The drippy smooth jazz that for years has played in the background of the Atlanta-based Weather Channel’s “Local On the 8s” segments has been replaced with soft rock songs people can actually hum instead of going numb.
Have they ever actually listened to the music? You can hum most of it. And they think people won't go "numb" listening to soft rock?
Maybe I'm missing something here, but I think most find soft rock more sleepy than jazz.
“I think we’ve been doing an injustice to our viewers playing, for the lack of a better word, elevator music on the segments for all these years,” Geoffrey Darby, the cable network’s new executive vice president of programming, said Thursday.
Translation - he hates jazz and wants to play the music he likes. I don't blame you Jeffy, but don't kid youself by saying that you're doing this for "ratings."
...which wasn’t great for the audience or the network’s advertisers who prefer viewers who are awake.
Unless they interviewed people that were drunk, I doubt any viewers actually fell asleep when the local forecast came on.
eighty percent approval rating
By who? His friends?
I can’t believe I just heard Devo on the Weather Channel — that is so cool.
Devo was played in the summer of 1990 too...and they quickly dropped it.
