Weather wars, sometimes called TV radar wars or Doppler wars, are a kind of sensationalist journalism primarily concerning weather news. The "war" is typified by competing local TV news stations engaging in technological one-upmanship to increase viewership.

The conflict has included attack ads, notably when WTWO, a television station in Terre Haute, Indiana, attacked WTHI-TV's coverage by name by claiming that WTHI's Doppler radar and staff were inferior to WTWO's. The conflict was later satirized by The Daily Show.

See also

• Collective hysteria
• Damsel in distress syndrome
• Fad or trend, this article as a type of
• Herd behavior
• Hysteria
• Infotainment, this article depicts a type of
• Media circus
• Moral panic

References

• Pittsburgh Tribune - Weather wars brewing again
• Cincinnati Enquirer - TV weather wars rain radar hyperbole
• The Daily Times - Neal Zoren: Channel 3 closing the gap in the battle for TV ratings
• The Toledo Blade - Channel 36 finds humor in local TV's 'radar wars'
• WSI In the News - Weather Tech: Sizing Up the Latest Goodies
• Pioneer Press - KSTP on top with its big, bad weather radar
• Steve Minutillo - Is this the final blow in the Doppler wars?
• WCBSTV - Explaining Doppler 2 Million: CBS 2's Enters A New Era In Weather Coverage
• 13ABC.com - 13ABC Doppler 13,000
• WHOTV - First Alert Mega Doppler Radar
• Kansas City Star - That LIVE POWER DOPPLER looks more like a snow job
• KFOR - About our 4 Warn South Doppler Dual Doppler
• U.S. Federal Communications Commission, FCC: What types of communications are specifically prohibited?
• KWTV - Gary England "Calm During The Storm"