The Weather Channel Virtual Tour

I opened this thinking I'd seen weather rooms and TV news sets before...we tend to have good ones here in tornado-prone Kansas. But I wasn't prepared for this!

The Weather Channel's HD Studio of the Future is truly state of the art, and fascinating in its detail.

Studios are almost always much smaller than the viewer would imagine, and although this is compact, it is designed to allow for eleven different configurations of the reporters' desks. Eleven!! It's also four stories high and wide enough for an HD camera.

My favorite part are the swivel green screens. They are internally lit and have green on one side and wall-coloring on the other and can be used in both the nook-like interview corner and a side room from which broadcasting is done. It's definitely high-tech, and crams a lot of design into a small space.

It's been a long time since I've watched a Weather Channel broadcast, but that may need to change!