The Weather Channel: The New MSNBC

How fitting that Keith Olbermann's barely legal live-in love is assigned to chase tornadoes. Life imitates art. Katy Tur lives in the eye of Keith Olbermann's tornado, uh, hurricane.

Page Six: Keith Olbermann gets paid by NBC -- and now so does his young, blond girlfriend. Katy Tur, who at 25 is half the age of the MSNBC uber-dork, has landed an on-air reporting job at the Weather Channel. Conveniently, both cable networks are owned by NBC Universal. Do we sense a little preferential treatment? Olbermann huffed to TV Newser: "Anybody who suggests so is misinformed, and/or sadly unaware that in this time when the industry is collapsing around us, nobody gets a job based on 'influence,' only talent."

Danny Shea Huff Post: Katy Tur, the 25-year-old girlfriend of MSNBC's Keith Olbermann, has joined The Weather Channel as a tornado-chaser.Tur will join Vortex2 host Mike Bettes as he conducts a five-week field experiment to "explore the origins, structure and evolution of tornadoes." Tur, who was a freelance reporter for New York's CW affiliate (WPIX) in 2008, will join the program as a Digital Journalist.On Friday, Bettes interviewed Tur about her feelings on the new assignment and coined a nickname for her — the "Tur-nado chaser." From their Q&A:

Mike: What did your family say when you told them you were going chasing?
Katy: "Awesome! Can we come?"

Tur's dad, Bob Tur, is a legendary Los Angeles helicopter reporter.

NBC acquired The Weather Channel with private equity firms Blackstone and Bain Capital last summer.

And fired a bunch of qualified people. The entire environmental unit and some long-time meteorologists. "The economic realities of recent months have created challenges for everyone in our business. In addition, when NBC Universal purchased the Weather Channel earlier this year, we expected that there would be cost synergies as part of a company reorganization. While it is always difficult to lose valued employees, we are doing our best to minimize the impact, and remain committed to providing the highest quality content that our viewers have come to expect from the Weather Channel."