By all accounts, The Weather Channel is worth $5 billion or more, and likely bidders CBS, NBC Universal, Time Warner, Comcast, and News Corp. are lining up for the chance to be the new owner of Landmark Communications’ channel.

It’s also the place where Bob Stokes would ask fellow co-anchor Hillary Andrews, “Will you lick my swizzle stick?,” according to arbitration documents obtained by, who else, The Smoking Gun. As the docs show, Andrews won her sexual harassment arbitration case against TWC and Stokes, and now the channel is trying to keep everything under wraps.

Andrews won’t have anything to do with that, claiming network brass “turned a blind eye to the harassment because her co-anchor, Bob Stokes, was popular with viewers and scored high ratings.” So she’s trying to put the documents in the public record, filing them as part of a lawsuit against Stokes in Georgia state court.

Which is probably for the betterment of society: Stokes is a creep.

Court records show that Andrews was paired with Stokes after her September 2003 hiring, and that she replaced a female “on-camera meteorologist” who had worked with Stokes for three years. According to Andrews’s lawsuit against Stokes, the prior anchor was abused daily by him and “routinely hid in the women’s dressing room in between shifts to avoid contact with him.” The woman, Andrews alleged, was forced out of TWC after repeatedly complaining to management about Stokes’s harassment. Andrews claims that “history quickly repeated itself” when Stokes began harassing her, though his behavior was “worse for [her] than for her predecessors because Stokes was sexually attracted to her and romantically obsessed with her.” Stokes, she claimed, made crude sexual remarks to her, leered at her chest, and followed her into the women’s dressing room. He also allegedly questioned her “over and over again, non-stop” about her sex life, and once noted, “It tortures me when you wear those heels and skirt.” When she rebuffed his advances, Andrews charged, Stokes’s “hostility and volatility became a constant” and he sought to “sabotage” her on-air performance and even resorted to insulting her during live shows. Though initially “loath to complain” about Stokes for fear of “career suicide,” Andrews eventually reported his behavior to TWC officials and sought a reassignment with a new co-anchor. Instead, Andrews alleged, she was relegated to a series of undesirable assignments, including “the overnight shift–the same assignment [TWC] had given Ms. Andrews’s predecessor after she complained about Stokes.” Andrews filed her arbitration claim shortly before her three-year contract expired in August 2006.