Wednesday, January 24, 2024

“Weather and Radio Have Always Gone Hand in Hand”

 

Bruce Robertson serves stations with a turnkey weather service
BY NICK LANGAN 

With nostalgia for the late 20th century and all the rage of late, here’s another piece of it for you: Do you remember the satisfaction of being able to place a call to your local TV station, bank or phone company to hear the current time and local temperature?

For Bruce Robertson, “time and temp” became his life, forging a path spanning three decades to today, which finds him offering a turnkey on-air weather service to radio stations known as WeatherMonster.

“I called the time and temperature lines, growing up near Buffalo, constantly as a kid,” he said. “I always thought of it as radio on the phone.”

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