For a 2012 update, see Kim Martucci Pregnant (And Back to Our Regular Programming PM Update: Doug Hill delivers meteorologist Bob Ryan to C...

The dcrtv blog reports today that the rumors surrounding future plans of former WRC, Channel 4, meteorologist Bob Ryan are converging on a ...

The dcrtv blog adds more speculation to the question of former WRC, Channel 4, meteorologist Bob Ryan's future role: "All along, he...

The rumors regarding a possible move of former WRC (Channel 4) meteorologist Bob Ryan to WJLA (Channel 7) continue. According to a post tod...

Ken Kaye reports in the Florida Sun-Sentinel's hurricane blog that long-time Weather Channel tropical expert Steve Lyons is leaving tha...

Here, without comment, is a self-described rant from the dcrtv blog : What's your definition of "cruel reality"? Maybe getting...

As noted earlier, the Washington weathercaster revolving door has recently brought Justin Drabick to WRC, Channel 4, as a weekend substitut...

The churn in the local broadcasting market fed by falling revenues has brought another new face to Washington weathercasting. Following the...

See Mediarology for the latest developments. Feb. 27 Update: Video of Bob Ryan's goodbye broadcast from YouTube: Midnight Friday Updat...

The Weather Channel announced yesterday that it will start a Friday night movie series, adding full-length motion pictures to its programmi...

Oct. 19 Update: The Yale Forum on Climate Change & The Media had a post in July on broadcast meteorologists behaving more responsibly....

One of the unintended consequences of commercialized blogging is that it creates whole new areas of conflict of interest for the traditional...

Frank Batten, Sr., who founded The Weather Channel in 1982, died this morning in Norfolk at age 82. The cable TV network, which overcame ma...

The current economic climate has had a strong negative effect on advertising. This is sending a chill wind through the broadcast industry, ...

Back in January, before the WaPo's hostility to climate coverage necessitated a split, CapitalClimate pointed out an American Meteorol...