NBC Axes The Weather Channel's Environmental Unit

NBC Universal made the first of potentially several rounds of staffing cuts at The Weather Channel (TWC) on Wednesday, axing the entire staff of the "Forecast Earth" environmental program during the middle of NBC's "Green Week," as well as several on-camera meteorologists. The layoffs totaled about 10 percent of the workforce, and are among the first major changes made since NBC completed its purchase of the venerable weather network in September.

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Comments

[bbrecht]

Kill your television before it kills you

[RallyGrrrl]

Good, we don't need any more meterologists and "scientists" confusing the conversation about weather and the environment.

K.I.S.S. - Keep It Simple Science

[ReelBusy]

To paraphrase NBC/Universal's marketing tagline:

GREEN WAS UNIVERSAL....for about a week.

[lvogt]

What on earth would the environment have to do with weather anyway?

[darthdarcy]

Must have been an order from The Bilderberg Group..they control so much of our media..especially NBC..and ABC..!

Just watch Meet the Press which should be called, Meet your Oppressors..!

[patianneb]

With about four exceptions (Boston Legal, Olbermann, Maddow & Matthews) NBC sucks.

[zachmiller]

Boston Legal is produced by Fox and airs on ABC.

Maybe you're thinking of... um... My Name Is Earl?

[patianneb]

I realized the ABC bit after I wrote it....I stand corrected ... ONLY THREE exceptions, then.
(Never watched "earl" -- no opinion)

[tcagle]

Maybe Dave can take over for the Shamwow! guy now.

[mjb5406]

NBC Universal has itsz head up its corporate ass... like putting WWE Wrestling on the SciFi Channel and killing off shows there like Stargate SG-1 and Atlantis. Or killing The 4400 on USA with nothing to "tie up" the loose ends. But they sure love making really crappy made-for-TV movies!

[RallyGrrrl]

My favorite is Spike - CSI followed by .... UFC?

[JTyroler]

I didn't realize that "Green Week" was how to save money instead of the planet.

[RobinSeattle]

GE strikes again.

[BSERIUS]

About time.... Hey Heidi Cullen,,, John Coleman , the guy who founded the network, was right about the sci fi of global warming

[MIMom]

Wow, Green really IS Universal...the color of money, that is.

[ohiomark]

I guess the global warming hoax is not selling as well as they had hoped.

The "green" fad is waning, it's time to move onto the next scam.

[Gasparilla]

Sure thing. Let's just keep pretending that we can all drive SUVs til the end of time.

[omenapt]

WOW ! I'll miss ole Dave, not so much for veteran Cheryl "Empty" and Eboni Dione never really caught on!

[olephart]

Instead of "Forecast Earth" maybe they could put on specials with cute kids touting clean coal or the benefits of West Virginia mountain top removal for strip mining or maybe a nature show of timber removal in the Amazon. The possibilities are endless if you"re into slash and burn programming.

[VOTER]

NBC is a wasteland.