I have the honor of having been one of the folks charged with changing the color of the Weather Beacon to reflect the current forecast. In the 1990s when I worked in Master Control at KFYR-TV, the switch box for the Beacon was right behind where I sat at the control board. There were six clunky push buttons on the box, one for each permutation: red, flashing red, white, flashing white, green, and flashing green. The program log for KFYR-TV had occasional reminders throughout the day/night to check the Beacon.
Later on I heard that the control reverted to KFYR radio, and I think there was a span in there where nobody was really controlling it. I think each station thought the other was doing it! That would have been around the time that the radio stations’ headquarters moved out of the Meyer buildings.
I also got to help Save the Beacon back in the 90’s too, as KFYR’s webmaster, but that’s a story for another time.