That is the only thing I miss is the Red Button Active weather and hope DirecTV does another one with Weather Nation would be great!!
The Weather Channel In Open Letter To DirecTV: You Really Oughta Waive Fees For Your Customers Who W
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That is the only thing I miss is the Red Button Active weather and hope DirecTV does another one with Weather Nation would be great!!
In the little over a week since TWC was taken off the air, I only had one person call and complain that he doesn't have TWC. So it's safe to say DTV customers don't care it's missing.
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I know that I really, really miss The Weather Channel. When severe weather hits my area and knocks out my satellite service, the first place I turn is the Signal Acquisition screen on The Weather Channel. When the signal returns, I know the severe weather has passed. Thank you, Weather Channel!
What's crazy is I really don't think directv gave much effort at all keeping it. Normally during a dispute or prior to it we techs are given the heads up that it could possibly lose a channel for a short/long length of time but this time we was only told of the dispute maybe 72 hours prior to it actually being dropped. I only learned of it sooner due to the forums! I personally wouldn't mind keeping it off the air, nothing worth watching and of I need the weather channel during the middle of a storm that's severe enough to warrant me watching it has more than likely already knocked out my signal so I'm relying on the iPad or iPhone to get updated anyways
If their viewership went down 19%, then drop their take 19%. If it goes back up, take that into account on the next contract. Their "We can't lose" attitude, to pay more regardless of the eyeball count, is ludicrous.
I called to thank them for dropping TWC and urged them to never bring it back.
I used to watch the weather channel a long time ago when they had the weather on it. I quit even going there, since every time I did there was a show on that wasn't the weather. If I hadn't seen the threads about it being taken off, I would never have known about it. Thank you D for getting rid of a channel I never watched.
TWC died to me as a need once I started getting phones with good weather apps.
I am glad you said that, since I was going to put that in my post also. I look at my phone constantly for weather, so I don't need the weather channel unless there is some severe weather going on.
All of us can name companies, or media outlets, that followed some fad or trend and drove their core audience away. I actually feel a little bad for TWC employees who aren't responsible for this wreck of a network someone has made. You know there are dedicated folks at TWC (METS included) who can't possibly think that airing reruns (or first runs) of a towing service are superior to what they used to do. TWC is just simply another sad media outlet gutted by bad management and poor decisions. It cast itself, willingly, into being the "has been" network for what they do, and handed to Weather Nation (fun to watch Mets pushing their own buttons like TWC Mets did in mid 80's) and Accuweather on a silver platter the ability to be know as a true weather network.
Open Letter to TWC: your public relations moves (fear mongering with keeptheweatherchannel) and tricks (going all weather for days up to Direct's change, then returning to reality crap) show your true colors. Just keep doing what you are doing, and DISH will have even better reason in 3 years to cut you loose if they have kept up with the dialogue here, and even TWC's own Facebook page...
Open Letter to TWC: your public relations moves (fear mongering with keeptheweatherchannel) and tricks (going all weather for days up to Direct's change, then returning to reality crap) show your true colors. Just keep doing what you are doing, and DISH will have even better reason in 3 years to cut you loose if they have kept up with the dialogue here, and even TWC's own Facebook page...
http://www.keeptheweatherchannel.com/waive-the-fee.php
Keep in mind, of course that anything not in agreement will likely never be read or posted.
Keep in mind, of course that anything not in agreement will likely never be read or posted.
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CUSTOMER COMPLAINTS
SENT TO DIRECTV
They have macros to do that I'd assume? Gotta keep the interns there busy I guess...
CUSTOMER COMPLAINTS
SENT TO DIRECTV
They have macros to do that I'd assume? Gotta keep the interns there busy I guess...
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