New Local Weather Channel

[redelephants]

Does anyone know where or when this newly promised weather channel geared toward local weather is? We were told that this would be a vast improvement over what we currently get from Dish/weather channel and would be coming this summer. Anything?? I am so tired of hearing "soon".

 

[Buzzdar]

Soon is the best answer your going to get.

 

[redelephants]

Soon is the best answer your going to get.

Well Charlie, wait..Chuck if you viewing this thread my local cable company offers this kind of service...uh..now. So get off your butt and make this happen before I "soon" shut off my Dish.

 

[Buzzdar]

Just watch ur local news

 

[redelephants]

Just watch ur local news

Chuck...... is that you???

 

[navychop]

None of us know. Anybody's guess.

This is something that local OTA stations will likely always do best.

 

[Dah-Henny]

My guess would be...NEVER.

 

[wmi]

Apparently, channel 213 has disappered into the Bermuda Triangle, never to be seen again.

 

[Scott Greczkowski]

I hear they are doing some testing on 118.7. I do believe we will see it by the end of the year.

 

[KAB]

Just watch ur local news

:up Or one of their local weather sub-channels.

 

[jerryez]

I hear they are doing some testing on 118.7. I do believe we will see it by the end of the year.

Wasn't the original announcement June or July of this year.

 

[Scott Greczkowski]

That was for the other short lived weather network.

 

[Ghpr13]

I hear they are doing some testing on 118.7. I do believe we will see it by the end of the year.

Which year?

 

[navychop]

That would be telling.

 

[levibluewa]

DISH advertised in their own publication in 2006? a local on the 8s that never happened. Directv was able to pull it off using zip codes. So, I guess "soon" is the best answer, maybe!

 

[Stargazer]

Or perhaps Dish Network hopes we will "forget". I was at somebody's house that has Time Warner cable and saw their local weather channel and I really liked it. The first screens showed watches and warnings in the area and then a radar zoomed into the area. The next screens zoomed the radar out each time to show a bigger area. Great for when people have to travel in which we had to do.

 

[Bobby]

I simply go to my PC and pull up wunderground.com, it gives me all I could possibly want....

 

[oldave]

I find weather.gov suffices.

Well, that, and when there's actually weather to be concerned about, StormLab.

 

[eacalhoun]

Veteran personality Bill Keneely out at TWC

Since this "The Weather Channel" (TWC) topic has resurfaced, I thought many of you may find it interesting that on-air personality/meteorologist Bill Keneely is officially out the door at TWC. He was one of the few remaining originals -- he started in March 1982, two months prior to TWC's launch. He was apparently allowed no kind of on-air farewell, though over the past few years he'd been relegated to late-night weekends. IMHO, TWC keeps going downhill faster and faster. I REALLY wish Dish would've given them the finger a few months back during their carriage dispute and permanently pulled the plug on 'em. I have my NOAA weather radio, local station sub-channels, and the internet to provide all the weather info I need.

Eric

 

[Hall]

Or perhaps Dish Network hopes we will "forget".

That's what I think Dish does... They tease their customers with something, claim it's "new" and better and remember "just like on cable", then let it fall by the wayside.

I was at somebody's house that has Time Warner cable and saw their local weather channel and I really liked it.

This is the aspect I ALWAYS point out as I suspect many people have never seen TWC on a cable system, so to them, the half-a** arrangements Dish offers seem "good" to them. I'm not knocking these folks by any means, but as you've discovered, going from TWC on cable to "weather" on satellite isn't pleasant.