Twenty years on the air

When I arrived at The Weather Channel (TWC) in the fall of 1982, a mere 6 months after startup, everything was new. As with any company that is new, the earliest days were full of experimentation, creativity, and most of all excitement. The on-air presentations were spontaneous and often entertaining in a very diverse way, as the station searched for the consistent look that has become its stock in trade. Of course, any time you have more than one meteorologist together in a room you automatically have excitement and enthusiasm about the weather. When these two elements came together in the same place at the same time with active weather, the atmosphere was lively indeed. Holidays …