Station Was In A Rush To Predict Good Weather
We’ve heard of managing the news, but managing the weather seems ridiculous.
That, however, is what former KMJ radio weatherman Sean Boyd claims the Fresno, Calif., station attempted to do as a favor for conservative talk-show host Rush Limbaugh.
Boyd was fired from the station, he says, because he refused to change his forecast of rain for a scheduled Limbaugh picnic.
As reported by the Columbia Journalism Review, “His bosses high-pressured him to put more sunshine in the forecast lest supporters stay away from the profitable event.”
The event ended up being marred by drizzle.
Boyd also claims he was urged to change his forecast of “partly cloudy skies, breezy and cool with highs in the upper 50s and 60s” for a station-sponsored golf tournament to “mostly sunny with a high near 70.”
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