Conversations in Broadcasting #37

The local news program that appeared on the main broadcast channel for WKRG-TV during the first half of the hour of 10:00 p.m. on the Wednesday of the twenty-ninth day of the month of August for the calendar year 2018 ("WKRG News 5 at 10") appeared to have had this conversation between its news presenters (Mel Showers and Rose Ann Haven) and one of its reporters (a weather reporter named Thomas Geboy):

Mel Showers: Be weather aware -- it is the peak of hurricane season.   

Rose Ann Haven: Now there are no tropical systems yet, but our First Alert Storm Team says there could be possible development in the coming days. Let's check in now with meteorologist Thomas Geboy.

Thomas Geboy: Yeah there are a couple of things we are watching, but like you said thankfully there's -- there's nothing out there currently, but before we delve into that, I just wanted to go ahead and talk about it: today is the thirteenth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina. It really is hard to believe, but, before Hurricane Katrina hit, a lot of folks saw this satellite image of a category five hurricane that had winds of a hundred and seventy five miles per hour as it was moving towards areas such as Louisiana and then all, [basically] we saw that satellite lapse. Hurricane Katrina -- again, I said -- I've been saying it all evening, changed and took a thousand -- took thousands of lives, it impacted my life and makes it again the reason why I wanted to become a meteorologist, but hurricane Katrina and a lot of hurricanes that have hit the gulf of Mexico definitely are memorable, and it's always important to remember to be prepared and never get complacent.

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The local news program that appeared on the main broadcast channel for WALA-TV during the hour of 9:00 p.m. on the Tuesday of the twenty-eighth day of the month of August for the calendar year 2018 ("FOX 10 News at 9:00 p.m.") appeared to have had this conversation between its news presenters (Byron Day and Lenise Ligon) and one of its reporters (a weather reporter named Jason Smith):

Jason Smith: Our dayplanner shows a warming trend -- after some coastal showers, we'll get up around ninety and then thundershowers will pop and miss around the area -- it'll be hit and miss -- and then looking ahead, we're getting closer to the, weekend, and highs near ninety -- Sunday's...right at eighty-nine, other days right about ninety -- it'll feel about the same; we'll have the heat and the humidity, overnight lows in the seventies and rain chances running forty to fifty percent every day. No big change, a look at the seven-day forecast coming up, a more in-depth look at the tropics, but, all in all, it's about all what you would expect--

Byron Day: Sure--

Jason Smith: -- as you're grinding through the last of the summer pattern.

Byron Day: Yeah.

Lenise Ligon: It's the Labor Day weekend, though.

Byron Day: Yeah, football--

Lenise Ligon: We'd want good weather.

Byron Day: -- football, football, I love it.

Jason Smith: A lot going on. Yeah.

Lenise Ligon: All right.

Byron Day: Thanks, Jason.