DISH and The Weather Channel Sign Multi-Year Renewal

[Scott Greczkowski]

DISH and The Weather Channel Sign Multi-Year Renewal

Release Date:Tuesday, April 21, 2015 1:30 pm MDT
Terms: Programming
Dateline City: ENGLEWOOD, Colo. & ATLANTA

ENGLEWOOD, Colo. & ATLANTA--(BUSINESS WIRE)--DISH Network L.L.C. and The Weather Channel have agreed to terms for a multi-year contract renewal that continues to provide DISH customers with access to The Weather Channel and its interactive app on Hopper® Whole-Home HD DVR and other select set-top boxes. The agreement includes over-the-top (OTT) streaming rights for live and Video-On-Demand content.

“DISH and The Weather Channel have been partners for two decades and we are pleased to continue and expand that relationship to Sling TV,” said Warren Schlichting, DISH senior vice president of programming.

"We are happy to extend our long relationship with DISH, and look forward to continuing to innovate together to provide the best possible service to their subscribers," said David Kenny, Chairman and CEO of The Weather Company.

The Weather Channel will be launched on Sling TV by July. Pricing and packaging information will be announced when the channel launches.

About The Weather Channel (@weatherchannel)

Through The Weather Channel (weather.com) and Weather Underground (wunderground.com) brands, The Weather Company provides millions of people every day with the world's best weather forecasts, content and data, connecting with them through television, online, mobile and tablet screens, as well as third-party publishing partners via API. Through WSI, the company delivers superior professional weather services for the media, aviation and energy sectors. The Weather Company is owned by a consortium made up of NBC Universal and the private equity firms The Blackstone Group and Bain Capital. For more information, visit www.theweathercompany.com.

 

[Hall]

Has Weather Nation been turned off already ?

 

[cpdretired]

Still on.

 

[Bobby]

Anything to keep bluegras happy!

 

[Tampa8]

Better to have loved and lost WeatherNation than to have never loved it at all......

(Gee I wonder what got the deal done, the complete coincidence of WeatherNation arriving?)

 

[Hall]

Better to have loved and lost WeatherNation than to have never loved it at all......

(Gee I wonder what got the deal done, the complete coincidence of WeatherNation arriving?)

Should sound familiar from the last time Dish and TWC's contract was up for renewal....

 

[goaliebob99]

Sounds like the weather channel blinked on this one. Good news for Dish subs at least they gained a real weather channel out of the deal.

 

[GaryPen]

They should change the name of WeatherNation to LeverageNation.

 

[bluegras]

i hope we can keep weathernation i like the app alot it give us a better choice for our weather reports now i wonder if accuweather hd will be next being added.

 

[navychop]

I wondered why that plague of locusts descended upon us.

 

[Scott Greczkowski]

I think WeatherNation will stick around as they spent a long time working on the WN app.

 

[bluegras]

I think WeatherNation will stick around as they spent a long time working on the WN app.

i hope it does scott i love watching weathernation on my roku.now i am glad we have it on dish network

 

[jerryez]

I get Weather Nation on a OTA sub channel of NBC. I enjoy it occasionally. Write your local networks and ask that they add WN instead of their sh!tty local radar or whatever they have.

 

[Rolling Joe]

I have an AccuWeather with local inserts on the sub of the CW channel. I finally have all three of the top two and one half!

 

[jrh1985]

I think WeatherNation will stick around as they spent a long time working on the WN app.

Yeah, It's not a carbon copy of the TWC Weather App, like it was 5 years ago.
I wish/hope DISH will confirm somehow that WN is here to stay.

 

[Hall]

I think WeatherNation will stick around as they spent a long time working on the WN app.

Who does that development, Echostar people, WN people, or probably a combination, I'd think ?

 

[joyce.davis.391]

Probably both since we got weather nation noe

 

[Yespage]

*bleep*

 

[ChadT41]

dangit...

 

[dwarren2]

Tonight is a perfect example of why we still need TWC. With tornadoes on the ground in OK, TWC is showing live coverage. WN is showing the loop of maps and weather by area.