At this rate, The Weather Channel's OCMs will be fresh out of college, the ink on their diplomas barely dry. The network seems to be saying that the people with experience can work behind the scenes, so long as they don't have enough seniority to actually make a decent amount in payroll, and the on-camera folk must be young, perky, and attractive, and who cares about anything else.
I just had a thought - in this day and age, probably even the great John Hope would have faced the chopping block by now and have been fired, or had his contract "not renewed." That's how bad I think things have gotten.