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.

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