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Montage: WLS-TV’s Livestream 1 year anni (plus Jaisol Martinez’s first night!)

“[We got] lot of noobs” – Cheryl Burton making a pun of “A lot of news” to start on their first anniversary of the streaming show.

Captured coincidentally on WLS’s first year anniversary of their 7:00 news on a stream only, the intention was to record Jaisol Martinez’s first night (pronounced Hi-Soul) – who was from WHDH-TV before. This montage is mostly about Jaisol and dedicated for the Chicagoland audience as you got a nice gem from Boston. I wished there were more people like her in a changing news world that is a but superficial when the weather department is involved.

She had so much energy last night, I am so happy she has landed her feet at one of the best run news operations in the country, never mind the Midwest.

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New Developments: Jaisol Martinez has arrived to WLS-TV ON FIRE!

As much as I am bummed still getting over the feeling that Jaisol Martinez left WHDH-TV’s meteorologist late in the year; she has since announced she has joined the news at WLS-TV, the ABC O&O in Chicago. As I am writing this, their 7:00 pm CT streaming newscast is on, and it’s not just it’s first anniversary (I guess the WCIU days are gone, as they did air off hour news that station) but Jaisol’s first night.

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How Weather Departments Need to Be Rethinking Their Roles

I am skeptical of meteorology in local news; and it’s not the usual suspects of they over-hype, or it’s not accurate, or not relevant in my back yard. Lot of it as the excessive data without it being applicable to the average viewers. Or should I say “average” in 2005 standards when the viewers were a bit more intelligent, no offense.

In the last five years, I’ve seen local media go down the tubes in local weather forecasting. The worse offense is the “[X] days to [Y] event” such as “52 days to Daylight Saving” or “29 days to 8:00pm Sunsets”. Or 12 Days to Spring Training in midst of a mild winter. I understand the intention of meteorologists trying to spruce up the viewers especially with depressing and polarizing news. Local news is not the place for meteorologists to make people feel better.

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