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Article: Job Forecast: Degrees on the Horizon; As Local News Competes for Viewers, Meteorologists Take a Starring Role.(Newspro)
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- TelevisionWeek
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- October 18, 2004
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Byline: Michele Greppi
While TV weathercasters with a degree in meteorology are much more common today than in the past, not everyone agrees with the prevailing wisdom that the weathercaster without a degree is an endangered species.
Take Al Roker of NBC's "Today,'' for one. He argues that the movement away from the days when a likable person read a National Weather Service forecast is just another swing of the pendulum that leads to premature declarations of something's demise ... until someone comes along and proves them wrong.
He notes that neither he nor his competitors, Tony Perkins of ABC's "Good Morning America'' and Dave Price of CBS's ...