Weather channel

• followed warnings from the National Weather Service and The Weather Channel that placed Nebraska in a high risk for tornadic activity on Saturday.
(Lincoln Journal Star)
• The Weather Channel Cos. has named Curt Hecht to the newly-created position of chief global revenue officer. Hecht joins the company after spending 20 years with Publicis Groupe, most recently as CEO of the VivaKi Nerve Center in Paris.
(Multichannel Online)
• The Weather Channel Cos. has tapped Karen Marderosian  to head its advertising offiice in Detroit.
(Multichannel Online)
• At least one tornado was on the ground in Norman, Oklahoma on Friday evening, part of a severe storm system passing through the Oklahoma City metropolitan area, The Weather Channel reports.
(Huffington Post)
• The Weather Channel is reporting there is a 70 percent chance of tornadoes in the Wichita area after sunset today.
(Wichita Eagle)
• Stormy the Weather Dog was adopted by KWTV Channel 9 News in Oklahoma City from the Central Oklahoma Humane Society in Oklahoma City. She travels around Oklahoma with Gary England and the rest of the weather team to help educate children about the weather.
(Examiner)
• Event staff hustled them into the tunnels, concourses and bowels of Memorial Stadium. Briefly, HuskerVision screens were tuned to the Weather Channel before looping Nebraska highlights from 2011. For 90 minutes, it poured.
(Omaha World-Herald)
• Also download the KWCH App, where you can watch streaming video of our Always On Storm Team 12 Weather Channel, channel 12.2. There you can also send us your storm shots and receive weather alerts.
(KYTV)