Peck must be half asleep on Sunday mornings after doing the Saturday evening news. KPIX needs to adequately staff their weather department so he doesn’t have to do double shifts every weekend
Just get another weekend meteorologist if Hackney does not want to do the weather. Better yet, why not put Mary Lee? She is still technically working with KPIX.
At the end Peck does not care because he is just that passionate on doing the weather.
But during the holidays expect him to be a fill in every day of the week, if Burch works all the weekday mornings, Peck will fill in if Heggen is out the entire holiday week.
Weekend mornings are fun with Peck since there is interaction with Devin and lot of live views with the weather. When Peck had to do weekday mornings earlier this year, weekends were a drab. My guess would have been Heggen would have stayed past his 11PM show and recorded 2 segments (a preview of a quick check) & the weather for the day even though he was likely recording at midnight. Hackney would do the same on Saturday nights for Sunday weather (and sometimes Friday nights for Saturday weather) and those 2 play repeatedly during those few morning casts. Made it more repetitive and less fun. No interaction and no Devin curveballs which means he would invisibly thank the meteorologist.
It was a lot different when Emily Turner would sub for Peck on some weekday mornings.
I know Peck is the weekend meteorologist but because Burch cannot do weekends as she is working for the National Guard, I guess they should do something like this:
Peck for Sat & Sun evenings and maybe 3 additional days of the week (Mon, Wed, Fri evening) and Heggen can do something like Tues & Thurs evenings, and weekend mornings so that none of them needs to be exhausted from their evening show and come next day morning. Mary Lee can be a fill in as required. I guess thats complex because the Chief Meteorologists only work weekdays.
I used to live in Minneapolis and also watched their CBS O&O station WCCO for a year Mar 2019-Mar 2020 and they adequately have enough weather anchors and at least 4 meteorologists:
Chief Meteorologist Chris Shaffer who works weeknights like Paul Heggen does. Both of them are from Minneapolis, but Shaffer really has more personality (just like Peck) but not overly enthusiastic or crazy like Peck. He is also not so sad or so stiff like Heggen but he presents the weather clearly and gets to the point. If only KPIX would bring Shaffer.
They also have Riley O’Connor who does weekday mornings, he’s just average at best, he’s kind of like Heggen. Burch wins here. Then they also have Mike Agustinyak who does weekend mornings, who is as good as Shaffer and finally weekend evenings Lisa Meadows (who is sometimes a fill in on weekday evenings) who’s not just a blonde but used to work at KOVR in Sacramento and has a great personality doing the weather.
KPIX really needs 1 more weather anchor my guess is that may happen next year based on the posting they put out months ago, we’ll see.
Oh, Pat McCormick's weather prowess would have never committed such an error ... or rather, weren't these things just written in chalk on an erasable board? Dialing For Raintotals?
Now a days you get a therapy session, and the station apologizes to you and go out on stress. Come back and get retrained for a job that is less stressful.
The stations got rid of the teleprompter writer/editors long ago. If you are a script writer the job is tacked on to your news writing and is the last thing you do before saving the file. The truth is you can be writing a lot of stories, calling, scanning the wires and looking for any updates to the story up to the last moment, so this stuff gets through. In this case either the producer wrote this or the weather anchor did and again, as the last thing before going on air. Blame the decision to pile on work and get rid of the specialists that used to keep things sharp. Remember copy editors for newspapers?
Top San Jose Bottom sAN jOSE. Nothing but the best.
ReplyDelete9:08 am in ABC 7 that Patti Labelle is patti lupone. Funny they dont look the same??
ReplyDeletePeck must be half asleep on Sunday mornings after doing the Saturday evening news. KPIX needs to adequately staff their weather department so he doesn’t have to do double shifts every weekend
ReplyDeleteJust get another weekend meteorologist if Hackney does not want to do the weather. Better yet, why not put Mary Lee? She is still technically working with KPIX.
DeleteAt the end Peck does not care because he is just that passionate on doing the weather.
