I wonder....with AccuWeather supposedly starting sometime this month,,,,could they have poached a few people from Weathernation? I still haven't Kristin in ages

I spoke with Katie Ferrier over a week ago via Facebook message.

I did notice that her Twitter page disappeared. She still has her professional FB page and I suppose that's what we're going to have to accept.

It gets even worse: Apparently you can't download the videos anymore. I use IDM Module through Google Chrome, and the appropriate icon is no longer visible.

Well, on one hand you could say yes, she has -- but you could also say no, too.

Confused? Okay, let's try connecting the dots....and there are a lot of them!

First off, going right to the source -- here's Kristin's LinkedIn page:

http://www.linkedin.com/pub/kristin-clark/30/477/155

As you can see, she now lists her current work as being 3 things:
Meteorologist for "2 Wheel Weather" (this is a private company, doesn't involve broadcasting.)
On-Air Meteorologist for Media Logic Group
On-Air Meteorologist at KARE-11

If you scroll down for details, it says at KARE she's a weekday fill-in only.

Then she lists her time at WeatherNation as having ended this July.
(Not entirely true-- since I spotted her on there in mid-August one night)
So how can she be gone but still show up from time to time?

We have to go back to how WeatherNation began... They were created in 2010 specially by and for Dish Network,
when there was the dispute with TWC that might have had them dropped from the Dish lineup.

Dish Network called on Media Logic Group (see above) to help form the new weather station.
Media Logic is and always has been -- based in Minneapolis. Kristin, and a number of the others we're familiar with,
like Katie and Miranda, were already employed at Media Logic. So they all became part of this by default.

Here's Media Logic's staff page: (the division is named "Broadcast Weather" )
http://www.broadcast-weather.com/index.php/team/

As of now anyway, Kristin, Katie, Miranda, Susie and Gretchen, plus a number of the guys are still formally on
the Media Logic team. Katie --as someone mentioned on another thread recently, is more active in sales than
on-air.
http://www.linkedin.com/pub/katie-ferrier/17/2a8/a9

Take a close look at the sales video on Media Logic's page, you'll see some familiar faces:
http://www.medialogicgroup.com/company/
(down near the bottom of page)

Now we have to step back and look at Dish Network. Remember, Dish is headquartered in Colorado.
So the recent moves to establish a Denver-based studio for WeatherNation makes sense for them anyway.
I think the whole plan all along was to gradually de-emphasize the "field office" in Minneapolis as they
worked out the bugs and got the Denver operations up and running.

It's likely the reason we're seeing less of the Minnesota crew is because Media Logic has been like a
contracted service to assist WeatherNation -- not be the center of it's universe permanently.
They're just part of the partnership.

Kristin showing up in August was probably just her getting "called up from the bullpen" to fill a shift here and
there, but it's probably going to be less and less common from now on.
And the same goes for the others at Media Logic.

To further add to the confusion, WeatherNation's own page still shows Kristin as part of the lineup:

http://weathernationtv.com/on_tv/team/

But it's obvious that she's opening up other career paths now the less they need her.

Hope that helps piece things together!


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They have a studio in Colorado so they can be closer to Dish Network? DirecTV has it too, are they going to put a team in California? Rich Eisen's new show on Audience Network originates from DirecTV headquarters in El Segundo.