The Weather Channel in Atlanta - new set

After only few months of use The Weather Channel in Atlanta redesigned their brand new set. The entire channel was relocated to temp set for the past month or so in order to build a new set for the new morning program AMHQ .
Something IMO is off about the lighting. Dont like the wood but i do sorta like the curved video screen window in the corner.

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You can watch a timelapse video of the construction here.
http://www.weather.com/video/watch-amhqs-hq-get-built-45652

Here is some presentation for all of the weather channel~
Show openers + teasers:


Local Weather (Local On The 8S)

This isn't a redesign, the AMHQ set was added on to the new set that debuted earlier this year. They had to move to their smaller set due to construction in the main studio (which included some additions to the Weather Center Live set too).

The Weather Channel - Atlanta in August re-launched their experts desk which was located in the newsroom of the Weather Channel, into something they are calling THE LAB. For a country that has possibly the worst weather, what TWC has put together is impressive. They resigned their forecast center completely. Hopefully they will continue to include the minutia of weather that the geeks have been screaming for. It will be interesting to see how this is used in the spring when the Tornado Alley heats up. It will get literally hours and hours of use on air non-stop when Dr Forbes and others do marathon coverage.

This is the new on-air work space that the 7 ON-AIR experts broadcast from. (Dr Greg Forbes, Dr Postel, Brian Norcoss, etc) So if there is a hurricane approaching or if there are tornadoes the on air meteorologists usually toss to an expert in that field to anchor specifics about a particular storm cells etc. They now have proper work space with all the tools they need to work with on-air. (Though I think the chalk board is kinda silly, probably included by an overzealous set designer)


Here is the video tour

America is quite a silly country, isn't it.

No just the chalk board.

Throughout history, certain European observers have tended to look down at all the different "silly" things coming from America: it's "silly" language, its "silly" clothing, its "silly" right to free speech, its "silly" republican form of government, its "silly" jazz music, its "silly" 24-hour television, its "silly" pop radio, its "silly" rock'n'roll, and so on. But guess what? All of these ideas -- and many more -- were eventually embraced by the rest of the world.

Assuming that something is "more normal" just because it's European -- or "silly" because it's American -- is merely the reversal of the old "Ugly American" syndrome, and it's just as unattractive.

It's interesting to note that people don't call, say, China silly for being different, and don't feel threatened by its its influence. But America, primarily by the virtue of having European origins and a European language, is immediately dismissed as silly for not resorting to a European view of "things as they have always been done" or "tradition for tradition's sake" -- the frequent curse of the British and European mindset.

Or he was just making a joke about the blackboard.

Does that mean that European television will soon have 30 presenters standing around a circular desk clutching iPads to present a single weather forecast in a few years?

Those are weather experts, each of whom only appears on screen (one at a time) if severe weather threatens -- or to explain interesting weather phenomena.

But that's not the point. I just don't think that there is any value in unthinking one-liners, sadly all-to-common here in recent months, that routinely dismiss everything American -- especially since so much relating to television, including television news as we know it today, originally came from the U.S.*

* The BBC went on the air first, but its only newscasts were essentially radio bulletins delivered from behind a static slide.

Oh, and it's not a "single weather forecast," but a dedicated weather channel, not all that different from what exists in, say, France:

No and neither does the Weather Channel as you so wrongly assume. The UK doenst have tornado outbreaks or major hurricanes and other frequent storms that destroy things as does the US. The on-air meteorologists in the regular studio will toss coverage to the expert to provide detailed coverage. Dr Greg Forbes is a preeminent doctor of meteorology, helping to develop the EF Tornado scale with Dr Fujita.
This LAB set will replace this area they previously used to do detailed coverage such as this:


Here is sever stor