As I mentioned earlier this week, we have an AM Weather vacancy. I have already reached out to agents and the position will be posted shortly.
Meanwhile, our own Brittany Decker has quietly been interested in pursuing a weather career – and a meteorology degree – for the past few months. With that in mind – and with us looking for someone – Brittany will begin working with our Meteorology team to “learn the ropes” of weather. At some point in the coming weeks, we’ll look at how she is progressing and weigh her potential to join the News8 team. I bring this up because you will be seeing her working with Gil, SteveM & Erica in the studio quite a bit over the next few weeks, and figured you might get curious J
We’ll continue to look at other applicants even as we monitor Brittany’s progress. Meteorology is a very involved science, and the ability to tell a good weather story is something only a precious few can do well. My goal here is to find the person who can best be a part of our newsroom and weather team, both now and down the road, and I think we’ll do that.
Are you kidding. We go from doctor Mel to a piece of eye candy. This is why no one watches the news because these stations are run by idiots. It’s about the content!
Bye bye credibility. Its an embarrassment that they would even contemplate hiring someone who is not a meteorologist in a state that weather is so important in our daily lives. WTNH just lost another viewer.
Way to undermine the credibility of true meteorologists, the weather team and the entire news organization. While I can appreciate the aesthetics of having a young, pretty girl as part of the team, to include her on the weather team is outrageous. The viewers of CT rely on meteorologists to keep them safe. Given the volatile weather in the state, including earthquakes, blizzards and tropical storms that have struck in the past year, how can you expect the viewers to have confidence in an individual with no experience in the science of weather? What a joke.
“Learning the ropes of weather”?? Like learning the ropes of medicine, law, biology, engineering, etc., over a few weeks??? Doesn’t that take a few years of formal education? Great, make her an intern, behind the scenes, while she studies the science at an academic institution before throwing her on the air w/the responsibility of keeping the public informed and safe. Let her *EARN* a “spot with the News 8 Team” by paying her dues; don’t reward a beauty pagaent winner just for being. This is a bad, bad idea, and very boneheaded on the part of management.
Local news is a caricature of it’s former self; WTNH in New Haven is sadly, at the vanguard of this pathetic trend. Local news? Ha—it’s all just Show Business.
Oh but she’s considered “hot” so her credentials are secondary. That seems to be the mindset of Channek 8. Can’t wait for her explanation of bombogenesis.
[…] to be taking a crack at meteorology. As mentioned in a staff memo posted by our friends at The Laurel, Decker will begin the learning process to become a weather presenter with News8 and MyTV9. Check […]
What do you expect from a station that copied the identity of heritage station WOR-TV?
For those of you who don’t know, that’s the real channel 9 in Secaucus, NJ … one of the few VHF stations available over the air in southern & western Connecticut before the advent of cable in the 1980s.
I’m a WCSU student studying my butt off to become a meteorologist and I can tell you that they have a meteorologist on staff whose been doing behind the scenes work for a while now. Look him up on youtube, his name is Sam Kantrow and as “An actual Connecticut Meteorologist” said, he’s paid his dues. How Pathetic are they to not give him a shot and just hire eye candy!
I’m cringing
This young lady works so hard at everything she does. She is extremely intelligent and has gradutated at the top of her class. You have no idea what she does on a daily basis. If you don’t know someone, please don’t judge them. Brittany you are going to do a wonderful job!
To the last “Anonymous” : But Brittany is accustomed to being judged! She was judged to have a pretty face and body. You darned well better believe she’s being judged as a “meteorologist” who never formally studied the science yet has been tapped to, somehow, provide a scientifically-based forecast for public use, over individuals who have actual credentials.
Your admiration for the young lady is nice. Your support of academic dishonesty and use of public airewaves to provide a *disservice* is contemptible.