The CBS affiliate in our area, KCTV5, in Fairway, Kansas, has the most bizzarre rules for covering storms of any station I've ever heard of in my entire life.
And I'm old. I'm fricking old!
Their Meteorologist, Katie Horner, (John calls her "Mother Horner" because of her extremely condescending comments to viewers - for example, this afternoon, she thanks people for taking cover after a tornado warning in Atchison, Kansas), seems to have taken over all of the CBS Prime Time shows if there is a cloud anywhere from Topeka, Kansas to Columbia, Missouri, Des Moines, Iowa, to Springfield, Missouri.
Yes, I know, this is tornado season, and we live in "tornado alley", but all the other television stations can run a crawl about any weather alerts at the bottom of the screen. But not KCTV5 - they have to have live coverage of any and all weather for freaking hours on end.
Honestly, Katie is on the TV with videos of a roof that came off of a building a couple of hours ago in a small town, and she is talking about how hot and humid it must be in that town. Damn, the storm has already hit - at this point, the meteorologist needs to go home to her family, or what's left of them, And not only that, but Katie wears the same damn hot pink jacket every time she is on - KCTV5 - buy that woman some clothes!!!
Anyway, because of Katie's second by second commentary on the aftermath of any storm within about 150 miles of us, I miss the very few prime-time shows that I like to watch.
Gah. KCTV5 - would you PLEASE get with the program and get Katie off the air unless it is between shows or an actual local emergency!!!!!
UPDATE: Thanks to KCSTEVE, I know now that there is an actual website dedicated to getting Katie Horner fired.
I can see I'm not alone in my frustration with Katie Horner. Ha!
Katy is the reason there’s a “fire Katy’ website.
Other stations are running promos that literally deal with this and say “We cover it like we’ve seen a storm before.” I know you know this Beth, but others might think you’re exaggerating.
We had to watch heavily hyped season finalies off the web because of storms over an hour away.
Now that everyone is required to be able to receive a secondary, ‘weather only’ digital channel (which Ch5 does NOT have, unlike the othr stations) you’d think they could leave the ‘main’ channel alone with just a crawl.
Not Katy.
Oh, you’re lucky to have just one channel doing the “continuing severe weather coverage”. We have four local stations that go ape s* when the weather gets bumpy. I just turn it to the cable channels and flip back over if the wind really picks up or quits blowing altogether. I swear one of these days the meteorologists are going to do actual cartwheels when we get another big tornado.