Wake Up With Al is a morning weather program on The Weather Channel

The Weather Channel

The Weather Channel is a US cable and satellite television network since May 2, 1982, that broadcasts weather forecasts and weather-related news, along with entertainment programming related to weather 24 hours a day...

. It premiered on Monday, July 20, 2009. It is also currently the newest live show on The Weather Channel

The Weather Channel

The Weather Channel is a US cable and satellite television network since May 2, 1982, that broadcasts weather forecasts and weather-related news, along with entertainment programming related to weather 24 hours a day...

.

Program history

The program is co-hosted by Today weather anchor Al Roker

Al Roker

Albert Lincoln "Al" Roker, Jr. is an American television meteorologist as well as an actor and book author. He is best known as being the weather anchor on NBC's Today. On Monday, July 20, 2009, he began co-hosting his new morning show, Wake Up with Al, on The Weather Channel, which airs weekdays...

 and The Weather Channel meteorologist Stephanie Abrams

Stephanie Abrams

Stephanie Abrams is an American on-camera meteorologist for The Weather Channel, a 24-hour American cable television weather program. She has also done live reporting for the 2010 Winter Olympics at Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.-Early life:...

. Roker hosts from the Today Show studio in New York City

New York City

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 with a large touchscreen for presenting weather maps. Abrams hosts from The Weather Channel's studios in Atlanta, Georgia

Georgia (U.S. state)

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. MSNBC

MSNBC

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 anchor Lynn Berry

Lynn Berry

Lynn Berry was the editor-in-chief of The Moscow Times, the leading English-language daily in Russia, until June 2006. She was replaced by former deputy editor Andrew McChesney...

 provides news headlines for Wake Up with Al from MSNBC world headquarters in Manhattan. In addition to weather forecasts, a celebrity interview usually is aired during the program, in a manner similar to Today.

Wake Up With Al runs from 6-7 a.m. Eastern time. A reprise broadcast airs from 10-11 a.m. containing live weather updates from Stephanie Abrams mixed with recorded segments from the original broadcast. In rare instances however, the initial 6 a.m. broadcast may be extended to two hours from 5-7 a.m. ET (effectively pushing back the start time of lead-in First Outlook

First Outlook

First Outlook is a morning weather program produced by The Weather Channel, an American television channel. The program regularly airs from 4-6 a.m...

by one hour), and the 10 a.m. ET rebroadcast may be replaced or preempted with an entirely live telecast in the event an ongoing significant weather event occurs (e.g., severe weather outbreak, winter storm, hurricane threatening the United States). Weather Channel fans have criticized the show for focusing more on entertainment than weather.

Segments

• Coast to Coast
• Weather Now
• Weather in the News
• Bus Stop Forecast
• msnbc
  MSNBC
  MSNBC is a cable news channel based in the United States available in the US, Germany , South Africa, the Middle East and Canada...
  
   News Headlines
• CNBC
  CNBC
  CNBC is a satellite and cable television business news channel in the U.S., owned and operated by NBCUniversal. The network and its international spinoffs cover business headlines and provide live coverage of financial markets. The combined reach of CNBC and its siblings is 390 million viewers...
  
   Business Barometer
• Celebrity Forecast

Schedule

Weekdays

• 06:00am–07:00am ET
  Eastern Time Zone
  The Eastern Time Zone of the United States and Canada is a time zone that falls mostly along the east coast of North America. Its UTC time offset is −5 hrs during standard time and −4 hrs during daylight saving time...
  
  /PT
  Pacific Time Zone
  The Pacific Time Zone observes standard time by subtracting eight hours from Coordinated Universal Time . The clock time in this zone is based on the mean solar time of the 120th meridian west of the Greenwich Observatory. During daylight saving time, its time offset is UTC-7.In the United States...
  
   with Al Roker & Stephanie Abrams
• 10:00am-11:00am ET
  Eastern Time Zone
  The Eastern Time Zone of the United States and Canada is a time zone that falls mostly along the east coast of North America. Its UTC time offset is −5 hrs during standard time and −4 hrs during daylight saving time...
  
  /PT
  Pacific Time Zone
  The Pacific Time Zone observes standard time by subtracting eight hours from Coordinated Universal Time . The clock time in this zone is based on the mean solar time of the 120th meridian west of the Greenwich Observatory. During daylight saving time, its time offset is UTC-7.In the United States...
  
  with Al Roker & Stephanie Abrams (re-run)