I recently sent TWC an email about my strong opposition to the narration. Maybe they'll listen to their viewers, for once.
The idea behind "
Vocal Locals" was to make getting weather information easier, a real example they give is if your morning schedule includes getting your children ready or preparing things for your day ahead, you can have TWC on in the living room, and you don't have to be in the room to read the local forecast, instead it is read to you out loud. This is way more important that you TWC music geeks (no offence!) who just want to hear the music, or in most cases record the unavailable music without narration.