It looks like The Weather Channel is hunkering down for another stormy patch.
COO Freddy Flaxman is leaving the company, and over the new few months, CEO David Shull will be spending more time in L.A. with the Weather Channel’s new parent company Entertainment Studios, as opposed to Atlanta, where the Weather Group is headquartered.
It has been a volatile few years for the Weather Channel, including layoffs in 2015 , the 2016 departure of former Good Morning America weather anchor Sam Champion, and programming changes driven by an evolution in how audiences consume weather news.
Weather Channel co-founder John Coleman passed away in January, and in March, The Blackstone Group, Bain Capital, and Comcast/NBCUniversal sold
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