PM Edition Weekend

PM Edition Weekend (formerly PM Edition) is a weather program on The Weather Channel, an American television station. It focuses on weather conditions for the evening commute. It also recaps the day's weather and delivers the forecast for tomorrow.

Program history

PM Edition and sister program Afternoon Outlook were launched in fall 2003^[1][2] and helped finish the compartmentalization of the TWC programming day, which transformed the network from Weather Center to a myriad of different shows with set hosts and tone. The original pair of meteorologists for the program was Carl Parker and Kristina Abernathy.

The program, originally two hours in length airing from 6PM to 8PM Eastern Time was expanded to three hours, (airing from 4PM to 7PM eastern) on September 25, 2006 as a result of the cancellation of Afternoon Outlook and the debut of Abrams And Bettes: Beyond The Forecast. In September 2007, the program once again returned to two hours in length airing from 5PM to 7PM eastern. In March 2009, the show returned to three hours in length replacing the afternoon hour of Weather Center which was revamped as a primetime program. The format of the program is slightly different on the weekends as the program airs late at night during the weekends, starting at 11PM eastern and ending at 2AM eastern. The weekend format primarily focuses on the day's significant weather events similar to Evening Edition and the current weeknight version of Weather Center. In the event an ongoing significant weather event occurs (e.g., severe weather outbreak, winter storm, hurricane threatening the United States), the weekday edition of PM Edition may begin one hour earlier, preempting long-form programming during the 3PM-4PM eastern timeslot.

A major shift in The Weather Channel's programming schedule began on September 27, 2010. With this change, PM Edition became a weekend only show, airing one hour blocks at 4PM, 7PM, 10PM and 1AM Eastern Time Saturdays and Sundays. Carl Parker and Heather Tesch, the hosts of Weekend Now, became the hosts of the 4PM eastern hour, while Kim Cunningham and Adam Berg stayed as hosts of the remaining hour long blocks. PM Edition now only airs a one hour block at 4PM eastern on The Weather Channel and was replaced with Weather Center the remaining hour blocks.

Schedule

All times are eastern time.

Saturdays and Sundays

• 4PM to 5PM with Todd Santos & Maria LaRosa

Former hosts

• Jennifer Lopez - left on June 3, 2008 after moving to Dallas, Texas and became the weekday morning meteorologist for KXAS-TV.
• Kristina Abernathy - laid off in February 2009 from The Weather Channel. She was with PM Edition until she was laid off.
• Betty Davis - left in March 2009 for Weekend View (Part 2). She left that show, and The Weather Channel on July 31, 2010.
• Carl Parker - left in March 2009 for Day Planner and Weekend Now
• Samantha Mohr - left in March 2009 for PM Edition Weekend (Part 2). She originally anchored alongside Betty Davis on the weekday edition of PM Edition.

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