But during the holidays expect him to be a fill in every day of the week, if Burch works all the weekday mornings, Peck will fill in if Heggen is out the entire holiday week.
Weekend mornings are fun with Peck since there is interaction with Devin and lot of live views with the weather. When Peck had to do weekday mornings earlier this year, weekends were a drab. My guess would have been Heggen would have stayed past his 11PM show and recorded 2 segments (a preview of a quick check) & the weather for the day even though he was likely recording at midnight. Hackney would do the same on Saturday nights for Sunday weather (and sometimes Friday nights for Saturday weather) and those 2 play repeatedly during those few morning casts. Made it more repetitive and less fun. No interaction and no Devin curveballs which means he would invisibly thank the meteorologist.
DeleteIt was a lot different when Emily Turner would sub for Peck on some weekday mornings.
I know Peck is the weekend meteorologist but because Burch cannot do weekends as she is working for the National Guard, I guess they should do something like this:
Peck for Sat & Sun evenings and maybe 3 additional days of the week (Mon, Wed, Fri evening) and Heggen can do something like Tues & Thurs evenings, and weekend mornings so that none of them needs to be exhausted from their evening show and come next day morning. Mary Lee can be a fill in as required. I guess thats complex because the Chief Meteorologists only work weekdays.
I used to live in Minneapolis and also watched their CBS O&O station WCCO for a year Mar 2019-Mar 2020 and they adequately have enough weather anchors and at least 4 meteorologists:
Chief Meteorologist Chris Shaffer who works weeknights like Paul Heggen does. Both of them are from Minneapolis, but Shaffer really has more personality (just like Peck) but not overly enthusiastic or crazy like Peck. He is also not so sad or so stiff like Heggen but he presents the weather clearly and gets to the point. If only KPIX would bring Shaffer.
They also have Riley O’Connor who does weekday mornings, he’s just average at best, he’s kind of like Heggen. Burch wins here. Then they also have Mike Agustinyak who does weekend mornings, who is as good as Shaffer and finally weekend evenings Lisa Meadows (who is sometimes a fill in on weekday evenings) who’s not just a blonde but used to work at KOVR in Sacramento and has a great personality doing the weather.
KPIX really needs 1 more weather anchor my guess is that may happen next year based on the posting they put out months ago, we’ll see.
Same thing on Saturday evening. But they may not actually be the same place, given the different rain totals.
ReplyDeletea chyron error is nothing
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Bang Ding Ow…yeah, a Chyron error can be a big thing.
More to the story sum ting wrong. Oh well.
DeleteIt can be...but it is not here....unintentional here...very intentional in your example
DeleteOn the top he actually meant to put Santa Rosa.
ReplyDeleteHe said Santa Rosa for the 1st item. Looks like an assistant input error. Not the end of the world.
DeleteYep as he always does, after maybe later realizing what happened.
DeleteThe top SJ is .91". the bottom .61", which is it?
ReplyDeleteIf something like this happened in the 70s or 80s on any of the stations, heads would've rolled.
ReplyDeleteOh, Pat McCormick's weather prowess would have never committed such an error ... or rather, weren't these things just written in chalk on an erasable board? Dialing For Raintotals?
DeleteNow a days you get a therapy session, and the station apologizes to you and go out on stress. Come back and get retrained for a job that is less stressful.
DeleteThe stations got rid of the teleprompter writer/editors long ago. If you are a script writer the job is tacked on to your news writing and is the last thing you do before saving the file. The truth is you can be writing a lot of stories, calling, scanning the wires and looking for any updates to the story up to the last moment, so this stuff gets through. In this case either the producer wrote this or the weather anchor did and again, as the last thing before going on air. Blame the decision to pile on work and get rid of the specialists that used to keep things sharp. Remember copy editors for newspapers?
ReplyDeleteSadly, completely true. A "fully staffed" newsroom today resembles the weekend skeleton crews of 2nd tier markets of the past.
DeleteAMEN. The bottom line, attention to detail, a lost art/skill.
ReplyDeleteThey need a new….eDiTor
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