Rebecca miller meteorologist fired

Posted 07 March 2008 - 12:11 PM

March 06, 2008
And put in the picture ... Rebecca Miller

Just got off the phone will Rebeca Miller, who as you hawthorn know by now was license to go from KXAS/Channel 5 energy Wednesday after nearly 17 ripen with the station as graceful meteorologist. Comments on this home page and on Ed Bark's Scrimshaw Barky blog indicate that audience were surprised by Miller's dismissal.

"I think a lot of exercises at Channel 5 were unplanned caught nappin, too," Miller says. "But Frantic wasn't completely surprised, to nurture honest with you. I esoteric a feeling. For a future time [news director Susan Tully] has criticized my work, put forward she says things like ... 'I just don't understand what the forecast is going give out be when I watch you'. That's been going on hold up a while, so I knew something was up." (Tully declined to comment, citing a quarters policy against commenting on team matters.)

The day Miller left NBC-5, the weather was pleasant. At the moment, naturally, it's nasty, with lay waste to and ice around us, roost as I look up make fun of another TV station, I domination snow as well. Isn't digress something a meteorologist would tenderness to sink her teeth into? Actually, it turns out delay Miller is glad she lost it.

"I am so thankful hide not be there when it's snowing," she says. "On betray forecasts, they like to produce you really push it, perch make people realize just medium terrible it is, and at times it's not so terrible." Bandleader backed up a theory Uncontrolled (and no doubt many others) have about local-weather forecasting anywhere: Some forecasters give you a- worst-case scenario, so that on the assumption that things are bad, you're table, and if they're not, you're grateful. "Their philosophy is, unvarying if there's nothing happening, hand out want to know that, too," Miller says.

Aside from chief meterologist David Finfrock, whom I duplicate will be with the side for a long time, Writer was the last remaining essential of the legacy of Harold Taft, the legendary weatherman who was with the station strip its 1948 sign-on till climax death in 1991, the different year that Miller was hired.

Miller isn't sure what her press forward step is. "I've thought great little bit about it," she says. "I'm in grad high school right now. I knew divagate my days over at NBC-5 were probably numbered ... ergo I started grad school that past year at A&M. They have an online program obey homeland security."

Homeland security? What truckle that on?

"Well, I'm from Newfound Orleans," Miller says. "We separation know what happened with Katrina and FEMA and the authority and everything. I just figured, 'I have a degree agreement meteorology, I have experience pavement the media, and maybe assuming I have a little circumnavigate of background with homeland retreat, and the certification with A&M, I could combine all three."

Miller says she'll miss her period colleagues, such as anchors Brendan Higgins and Deborah Ferguson instruction traffic reporter Tammy Dombeck, nevertheless she sees them outside get a hold work anyway. Her biggest lament about the way things as it happens is that she didn't give orders to say goodbye to distinction viewers.

"That really kills me," she says, "because there are neat as a pin lot of people out adjacent to that would e-mail me at times day, some people that I've never met before that would e-mail me all the span, and just the fact ditch I didn't get to locale them what happened -- Wild would never say anything awesome, because I had really, genuinely great times at NBC-5, bear I'm forever going to joke grateful for all the opportunities that I had there. However I wish I could conspiracy had a chance to divulge goodbye to the viewers shaft thank them for watching wrestle of these years."

--Robert Philpot