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Hurricane Sandy Coverage Plans

Alex Weprin — Fri, 26 Oct 2012 16:14:29 +0000

TV news organizations are gearing up for covering Sandy. There is still lots of uncertainty but here is what we know so far. We will update this story as we get more information.

Cable:

The Weather Channel not surprisingly, has a slew of coverage planned. “Wake Up With Al” will air this weekend starting at 5:30 AM, and 5 AM starting next week.

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Cable Channels Plan To Go Live Overnight As Hurricane Isaac Approaches

Alex Weprin — Tue, 28 Aug 2012 19:09:17 +0000

Hurricane Isaac is expected to make landfall overnight tonight on the Gulf Coast, and you can bet that cable news channels are planning special live programming to cover it. Weather Channel, CNN and Fox News Channel will be live overnight in the hours normally reserved for repeats.

Weather will have live coverage throughout the night, with Reynolds Wolf and Jim Cantore in New Orleans, Mike Seidel in Alabama and Paul Goodloe and Eric Fisher in Mississippi. Locations are subject to change, if Isaac’s path changes.

Fox News will be live from 1-4 AM, with Gregg Jarrett and Jamie Colby anchoring. The network is sending “Fox & Friends First” anchor Anna Kooiman to Baton Rouge, joining Elizabeth Prann, Jonathan Serrie and Casey Stegall in New Orleans. Steve Harrigan is in Biloxi, MS, Rick Leventhal is in Dauphin Island, AL, and Phil Keating is in Mobile, AL.

CNN will have a live edition of “Piers Morgan Tonight at midnight (it was already planned for the RNC), and will add live coverage from 1-4 AM. “Early Start,” which normally begins at 5 AM, will start even earlier at 4 AM tomorrow.

Update: MSNBC will be live til 1 AM with live coverage of the RNC and Isaac. An overnight decision will be made soon.

Update AM: MSNBC ended up replaying its primetime programming through 3 AM, and rerunning the RNC speeches beginning at 3. It broke into programming twice an hour with Hurricane Isaac updates.

We’ll update with more information as we get it.

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One Hazard of Live Hurricane Coverage: College Kids Mooning Your Reporter

Alex Weprin — Sat, 27 Aug 2011 13:59:05 +0000

Your TVNewser editor turned on the Weather Channel around 1:15 this afternoon, and after a few minutes of serious coverage of Hurricane Irene, a liveshot with reporter Eric Fisher from Virgina Beach, Virginia went hilariously awry.

“To be honest I am pretty much speechless, people like those you saw behind me–which I apologize for, I don’t want to show it,” Fisher said. “It is just setting a bad example, honestly this is just depressing to watch at the moment.”

What happened? You can see the aftermath to the right, and the full (edited to be SFW) shot after the jump.

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