Dish Network Adds Weather Channel App

[dfergie]

Multichannel is reporting:

The Weather Channel said Dish Network has added a new app from the network tailored for set-top boxes that provides viewers with "hyper-local" weather info and hourly forecasts by zip code.

The app, accessible from channel 213 on Dish's VIP-class set-top box models (subs who use the Hopper whole-home HD-DVR can call it up by pressing the blue button on their remote controls), also provides a seven-day forecast and positions The Weather Channel feed in the upper right corner of the TV screen.


multichannel.com

 

[Deadlocked]

Been up for around a month now


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[dfergie]

I never check apps, barely have time to watch tv ...

 

[Bobby]

Yep, been there for a while!

 

[Hall]

that provides viewers with "hyper-local" weather info

I'll try and remember to check this later but in the meantime, can anyone describe this "hyper-local" part ? In the past, TWC/Dish considered my local weather to go as far west as Chicago, Detroit to the north, and so on !

 

[WXIK K-96]

Now if Dish could just add WeatherNation or Accuweather so we would have a real weather network...

 

[ChadT41]

What's funny about that is dish uses accuweather as their primary source for weather outages on the phone support.

 

[DishSubLA]

Now if Dish could just add WeatherNation or Accuweather so we would have a real weather network...

and real all-news channels as CNN keep airing more non-new shows like Anthony Bourdaine and now a new Mike Rowe "Dirty Jobs" clone show, and more. All the news channels seem to do this. It is getting out of hand.

 

[levibluewa]

http://www.satelliteguys.us/xen/threads/re-213-weati.341052/#post-3528679

Still NO change. Perhaps DISH should contact Directv and find out how they get it right!

 

[Hall]

Been up for around a month now

I finally checked this yesterday and can't see any difference from what I'd seen months ago if not almost a year ago.

 

[levibluewa]

I finally checked this yesterday and can't see any difference from what I'd seen months ago if not almost a year ago.

Hall, at least a year ago you could access local weather...it still took 2 days to get the app to load, but it did eventually. Not now. Nothing. Zippo. I guess that's called progress!

 

[levibluewa]

Hall, at least a year ago you could access local weather...it still took 2 days to get the app to load, but it did eventually. Not now. Nothing. Zippo. I guess that's called progress!

http://www.satelliteguys.us/xen/threads/re-213-weati.341052/

Still exactly the same...

 

[Hall]

The app loads fine here. Just takes a few seconds...

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