i think The Weather Channel has been ruined by NBC Universal and Comcast taking over ownership, they have suffer from a bad case of "Network Decay" which has turn the channel into a joke. sure they still cover severe weather but at this point, i rather DIsh drop The Weather Channel and claim "Dish continually evaluates the content we can carry to provide the best value for our customer, as a result, due to lack of live weather coverage, this channel is no longer available and has been replaced with WeatherNation TV, also you can get your local weather from your local stations on channels 2-68" that way, Dish customers can get a weather network who can do live weather 24/7 and during the worst severe weather events, instead of going pre-taped from 7 to 4 AM CT and only preempts it when they feel that human life is really seriously in danger and over hype the storms.