WFTV Orlando

Fox, Tribune, Cox and Post-Newsweek all have media outlets in busy, tourist-enlivened Orlando, Fla., where the sensational Casey Anthony trial offered opportunity for a hotbed of related apps, streaming video and social media experimentation.

Following the success of WFTV’s mock weather set at the Orlando Science Center, the set maker, FX Design Group, is marketing the idea of creating weather sets for museums to other stations, making the pitch that they are a chance not only to do good, but to make money. This is the second of six articles that will appear this week and that collectively constitute a TVNewsCheck Special Report on Severe Weather News. Below is the first story in the series.