Channel Unrequest - The Weather Channel

[TheKrell]

It may have been rough around the edges, but I liked the channel Dish had for ten seconds that replaced TWC.

I agree. I think it was called Weathercast, and IIRC it was up for two or three days.

 

[dare2be]

I don't watch it either, but do appreciate it occasionally during the summer/fall for hurricane coverage here in FL.

 

[dfergie]

Waiting for them to move Wrestling on this channel like they did to Syfy at least the TWC would fit ...

 

[jerryez]

I quit watching the Weather Channel many years ago. I get my weather instantly from the internet. Try thses links.

http://www.intellicast.com/Local/Weather.aspx?location=USFL0399

http://www.intellicast.com/National/Radar/Current.aspx?region=msy&animate=true
or
http://forecast.weather.gov/MapClic...la&state=FL&site=MOB&lat=30.4447&lon=-87.1895


Of course you will have to customize them for your locale. NBC, get TWC back to the weather. As you can see, nobody watches it.
OR Dish should just add their weather channel back as an additional channel to compete with TWC.

 

[levibluewa]

I would at least like to see the local-on-the-8s 24/7 feeds for your region that they "promised" a couple years ago during the channel dispute. That and WeatherNation.

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WeatherNation is a bigger joke than TWC. They show Seattle 20 miles N of Portland & recently missed the "low" temp by 20F. Too bad WeatherUnderground doesn't have a tv channel.

 

[Mr Tony]

Someone's been watching a little too much Weather Channel!

nah I turned it on yesterday and right away they were talking about Orko within 2 minutes

 

[Mr Tony]

WeatherNation is a bigger joke than TWC.

Here in Minneapolis they do a good job....but then WeatherNation is mainly based in Minneapolis

 

[eacalhoun]

WeatherNation is a bigger joke than TWC. They show Seattle 20 miles N of Portland & recently missed the "low" temp by 20F. Too bad WeatherUnderground doesn't have a tv channel.

FYI, WeatherUnderground was bought by the Weather Channel last summer, I think. So, I doubt the "WxUG" channel would be any better.

 

[Darrell S]

It could be worse... they could start some reality programming on the weather channel !

You mean like Reef Wranglers, a show about hillbillys dumping crap off the Gulf Coast Of Alabama to create artificial reefs.

 

[tedb3rd]

Agreed.. And if Dish wanted to put DirectTV out of business, they would go an extra step and offer their commercial/business packages to 'regular' customers.

 

[ScottChez]

Dont they still have the local weather channel weather scan channel in some test markets in Oklahoma? I think it they had three markets going. It was from that weather nation counter offer. Now that we each have out own spot beams for my prime time it would be so easy to have a SD regional weather with live radar 24x7. I agree the weather channel we have today is a joke.

 

[mike123abc]

I have restaurants, and the weather channel is very popular in the morning. ESPN is popular the rest of the day.

 

[Rangers484]

I don't watch TWC ever but I have started using the app on my Hopper. Keep the app, dump the channel.

 

[renegade734]

I don't want MSNBC or CNBC.

Or siffy, for that matter. And anything else they can't spell correctly.

 

[johnissoevil]

Waiting for them to move Wrestling on this channel like they did to Syfy at least the TWC would fit ...

Maybe back in 1991-92 when Texas Tornado, Earthquake, and Typhoon were on the WWE roster.

 

[Scherrman]

I never understood why anyone liked the weather channel ever. We all have our own local stations that give us weather, a lot have 24/7 weather on their OTA multi-channel. On top of that you can acces weather anytime you want with the internet or data plan. I have a couple weather apps on my phone that I use all the time. If you want great weather coverage you can even follow certain weather people on twitter for instant updates all over the world. With information at our fingertips why wait for it on a weather channel?

 

[Teehar]

Maybe back in 1991-92 when Texas Tornado, Earthquake, and Typhoon were on the WWE roster.

Well Vince McMahon should try and buy TWC,instead of starting a network from scratch.If AL Roker is part of the deal he could don the tights as well.

 

[dfergie]

That's whats messed up, USA was historically the place to go for WWF ...

 

[Scherrman]

Is USA still a popular channel? Can't remember the last time I watched it. I remember that was always a pretty good one back when I was a kid and we had cable.

 

[Teehar]

Is USA still a popular channel? Can't remember the last time I watched it. I remember that was always a pretty good one back when I was a kid and we had cable.

I rarely watch USA,once in a blue moon for WWE Raw.That said,they are still one of the top rated cable networks.Mostly on re-runs of CBS shows.