Well, without a question, the Fox Weather app is the No. Which ones have been the real differentiators for you in terms of being able to give something that’s really unique to your audience? You also launched with a lot of very fancy weather tools in your arsenal there. You had an immediate baptism by fire essentially when you launched. So, I think the overwhelming headline for me as Fox Weather’s debuted is the amount of significant weather we have been able to cover. We had huge, severe storms across portions of the Midwest late into last year. We were covering it, the Pacific Northwest. We can even go back into our opening months where we had the atmospheric river. That is just looking at sort of 10 months of the year. These are disasters that cost $1 billion or more. I mean, if you look at even just this year or 2022, there have been $15 billion weather events. I think what’s been probably the biggest headline for me in the last 12 months is how many weather events we have been covering. What has surprised you most about the experience? Not many people get to be there at the launch of a national weather channel. It has been one year of Fox Weather to which you came from, I believe, WABC in New York. I know sometimes in television people make up their names or adjust their name, so maybe it’s easier for people to remember to say. He’s passed down a long line of jokes to me, so it’s fine to talk about it and I love it. And you know what? I do like to talk about my name because it’s the one I was born with. I love that, thank you for the introduction. And just to get this out there up front, she has the best name ever for someone doing the weather on TV, though I’m sure she’s absolutely sick of hearing about that from people.Īmy Freeze: Hi, Michael. In addition to her role as a meteorologist there, Amy is also presenting a special on the 10-year anniversary of Superstorm Sandy on Fox Weather this week. Forty of them are meteorologists, and one of them is Amy Freeze, my guest today. Since its debut, Fox Weather has seen 2 million downloads of its app since the launch. The new network - or service or digital offering or FAST channel or all of the above, depending on your taxonomies - has caused a major change in the landscape of TV weather. Michael Depp: Fox Weather rounded the corner of its first anniversary this week. Episode transcript below, edited for clarity.
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