With severe weather already impacting the U.S. as a tropical storm impacts the Southeast and extreme temperatures impacted much of the West Coast of the nation, how important is it for a local television station to invest in weather?

That's just one question we asked Wes Wyatt, who will become the Chief Meteorologist at Gray Television-owned FOX affiliate WBRC-6 in Birmingham come July 26.

What else does Wes have to say about the role of weather at a broadcast TV station? Listen to this fresh RBR+TVBR InFOCUS Podcast, presented by dot.FM, to learn more!