Weather Channel Weather Scan

[nrholland]

I notice that certain areas of the country have Weather Channel's Weatherscan on their Dish Service, such as Oklahoma City.

Does Dish intend to put this on spot beams for all markets in the country? It'd be nice, especially for those who can't pick up subchannels on their receivers.

[tedb3rd]

Yes. Dish and Weather Channel are working on that. They promise to have it available by Spring 2010. (yes, 2010)

[gpollock87]

Yes. Dish and Weather Channel are working on that. They promise to have it available by Spring 2010. (yes, 2010)

lmao. i was smh for a moment there

[levibluewa]

and Local on the 8s by late 2006 ... that worked out well

[dan188]

and Local on the 8s by late 2006 ... that worked out well

yup

[ScottChez]

Any screen shots of what it looks like? Is it any good? Does it have moving Radar loops so you can what direction the storm is going?


I am thinking of switching to Dish and this information would help me decide.

I found this info posted by Scott G in an other thread by doing a search.

QUESTION: why dont they mapped it down and put it next to the Main Weather channel so people can find it. Now that they have ALL locals on there own Spot beam for The Hopper Prime time any time why dont they do this for All Cities? Sounds like they have been up for half year a year. Is the feed back not very good on them?

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Dish Network & The Weather Channel launched a new regional weather
channel offering into each the following local markets:

Salt Lake City, Tucson (Sierra Vista), Phoenix (Prescott) and Oklahoma City.

These new channels will provide customers with weather updates specific to
their area.

Call Letters WSCAN
Affiliation IND
Channel # 8333
Local Channel # 10
Orbital Slot 119
Packaging: Phoenix (Prescott) DMA

Call Letters WSCAN
Affiliation IND
Channel # 8960
Local Channel # 9
Orbital Slot 119
Packaging: Tucson (Sierra Vista) DMA

Call Letters WSCAN
Affiliation IND
Channel # 8544
Local Channel # 10
Orbital Slot 110
Packaging Salt Lake City DMA

Call Letters WSCAN
Affiliation IND
Channel #8898
Local Channel #10
Orbital Slot 110
Packaging: Oklahoma City DMA

[ScottChez]

No reply. Are these channels even still out there? Did Dish cancel the beta tests?

[3HaloODST]

I don't get it why this is so hard for Dish... All they have to do is throw it on the spotbeams, not like it's taking up precious CONUS bandwidth... Also since the scans are relatively static, they would use hardly any bandwidth in the first place.

[ScottChez]

Agree, now that they have Prime Time Anytime with the new Hopper just about EVERY DMA has either its own Spot Beam it is shared with a nearby DMA city.

This would be so easy to setup. I could do it on my home PC using a Looping HTML file with the PCs Video Out connected to a DIsh IN connector at the up link center.

All I want is looping Radar (with storm tracks), Temp, Sat, and Forecast. Stuff you can get off the web.

I already made a sample for my TV using 4 HTML files that update every 30 seconds calling each other.


Just an other suggestion, hope the D.I.R.T DIRT team reads these and puts them in the Dish suggestion box.

[sethwell]

Agree, now that they have Prime Time Anytime with the new Hopper just about EVERY DMA has either its own Spot Beam it is shared with a nearby DMA city.

This would be so easy to setup. I could do it on my home PC using a Looping HTML file with the PCs Video Out connected to a DIsh IN connector at the up link center.

All I want is looping Radar (with storm tracks), Temp, Sat, and Forecast. Stuff you can get off the web.

I already made a sample for my TV using 4 HTML files that update every 30 seconds calling each other.

Just an other suggestion, hope the D.I.R.T DIRT team reads these and puts them in the Dish suggestion box.

I keep an old computer connected to my tv already. Just swap tv inputs and grab the wireless mouse next to my remote and I can pull up weather sites or dishonline or whatnot. Not much more than switching a channel.

Plus by going to my local stations website, I get more accurate forecasting than the weather tv show channel, do they even broadcast weather anymore? Always some scripted disaster show on most of the time.

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