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Allen Media Group has yet to terminate any of its local meteorologists and is continuing to evaluate who will remain at its local stations, shift to the Allen-owned Weather Channel or be let go, a source close to the station group said Friday.
“It is all a work in progress, trying to take weather forecasting to the next level,” the source says. “No one’s been laid off. Not one meteorologist has been escorted out of the station or given an end date.”
This contradicts reports that at least a dozen had already been fired.
The source adds that some local meteorologists will be invited to work from The Weather Channel’s Atlanta campus, where they will have access to the network’s immersive mixed reality and other technologies to bring to their local market forecasting. A release from the company last week noted the new Atlanta-based new team would be led by meteorologist Carl Parker, a storm and climate specialist and 20-year veteran of The Weather Channel.
Other meteorologists will remain at their stations and still others will ultimately be let go from the company.
The transition will happen over the course of the year, the source notes, with no final decisions yet made.
Allen Media Group owns 36 stations in 21 markets across the U.S. A CNN report earlier this week said the change will impact about 50 meteorologists across the company, while other reports put that number closer to 100. The news sparked an immediate backlash from some of AMG’s own meteorologists, across social media and in a