Allen Media reportedly won’t fire local meteorologists after viewer backlash: ‘Greedy, damn cheap’
Allen Media Group is reportedly halting its plan to replace about 100 local weather reporters with a Weather Channel feed.
Facing Backlash Over Firing Its Meteorologists, Allen Media Group Learns an Important Lesson: Take the ‘Local' Out of Local TV At Your Own Peril
Handing out pink slips to dozens of beloved small-market local TV news weathercasters would be ill-advised even in the best ...
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Allen Media Group Replaces Dozens Of Meteorologists With Pre-Recorded Feeds From The Weather Channel In Latest Round Of Layoffs
Byron Allen’s Allen Media Group is terminating or reassigning all local meteorologists at its nearly two dozen stations ...
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Allen Media Group Reverses Decision to Lay Off Local Meteorologists Amid Backlash
Allen Media Group is reversing its decision to replace local meteorologists with a Weather Channel feed due to strong ...
Was Your Local Meteorologist Laid Off? Weather Channel Deal Leads to Cuts
The Allen Media Group's new deal with The Weather Channel is jeopardizing the jobs of dozens of local meteorologists ...
Iowa meteorologists safe for now as Allen Media reviews plan to use The Weather Channel
Iowa weather teams at Allen Media stations are safe for now as the company reconsiders its decision to outsource forecasts to ...
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REPORT: Allen Media reverses course on plan to fire KIMT meteorologists, replace with Weather Channel coverage
Amid an outcry from viewers and advertisers, Allen Media officials confirmed that the move to release all local ...
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KIMT owner's plan to lay off local weather team seems to have melted away
ROCHESTER — Just as the temperatures have warmed up, the leaked plan of KIMT-TV ’s owner to lay off meteorologists and ...
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Allen Media Group Scraps Plan to Replace Local TV Meteorologists
Less than a week after announcing that it would replace local weathercasters at its local TV stations, Allen Media Group ...
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Some Allen Media Group Stations Ditch TWC-Powered Weather Plan
As the week began, the Byron Allen-controlled AMG heralded a "groundbreaking" initiative and "innovative partnership" that ...
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Facing Backlash Over Firing Its Meteorologists, Allen Media Group Learns an Important Lesson: Take the ‘Local’ Out of Local TV At Your Own Peril
And yet, that’s what Allen Media Group did last week, announcing that it would be getting rid of trusted local weather anchors in a cost-saving move. The idea was to just feed forecasts from its ...
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Facing Backlash Over Firing Its Meteorologists, Allen Media Group Learns an Important Lesson: Take the ‘Local’ Out of Local TV At Your Own Peril
And yet, that’s what Allen Media Group did last week, announcing that it would be getting rid of trusted local weather anchors in a cost-saving move. The idea was to just feed forecasts from its ...