Allen Media Group has decided not to proceed with its initial plan to terminate or reassign nearly 100 local meteorologists following significant public outrage. As AFROTECH™ previously reported, the media company owned by Byron Allen planned to eliminate meteorologists at over 36 local television stations and replace them with pre-recorded forecasts from a hub of

Less than a week after announcing that it would replace local weathercasters at its local TV stations, Allen Media Group decided on Thursday to scrap its plans after viewer outcry.

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Broadcast stations, which rely on local news to generate profits, have seen viewership fall as more people receive their weather reports via social media.

Allen Media Broadcasting, the company run by media mogul Byron Allen that owns WAAY in Huntsville and WCOV in Montgomery, announced Monday it planned on having The Weather Channel’s studios handle local weather.

It has been an emotional time for meteorologists at nearly two dozen Allen Media Group television stations across the country. Deep cuts at the company have forced all local meteorologists to be eliminated or reassigned and replaced by a feed beamed to individual stations from The Weather Channel.

The company is still moving forward with plans to build a regional forecasting hub, but has decided to pause its strategy of laying off TV meteorologists at some stations. This article, Allen Media reverses plan to lay off some TV meteorologists,

Allen Media Group is reportedly reversing its controversial plan to ax local meteorologists and replace them with a Weather Channel feed after facing heated backlash from loyal viewers, who called the move “greedy,