Wake Up With Al

Wake Up With Al
Format	News program
Presented by	Stephanie Abrams Al Roker
Country of origin	United States
Production
Location(s)	Atlanta, Georgia New York City, New York
Camera setup	Multi-camera
Running time	60 minutes (60 minutes, rebroadcast)
Broadcast
Original channel	The Weather Channel
Picture format	480i (SD) 1080i (HD)
Original run	July 20, 2009 (2009-07-20) – present
External links
[www.weather.com/wakeup Website]

Wake Up With Al is a weekday morning weather program on The Weather Channel. It premiered on July 20, 2009. The program runs from 5:30-7 a.m. Eastern time; with a re-broadcast for the West Coast from 10-11 a.m. Eastern Time (7-8 am Pacific Time) , containing live weather updates from Stephanie Abrams mixed with recorded segments from the original broadcast.

Program history

The program is co-hosted by Today weather anchor Al Roker and The Weather Channel meteorologist Stephanie Abrams. Roker hosts from the Today Show studio in New York City with a large touchscreen for presenting weather, Abrams is also in studio with Roker. MSNBC anchor Lynn Berry provides news headlines for Wake Up with Al from MSNBC world headquarters in Manhattan. In addition to weather forecasts, a celebrity interview usually is aired during the program, in a manner similar to Today.

Original program logo, used from July 20, 2009-April 13, 2012.

In rare instances however, the initial 6 a.m. broadcast may be extended to two hours from 5-7 a.m. ET (effectively pushing back the start time of lead-in First Outlook by one hour), and the 10 a.m. ET rebroadcast may be replaced or preempted with an entirely live telecast in the event an ongoing significant weather event occurs (e.g., severe weather outbreak, winter storm, hurricane threatening the United States). Weather Channel fans have criticized the show for focusing more on entertainment than weather.

On April 16, 2012, the show was "relaunched" with a new opening title sequence and graphics introduced. In addition, Stephanie Abrams would begin co-hosting the program from the New York City studio for three months to see how the chemistry is when Roker and Abrams are in the same studio. According to insiders, if this is successful, this switch will be permanent.

Logo from April 2012 - November 9, 2012

When Al Roker and Stephanie Abrams are on assignment, Mike Bettes will anchor with Maria LaRosa during the 6 and 10 a.m. editions from The Weather Channel's Atlanta studios.

When Al Roker went to cover the Olympics alongside Jim Cantore, Stephanie Abrams returned to the Atlanta Studios and she and Mike Bettes resumed all three hours of Your Weather Today. But later on when Al returned, Stephanie came back to New York City. She will host Your Weather Today from New York permanently. Richard Lui hosts the MSNBC weather headlines from the studio that Al and Stephanie use.

The Weather Channel announced a massive programming change to all shows. Wake Up With Al now airs 5:30-7am as part of the morning changes, which occurred November 12, 2012. With it, WUWA debuted new graphics after six months.

If there is an ongoing, significant weather event (severe weather outbreak, winter storm, hurricane threatening the U.S.), Wake up with Al will air from 5:00AM-7:00AM, and the 10:00AM-11:00AM version will be pre-empted by an additional hour of Morning Rush. Also, Wake Up With Al may air on the weekends from 5 to 7 am as well, dependebt on how major the major weather event is.

Segments

• Coast to Coast
• Weather Now
• Weather in the News
• Bus Stop Forecast
• msnbc News Headlines
• CNBC Business Barometer
• Celebrity Forecast
• WUWA Rewind
• I-Witness
• WUWA Access
• Al's Big 3
• The Weather Ripple Effect
• On The Road & In The Air
• Farmers Forecast

On-air staff

Current hosts

• Stephanie Abrams (2009–present)
• Al Roker (2009–present)
• Mike Bettes - fill-in and segment correspondent (2009–present)
• Maria LaRosa - fill-in and segment correspondent (2011–present)
• Richard Lui - MSNBC news headlines seg.