When Healthy Competition Becomes Unhealthy

In TV news, there's nothing like a little healthy competition. The few stations in each viewing area, or market, are always going to compete over every newscast, whether it's the morning show, the noon show, the 5, the 6, the 10, or the 11. Yeah. That's a lot of competition. It's all a matter of: Who had the better stories? Who lead with the better story? Who has the better graphics? And so on and so forth.

But in New York City, the biggest market in the country, two stations are competing over...wait for it...the weather!

Yes, the weather. While that might seem silly, it actually makes perfect sense. After all, most viewers tune into the news specifically for the weather and tune out immediately after.

Here's a closer look at the new mobile weather coverage over which WCBS-2 and WABC-7 are battling.

And while we're at it, a look at Channel 7's "exclusive" Road Cam. (To avoid bias, I tried finding a video of Channel 2's Mobile 2, but had some difficulty. Sorry!)