Dish Network drops The Weather Channel for own proprietary Weather Cast
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05-20-10 06:40 PM | Updated: 05-20-10 06:40 PM
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Satellite TV provider Dish Network says it will drop The Weather
Channel from its lineup when their contract expires at at midnight in
favor of its own, proprietary weather station called Weather Cast.
The network describes Weather Cast as "a new 24-hour weather service
featuring live round-the-clock weather reporting, interactive
forecasting, and real-time national storm tracking."
It claims it is starting the network as a reaction against The Weather
Channel's move "away from weather reporting to a mix of movies and
other entertainment-focused programming."
"The Weather Channel has been serving the American public for more
than 28 years and viewers trust and rely on it as their weather
authority," Weather Channel spokesman Shirley Powell said in a
statement. "Despite negotiations over the past several months, DISH
has chosen to be the first distributor to drop The Weather Channel
rather than pay the standard industry rates others in the industry
have already agreed to pay. We are disappointed with their decision
and hopeful that we can still reach an agreement with DISH Network and
bring this highly valued network back to its customers. In the
meantime, we are urging our viewers to contact Direct TV or their
local cable or telco provider to receive The Weather Channel."
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/05/20/dish-network-dropping-wea_n_584157.html#comments
Kimba W Lion
>Satellite TV provider Dish Network says it will drop The Weather
>Channel from its lineup when their contract expires at at midnight in
>favor of its own, proprietary weather station called Weather Cast.
Good.
>It claims it is starting the network as a reaction against The Weather
>Channel's move "away from weather reporting to a mix of movies and
>other entertainment-focused programming."
Exactly right. TWC has become total crap since NBC bought it.
>"The Weather Channel has been serving the American public for more
>than 28 years and viewers trust and rely on it as their weather
>authority," Weather Channel spokesman Shirley Powell said in a
>statement. "Despite negotiations over the past several months, DISH
>has chosen to be the first distributor to drop The Weather Channel
>rather than pay the standard industry rates others in the industry
>have already agreed to pay
Oh, bullshit. TWC is crap and I won't miss it.
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Scott Greczkowski
Actually they didn't drop it...
It appears they came to an agreement late last night.
Both DISH and TWC have taken down their websites explain the takedown of
the channel.
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Ubiquitous
>Satellite TV provider Dish Network says it will drop The Weather
>Channel from its lineup when their contract expires at at midnight in
>favor of its own, proprietary weather station called Weather Cast.
>
>The network describes Weather Cast as "a new 24-hour weather service
>featuring live round-the-clock weather reporting, interactive
>forecasting, and real-time national storm tracking."
You mean like what the Weather Channel used to do?
aemeijers
Shrug. The TV channel has been useless to me anyway, since I switched
from Cable to Dish when I moved. No local forecasts. Doubt I have
watched it in the last year. I do use the web site for the extended
local hourly forecasts, to plan my lawn mowing sessions. I can get
better radar from Intellicast, among others.
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s.h.
<norepliesbyem...@norepliesbyemail.invalid> wrote:
According to the New York Times, which ran an article about it, Time
Warner Cable is still in negotiations with The Weather Channel too and
has been since December.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/22/business/media/22weather.html?ref=television
s.h.
So the Weather Channel won the negotiations and will continue doing
Flick and a Forecast and when they feel like it, they'll do a
forecast. LOL
s.h.
subscribers, backed off its threat to drop the Weather Channel from
its service over a contract dispute.
On Thursday, Dish Network said it was removing the Weather Channel in
favor of its own weather network, called Weather Cast, that it was
launching Friday.
Although Weather Cast did indeed launch, the Weather Channel is also
still in Dish Network homes.
Dish Network cited the Weather Channel's addition of movies to its
lineup as the reason it was dropping the service.
However, people close to the situation said it was the Weather
Channel's push for a higher fee from Dish Network that led to the
dispute.
According to SNL Kagan, an industry consulting firm, the Weather
Channel charges about 11 cents per month, per subscriber for the
channel. The Weather Channel is looking to increase that fee by about
10%.
