COMMENTS: Blizzard Will Hit Overnight -- or During the Overnight Hour
Blanket coverage of the blizzard heading for New England was the obvious choice for Story of the Day. Correspondents were dotted all over the northeast: ABC's Ginger Zee and CBS' Terrell Brown in Boston; NBC's Ron Mott in Providence; ABC's Gio Benitez in Connecticut; CBS' Seth Doane and ABC's Ron Claiborne along the Sandy-ravaged Atlantic seaboard; NBC's Rehema Ellis outside a closed LaGuardia Airport; CBS' Jim Axelrod with New York City's Strongest as they prepared to plow. ABC's Benitez reported on the instruction that cars get off the highway from the inside of a car traveling towards the storm. NBC's Mott told us that so much liquor was leaving Rhode Island's package stores that this weekend was Christmas in February for them. Such coverage was all very well for local viewers in the storm zone. Yet these are national newscasts. It is not clear that the looming storm was important for the rest of the country.
There was an entire gaggle of meteorologists deployed, too. NBC made use of its sibling network The Weather Channel to showcase Jim Cantore and Mike Seidel. ABC and NBC used their morning show weathermen, Sam Champion (at the tail of the Claiborne videostream) and Al Roker. CBS consulted its affiliate system, WFOR-TV's David Bernard, the hurricane expert in Miami. ABC showed off Ginger Zee, the leader of its eXtreme Weather-Team.
What is this weird Wilson-Pickett-style TV-weather locution that three of them used? We know about The Midnight Hour but not…
"into the overnight" -- Ginger Zee
"during the overnight hour" -- David Bernard
"throughout the overnight hour" -- Sam Champion.
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