Change at TWC

[Jim Edds]

Dr. Richard Knabb Joins The Weather Channel As Tropical Weather Expert. He will replace Steve Lyons.
http://press.weather.com/press_detail.asp?id=293

 

[Nathan Withrow]

What they get rid of Dr. Steve Lyons too? TWC is a joke!

 

[Chris Vagasky]

Did you read the press release? Dr. Lyons went to San Angelo as the MIC.

 

[Nathan Withrow]

I hate that he is not with the Weather Channel anymore. I really liked him! Really great person and Hurricane expert.

I did not read the press release right away. I know the TWC has been getting rid of people, and so that was my reaction to this thread. But I did read the press release a little bit after.

 

[Paul Redmond]

Agree that TWC has become a joke. Just try to get weather information there, between all that stupid reality tv trash that they air.

Sorry I am not waiting a full hour for a radar update on Saturday to decide if I am going to cut the grass.

 

[Brian Stertz]

Kind of odd that a man with such incredible tropical experience goes to SJT and away from the coast where his expertise is. Guess he'll have the cush desk job instead of providing energy draining reports of a dying wave over the Lesser Antilles. TWC in my opinion is a drying up puddle...had some great talent through the years and it has since evaporated. Guess they will continue on muddy road and eventually skid off into the ravine for good.

 

[IAN GIAMMANCO]

I honestly think he's after an NHC position and needs an "in" through the NWS.

 

[Jason Foster]

I honestly think he's after an NHC position and needs an "in" through the NWS.

You mean Lyons?

I could see that...but also may be looking at HQ job here in Silver Spring, Maryland. Also may have just taken a good job that presented itself, and wisely didn't deliberate a job opening in this economy.

 

[MatthewCarman]

Kind of odd that a man with such incredible tropical experience goes to SJT and away from the coast where his expertise is. Guess he'll have the cush desk job instead of providing energy draining reports of a dying wave over the Lesser Antilles. TWC in my opinion is a drying up puddle...had some great talent through the years and it has since evaporated. Guess they will continue on muddy road and eventually skid off into the ravine for good.

Don't forget TWC still has Jim Cantore and Dr. Greg Forbes. Untill those two leave TWC still has some great talent.

 

[Dennis Dennison]

Cantore needs to rethink his storm stories thing--they are all the same-Jim talking tense, then the stock videos and then the stuff flying around and the shaking camera superimposed--B O R I N G


Hey--but on the bright side they were running groundhog day-which is a real stretch as weather related movies

 

[Tim Shriver]

I stopped watching TWC years ago. Boring boring boring.

"I honestly think he's after an NHC position and needs an "in" through the NWS."

God save us all!

Tim

 

[Chris Nuttall]

I honestly think he's after an NHC position and needs an "in" through the NWS.

Didn't he work at NHC in the past? I think he also held a position at Southern Region HQ some years ago.

 

[Jeff Passner]

The whole thing with TWC is very sad, like MYV which rarely shows music these days. TWC covers NEWS now; it's like CNN or FOX and other news stations. They've been talking about a volcano for days, which has NOTHING to do with actual weather. Wow, flights have stopped in Europe.... Okay, I can get that information on CNN or Fox.... Who is actually covering it less than TWC. What happened? It comes down to ratings, but I agree that TWC is in trouble.... How it will survive, I'm not sure. Movies, storm stories, complete junk. Maybe the truth is: the public does not care about weather unless something major is going on. We care, but the general public does not. Simple truth. TWC overrated themselves. These days, with the internet, it has become useless. And really, I never thought Steve Lyons was that impressive. Big deal, 90 percent of the time, nothing is going on in the tropics. It's a boring, irrelevant job.

 

[Mike Hollingshead]

This reminds me of a week or so ago flipping channels and for some dumb reason I wanted to see local on the eights. Quick look at temps maybe. I thought I was on 5(twc) but Joe vs the Volcano was on. I honestly thought the cable company was either messing up or switching channels around again. I flipped around some and back and was like, this should be the right channel. Then I see the TWC logo pop up and go back away. Perhaps they could forsee the coming volcano deal! Interestingly enough tv guide had the same show on(yeah must be somehow connected like they are with msnbc stuff now).

Sucks the local on the 8s I don't think even comes from the NWS anymore. Seems it used to.

 

[Joel Wright]

Even though you have all the info you can possibly ever want on the internet these days, I think I'd still actually watch TWC if it were like the "old" days. Like I've said in previous TWC threads, it'd be nice if a new channel was launched by a new company. With TWC continuing to go downhill, I think it's gonna happen eventually. Think of all the worthless channels on TV today, yet there's really only one cable channel that is dedicated to weather. Even with the info widely available on the internet, people are lazy and would rather zone out in front of the TV and have it delivered to them. There's certainly a market for a truly dedicated 24 hour weather network.