Is this REALLY necessary?

Why do TV stations have to break into programming, when it is not necessary to do so?

Christine the Curmudgeon wasn’t feeling well this afternoon, and was trying to watch the CBS soaps.  However, WBZ kept cutting in with weather reports about some thunderstorms and flash flooding that were due to come to the area.

I can see reporting this, but in the past, they’d do a split-screen thing for weather info.  They’d keep the show playing on one side, and show the weather radar on the other, with a ticker running underneath.  But not today!  I had to miss a good deal of  “As The World Turns” due to this, including the last couple of segments at the end, AND the previews for tomorrow.  When the weather cut-in was done, it went to a commercial for some sort of foods that burn fat, then it went to Dr. Phil.

I know I can watch the complete episode online, but this is still very annoying.