Jim Frysinger asks:
> Any word yet on which TV network won the broadcast contract?
I haven't heard anything about it, but I don't pay much attention
to olympic-related events, so it may have been decided.
Jim
> Jim Elwell wrote:
> >
> > I sent a "blind copy" of this to the USMA, without
> thinking that
> > there was not enough context for you to figure out
> who it was to.
> >
> > The letter was to KSL-TV, the local news station that will be
> > handling weather broadcasting for the Olympics in SLC next
> > February. Nick Malyarov (also a Utah resident)
> suggested this,
> > and presumably is sending one also.
> >
> > Jim Elwell
> >
> > *******************************
> >
> > Sir/Madam:
> >
> > When the 2002 Olympic come to Salt Lake City in a few months,
> > there will be tens of thousands of people from other
> countries
> > visiting here.
> >
> > Since the US is the ONLY country left in world that uses
> > non-metric units, very few of those tens of
> thousands will have
> > any idea what "40 degrees Fahrenheit" is, or what "inches of
> > snow" means, or whether "10 mph wind speed" is fast or slow.
> >
> > Please consider putting metric equivalents into your
> forecasts
> > (TV, web, radio), as a courtesy to these thousands
> of visitors.
> > It will be a tremendous help to them, and it will help our
> > citizens become more familiar with the measurement
> language the
> > rest of the world uses, and which the US will eventually use.
> >
> > Thank you.
> >
> > Jim Elwell
> > President
> > QSI Corporation
> > SLC, Utah
>
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> James R. Frysinger, CAMS http://www.metricmethods.com/
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