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ABOUT WBYD-TV

Backyard TV (WBYD-TV) allows members of the Backyard Community to watch and participate in live weather shows and deliver high-definition broadcast quality weather information to the WeatherBug Backyard Community. During Severe Weather, members will be able to tune in here to receive the latest weather information from various Backyard Community members and send in storm reports on our comment wall.

Meet the Backyard TV Weather Team:

Nathan Parker, Administrative Director and General Manager

Johnathan Williamson, Executive Producer, WBYD-TV Chief Meteorologist*, and Hurricane Expert

Jaosn McClintock, Severe Weather Expert

Sarah Ash, Forecaster, Hurricane Specialist

Ben Kouchnerkavich, Senior Meteorologist*

Trevor Birchett, Meteorologist*
Cameron Johnson, Forecaster

*Disclaimer: Backyard TV is a feature of the WeatherBug Backyard Community and is in no way affiliated with the products, services, and staff of WeatherBug and/or Earth Networks. Members seen on the Backyard TV live stream, unless specified as an employee of WeatherBug and/or Earth Networks, are volunteer members of the WeatherBug Backyard Community only and do not represent WeatherBug and/or Earth Networks in any form or fashion. For weather coverage from WeatherBug’s own team of meteorologists, please visit Weather.WeatherBug.com. The coverage information displayed here is also free from any form of warranty as to the accuracy of the data and is presented on an “as is” basis.

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Comment by Johnathan Williamson on April 12, 2012 at 3:02pm

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Comment by Nathan Parker on March 19, 2012 at 11:12pm: Updates on Backyard TV: We are working with Kory to get the custom SevereStudios player, and we should have it up soon. In the meantime, we have a USTREAM player up on this site so users can tune in to our live streams now. Our producer is also getting accustomed to our equipment and ironing out the kinks before we really go with this. :-)

Once we have Kory's SevereStudios-based player in place, we will swap out the USTREAM player with his since it will be higher quality and more reliable. However, we will include the USTREAM player on a separate page (easily accessible), so that users browsing our site on non-Silverlight based machines (like mobile devices) can still tune to our live stream by accessing the USTREAM page. Users can also download the USTREAM mobile app onto their devices and access our live stream on the go that way. We will be simultaneously broadcasting all shows to both streams once in place so we can have the best of both worlds: highest quality streams for desktop users and fully accessible streams for mobile users. We'll also be recording all our shows and featuring our favorites as archives on the Backyard Video Gallery.

For the next little bit, you'll mostly be hearing from Johnathan Williamson on air, and mostly for severe weather events. We will have a set of guidelines, a signup/audition form, and a rundown of scheduled live shows coming soon. We're also working on brand new graphics (some of which you've had a sampling of so far, but more's on the way!) and have some other new surprises along the way. Stay tuned for more!