local tv meteorologists were such a quaint notion

[danny burstein]

Allen Media, as in Bryon Allen...

https://thedesk.net/2025/01/allen-media-laying-off-tv-forecasters/

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[Richard de Give]

What will this mean to the NTI?

[danny burstein]

On Sun, 19 Jan 2025, Richard de Give wrote:

> What will this mean to the NTI?

It'll go the way of Tex "Confucious Says" Antoine [a],
Frank Field, and alas, David Bohrman and the Anchor God

[a] well known to NYC'ers of a delivate generation,
until a very drunken and dumbass comment

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tex_Antoine

[Doug Elrod]

Somehow, I suspect this is just a transition stage to an A.I. weathercast service.  Which
reminds me of the short story with a (postapocalyptic) automated house (spoiler: THE DOG
DIES).  Does anyone remember the name?

-Doug Elrod (dr...@cornell.edu)
   "471 is the new high temperature for this date.  Curiously, this was also the
'National Temperature Index' for this date in 1999".  :-(

[Jim Ellwanger]

“There Will Come Soft Rains” by Ray Bradbury.

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[danny burstein]

On Tue, 21 Jan 2025, 'Doug Elrod' via World News Now Discussion List wrote:

> Somehow, I suspect this is just a transition stage to an A.I.
> weathercast service.  Which reminds me of the short story with a
> (postapocalyptic) automated house (spoiler: THE DOG DIES).  Does anyone
> remember the name?

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Trust me on this audio clip...

ok, it's the telco/weather bureau recording
of the weather report way back in ... 1961 [a]

www.dburstein.com/audio/1961-weather.wav

about 12 megs

[a] my father, who was a scribe/copy editor/everythinger
at a Modest Metropolitan Newspaper had one of the
early, semi portable, reel-to-reel tape recorders
using something like 12 AA batteries.

He had a suction cup inductance coil which he
placed on phone handsets to record the calls...