The Associated Press and other "news" outlets report that The Weather (Commercial) Channel in Atlanta is about to be bought by another media conglomerate.
NBC-Universal has agreed to pay a reported "$3.5-billion" for the cable channel that USED to provide timely national weather information.
The Weather (Commercial) Channel has been under criticism for years now as commercials and non-weather features have seriously undermined the channel's content.
There have also been credibility issues on their reporting- brought to light in early June 1996.
The evening before- a large supercell thunderstorm developed and sat over Leavenworth County for quite awhile- dropping several small tornadoes that produced only scattered light damage.
I videotaped the storm for Channel 4 News from the Lewis & Clark Point on the NW Downtown Loop as the storm sank slowly south into Johnson County after sunset.
JoCo- including Shawnee-KS- got little more than small hail- heavy rain and below severe-criteria wind gusts.
The next morning when they went live again at 4am Central Time- The Weather (Commercial) Channel reported that a "last night a tornado struck Shawnee-KS- causing considerable damage."
Nearly 2 hours later- without explanation- correction or apology- The W(C)C quit reporting the "tornado in Shawnee" during their hour/half-hour weather-news teasers.
(I can only assume they finally received & read the email I sent them that morning- they never did acknowledge or thank me.)
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