For now, the two sides are still talking. Dish Network has always been
one of the tougher distributors and in the past has shown a
willingness to drop networks over fee disputes.
TNGTony
For those who might be inclined to scoff, "All this drama over a penny
per subscriber per month?" Try this number on for size. NBC wanted
nearly $2,000,000 more a year from Dish. Dish said, you aint worth it!
:)
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shortspark
not notice closed captions. Can someone verify that? I can't seem to
bring them up no matter what I do with my 622 settings or my tv. I
can't imagine a brand new station that is dedicated to something
important like the weather would not provide captions.
MARTY
larry55
get rid of the weather channel i never watch it any more.who care about
al being silly in the morning.
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Jean Smith
They respond to comments quickly. We'd already had a second round on
the interactivity <Select> not working to bring up localized data. This
may be the same problem TWC has with the switch to HD.
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Rich Piehl
Sorry I'm late to the thread... I believe this has changed
At one point earlier in May Dish was running their own Weather network
on channel 213 over a weekend. It was pretty bad - the acoustics
sounded like they were in a metal warehouse and the two meteorologists I
saw reminded me of a small town local TV weather report.
But now. if you tune to channel 213 you will see that it is labeled
TWC2. There is a banner up talking about the new channel coming and the
channel that was there being discontinued.
shawn
Hmm, the 2 in TWC2 is interesting. I'm not aware of the Weather
Channel having a second channel other than their local weather
channels. I suppose Dish could be deciding to carry all of the local
weather channels and assigning them to people that sign up for local
channels.
Patty Winter
In article <i9dg06tricfhmigve...@4ax.com>,
shawn <nanof...@gmail.com> wrote:
[bunch of unneeded quotage snipped]
>Hmm, the 2 in TWC2 is interesting. I'm not aware of the Weather
>Channel having a second channel other than their local weather
>channels. I suppose Dish could be deciding to carry all of the local
>weather channels and assigning them to people that sign up for local
>channels.
http://press.weather.com/press_detail.asp?id=296
Patty
Tony Calguire
news:62VNn.25528$yx....@newsfe13.iad:
>
> At one point earlier in May Dish was running their own Weather network
> on channel 213 over a weekend. It was pretty bad - the acoustics
> sounded like they were in a metal warehouse and the two meteorologists
> I saw reminded me of a small town local TV weather report.
>
You can read in the following blog link about that new weather chanel which
only lasted a few days. This blog was written after the channel was put on
the air, but before it was pulled...
Kimba W Lion
>But now. if you tune to channel 213 you will see that it is labeled
>TWC2.
213 was non-existent last night.
SFTV_troy
<norepliesbyem...@norepliesbyemail.invalid> wrote:
>
> Oh, bullshit. TWC is crap and I won't miss it.
You may be disappointed to discover the Dish Weathercast is nothing
more than a radar with temperatures splayed over a map. That's why my
weather channel looks like on WCAU 10-2 in Philadelphia
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Stargazer
You can still view it on 'weathernation.com'
(http://www.weathernation.com)
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Bob K
> You can still view it on 'weathernation.com'
> (http://www.weathernation.com)
>
Maybe you can -- I can't!
That address gets redirected to http://www.searchnut.com. One of the
anti-spyware programs here has put an entry in my HOSTS file to block
access to that.
A simple Google search confirmed blocking that access was legitimate.
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Rich Piehl
So I wasn't too far off with my comments about "broadcast from a
warehouse" and "small town news".
Rich Piehl
And hasn't come back.
Don't know whether they going to reintroduce it later once they get the
whole thing looking professional or whether the whole project has fallen
through.
Professor Bubba
<rpiehl5REM...@NOSPAMcharter.net> wrote:
The Weather Cast is dead. It lasted only four days, which is supposed
to be the record for the shortest-lived channel ever.
TWC2, which replaced it on Dish 213, is intended to be a conduit for
more focused local and regional weather coverage. This was reportedly
part of the deal with Dish.
Rich Piehl
Since it's tied to TWC I'm hoping that doesn't mean they'll do nothing
but carry more locally focused episodes of Storm Stories from 10 years
ago (rolls eyes).