Gothamist
A non-profit newsroom, powered by WNYC.
Gothamist
Listen Live
News
TV News Loves Snow: A Look at Yesterday's Coverage
By
Toby von Meistersinger
Published Dec 14, 2007
Modified Mar 7, 2008
Share
FacebookTwitterRedditEmail
Never miss a story
Email address
By submitting your information, you're agreeing to receive communications from New York Public Radio in accordance with our Terms .
By
Toby von Meistersinger
Published Dec 14, 2007
Modified Mar 7, 2008
Share
FacebookTwitterRedditEmail
We rely on your support to make local news available to all
Make your contribution now and help Gothamist thrive in 2026. Donate today
Gothamist is funded by sponsors and member donations
In Following the Equator, Mark Twain wrote:
“In America the ice-storm is an event. And it is not an event which one is careless about. When it comes, the news flies from room to room in the house, there are bangings on the doors, and shoutings, ‘The ice-storm! the ice-storm!’ and even the laziest sleepers throw off the covers and join the rush for the windows.”
Yesterday, we had the latter day equivalent, with television reporters being dispatched to the always good for snow northern suburbs to cover the snow and ice.
The morning, of course, started with the requisite school closing and delays being displayed on the screen taking up either a great deal of screen real estate at the expense of the morning news show, as seen on WPIX and WNYW, or relegated into the space normally reserved for the news crawl. As the day progressed, there were updates and by the 5:00 hour, there was team coverage from all over the tri-state from rainy Long Island to the slushy city to delay filled airports to the always hit with the most snow northern suburbs. WNBC and WCBS even had “tag team” weather – having one weather presenter/meteorologist in front of the green screen and a meteorologist in the weather center.
If it wasn’t for the huge story of the baseball steroids scandal, we would have most likely been inundated with even more weather coverage. Thankfully things calmed down a bit by 6 p.m. when there was only about ten minutes dedicated to weather and as the evening progressed the amount of weather coverage basically halved with WNBC leading with the baseball scandal and everyone else leading with weather.
We don’t seem to recall the tag team weather last winter season, which we have to admit seemed a little over the top and something you would find in some truly weather obsessed market. Now, we thought the WCBS branding of Eye on the Storm was brilliant, since it is a play on the CBS “eye” logo.
Still, we thought there was some overkill all around the dial, especially compared to last winter. We also wonder how many stories fell through the cracks or didn’t get enough attention. Just unimportant little stories like the New Jersey Legislature being the first state in 30 years to vote to abolish the death penalty.
Tagged
america
As
baseball
cbs
death
death penalty
In America
long island
mark twain
new jersey
news
overkill
real estate
snow
storm
suburbs
television
The Doors
tv
tv news
wabc
wcbs
weather
wnbc
wpix
WWOR
Toby von Meistersinger
Read more
Gothamist is funded by sponsors and member donations
Gothamist is funded by sponsors and member donations
MORE news
Man messaged 'I got straight poison' before giving NYC college students fentanyl, feds say
A transcript from an April court hearing sheds new light on what transpired at Fashion Institute of Technology.
By
Samantha Max
Published Oct 16, 2026 at 4:07 p.m. ET
Inside the plan to fix the nearly collapsed Pfizer Building, 1/64th of an inch at a time
Construction crews will jack up sagging floors where two key structural columns bent in July.
By
David Brand
News
Inside the plan to fix the nearly collapsed Pfizer Building, 1/64th of an inch at a time
Construction crews will jack up sagging floors where two key structural columns bent in July.
By
David Brand
School bus carrying autistic students got lost in Brooklyn for 4 hours last year
By
Jessica Gould
NYC’s bridges can last 'forever,' if we take care of them
By
Clayton Guse
Queens mother charged with murder in death of 5-year-old daughter, NYPD says
By
Ryan Kost
Never miss a story
Catch up on the most important headlines with a roundup of essential NYC stories, delivered to your inbox daily.
Sign upEmail address
By submitting your information, you're agreeing to receive communications from New York Public Radio in accordance with our Terms .