Lightning Rod--CANCELLED

[gt1racerlHDl]

It's sad they canned it that quickly

[wxmediafan]

I am not all too surprised.  I am a little surprised, because from what I understood, the segment was pretty popular.  I did not liek the segment at all.  I felt it was awkward between the two hosts, and had nothing to do with weather. Of course, that was the one time I actually saw the segment, so I can't judge too much.

I hope Mark has something else to do with TWC, he seems pretty good. 

Sidenote:  what is "DM" (I am obviously not a twitter-er, tweeter, whatever. )

[Anistorm]

Sidenote:  what is "DM" (I am obviously not a twitter-er, tweeter, whatever. )

Direct Message.

Speaking of that, I was able to keep in touch with Mark earlier today. He's gonna continue his work at Weather Center because of the crazy storms up north, but meanwhile, he is still looking for something else to do. No word that he's going back to radio, though.

[TWCToday]

So lets get this straight.... TWC spent thousands on revamping part of the studio, getting fancy gizmos, running promos, designing snazzy graphics packages for a show that never aired. Nice

[Anistorm]

So lets get this straight.... TWC spent thousands on revamping part of the studio, getting fancy gizmos, running promos, designing snazzy graphics packages for a show that never aired. Nice

Yeah, that's the basics. They spent useless money on that, which is sad, though.

[toxictwister00]

So lets get this straight.... TWC spent thousands on revamping part of the studio, getting fancy gizmos, running promos, designing snazzy graphics packages for a show that never aired. Nice

Yeah, that's the basics. They spent useless money on that, which is sad, though.

Old habits die hard I guess, it's no wonder they have to keep letting good senior OCMs go to hire cheaper new ones.  

[Donovan]

So lets get this straight.... TWC spent thousands on revamping part of the studio, getting fancy gizmos, running promos, designing snazzy graphics packages for a show that never aired. Nice

Yeah, that's the basics. They spent useless money on that, which is sad, though.

Old habits die hard I guess, it's no wonder they have to keep letting good senior OCMs go to hire cheaper new ones.  

They'll find use for the studio sometime in the future. Did they also cancel Stephanie Abrams ms. wizard?

[Mike M]

Is there a reason why TWC didn't "approve" it? Was it ratings?

[jtmal0723]

Is there a reason why TWC didn't "approve" it? Was it ratings?

ratings, plus audience dislike. Apparently all that focus group testing didn't do any good.

So lets get this straight.... TWC spent thousands on revamping part of the studio, getting fancy gizmos, running promos, designing snazzy graphics packages for a show that never aired. Nice

Yeah, that's the basics. They spent useless money on that, which is sad, though.

Old habits die hard I guess, it's no wonder they have to keep letting good senior OCMs go to hire cheaper new ones.  

They'll find use for the studio sometime in the future. Did they also cancel Stephanie Abrams ms. wizard?

doubtful afiak. Steph is a high rated OCM at TWC.

[TWCmatthew]

Mark Elliot was in the newsroom earlier on WC.

I wish Landmark Communications was still TWC's mother company. But of course, we can only dream that. I hope pre-2005 TWC is having a good time in heaven.

[WeatherWitness]

Was Lightning Rod supposed to be just a longer version of the "talk show" segments on WC? Because that's not what the video from TWC MediaKit (made several months ago) said about LR. Anyways, maybe TWC was smart in showing the segments before the full show to get viewer feedback before launching something the public wouldn't like. I thought someone said ratings for this thing were high though...what happened???

[jtmal0723]

I have dibs on the surface.

[Anistorm]

Mark Elliot was in the newsroom earlier on WC.

He's gonna be there for a while from now on, until he is given something else to do.