Weather Channel fans, sound off!
01-21-02, 01:21 PM
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Weather Channel fans, sound off!
So many cool things about The Weather Channel. This is what I leave on in the background while making dinner and just hanging out. Here's my random list of things I love about it:
- the mellow tunes during the local broadcast. They had "Linus and Lucy" on around X-mas and that always got my attention.
- Paul Kocin's (the "severe weather expert") voice, this scratchy, raspy voice that you'd think would never belong to a TV person.
- Kristina Abernathy's wild bleached blonde-green hair. It looks really green when she wears her lime green outfit.
- Jim Cantore, who looks big and strong but is actually quite short.
- the Wx. Channel's own J. Lo.
- the way the babes wear skirts that just reach the bottom of my screen so I can only rarely see skin. Damn do they know how to tease!
- the mellow tunes during the local broadcast. They had "Linus and Lucy" on around X-mas and that always got my attention.
- Paul Kocin's (the "severe weather expert") voice, this scratchy, raspy voice that you'd think would never belong to a TV person.
- Kristina Abernathy's wild bleached blonde-green hair. It looks really green when she wears her lime green outfit.
- Jim Cantore, who looks big and strong but is actually quite short.
- the Wx. Channel's own J. Lo.
- the way the babes wear skirts that just reach the bottom of my screen so I can only rarely see skin. Damn do they know how to tease!
01-21-02, 08:22 PM
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I love it. I watch it at least once or twice a day, and more in the winter when a snowstorm's headed our way. Unfortunately, my school doesn't have it on its cable system because they would have had to pay $10,000 for a converter box or something in order to receive local forecasts. So, there's only one room on campus (in the Earth Science building) that has a satellite feed and gets the Wx Channel, so I have to go there to watch it while I'm at school. 
Of course, I'm biased because I'm a meteorology major.
Of course, I'm biased because I'm a meteorology major.
01-23-14, 06:14 PM
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I miss clicking on the Directv app on my DVR if I am bored during a movie or football game and not seeing the weather channel forecast.
http://www.thewrap.com/weather-chann...-full-page-ad/
The Weather Channel is demanding DirecTV pay an additional 1 cent per month per subscriber. DirecTV refused and has replaced the network with WeatherNation, something TWC calls “a cheap start-up that does weather forecasting on a three-hour taped loop, has no field coverage, no weather experts.”
“Consumers understand there are now a variety of other ways to get weather coverage, free of reality show clutter, and that The Weather Channel does not have an exclusive on weather coverage — the weather belongs to everyone,” DirecTV said in a statement.
“Consumers understand there are now a variety of other ways to get weather coverage, free of reality show clutter, and that The Weather Channel does not have an exclusive on weather coverage — the weather belongs to everyone,” DirecTV said in a statement.
01-23-14, 06:42 PM
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Re: Weather Channel fans, sound off!
I find this pissing contest fascinating.
I have to admit, there have been a numbers of times I've flipped to TWC, and they are doing some reality show.
Needless to say, as a DTV subscriber, I don't miss it one bit. If they had some hot Latin weather chicks doing the weather like Univision has, then I'd miss it.
I have to admit, there have been a numbers of times I've flipped to TWC, and they are doing some reality show.
Needless to say, as a DTV subscriber, I don't miss it one bit. If they had some hot Latin weather chicks doing the weather like Univision has, then I'd miss it.
01-23-14, 06:53 PM
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The Weather Channel is to weather what MTV is to music videos.
In an age of iPads and smartphones, no one gets their weather from TV anymore anyway.
In an age of iPads and smartphones, no one gets their weather from TV anymore anyway.
01-23-14, 06:54 PM
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TWC is a channel we shouldn't be paying for anyway. If I can get the same information on the Internet in 3 seconds, there shouldn't be a channel dedicated to it.
01-23-14, 07:14 PM
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Yeah, I haven't missed it either. I think TWC overplayed their hand here. It was one of my fav channels back in grad school when I sat around all day watching TV. Loved the revolving weathergirls. Now, not so much.
01-23-14, 08:41 PM
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Back in the late 80s my parents upgraded from one of those 30 foot antennas on a rotor to an 8 foot satellite dish. We then got hundreds of channels compared to 4. The weather channel being one of those hundreds. I thought it was really cool at the time and we would all watch it eating breakfast before going off to school/work. Now, I never watch it and don't really see much of a point to it.
04-08-14, 05:00 PM
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The Directv dispute is over and now I hope I can access the weather channel app again on my TV
http://www.engadget.com/2014/04/08/t...=rss_truncated
After dragging on for months, a standoff between DirecTV and The Weather Channel has ended and the winner is pretty clear. In mid-January TWC went dark on the satellite service and DirecTV started pushing the three people left who don't get their weather info from the internet to another channel, WeatherNation.
There hadn't been any movement since, but after news a few days ago that DirecTV signed a multiyear deal with WeatherNation, it appears The Weather Channel finally blinked.
A statement announcing the deal includes an apology to DirecTV and its customers from Weather Company CEO David Kenny, plus a promise to cut TWC's reality TV programming by half on weekdays (Deadliest Space Weather is a real show).
Other throw ins include the return of instant local weather and letting DirecTV subscribers stream The Weather Channel's video feed to other devices over the internet no matter where they are. Now that this long national nightmare is over (DirecTV is still duking it out with the Dodgers, PAC-12 and CSN Houston networks)
There hadn't been any movement since, but after news a few days ago that DirecTV signed a multiyear deal with WeatherNation, it appears The Weather Channel finally blinked.
A statement announcing the deal includes an apology to DirecTV and its customers from Weather Company CEO David Kenny, plus a promise to cut TWC's reality TV programming by half on weekdays (Deadliest Space Weather is a real show).
Other throw ins include the return of instant local weather and letting DirecTV subscribers stream The Weather Channel's video feed to other devices over the internet no matter where they are. Now that this long national nightmare is over (DirecTV is still duking it out with the Dodgers, PAC-12 and CSN Houston networks)
04-08-14, 06:04 PM
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I like that they're making them cut the reality-programming bullshit in favor of providing actual weather information.
04-09-14, 06:34 AM
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I was going to say that I sadly remember this thread from 12 years ago, but then realized it had been bumped a few months ago 
04-09-14, 08:23 AM
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I hate that the music is no longer mellow, I think I heard a lyric-less version of Thrift Shop a few months ago.
