A BIG thumbs down to KTRK-Houston

[purpledevil]

I went to check what the forecast for today was going to be on 13.3 "ABC 13 Weather Now" and found that it is gone and replaced by Live Well Network. Mind you, Live Well Network is already at 13.2 so they are now running the same programming on .2 and .3. What the hell happened? If their agreement with Accuweather wasn't renewed, ok, but why not run the local forecast reports and radar on a loop at least? We now have no weather service for the City and that's ridiculous.

 

[tripinva]

This was apparently a corporate decision by ABC, as the other seven ABC O&O stations also dropped Accuweather for an SD version of Live Well.

- Trip

 

[Zootopia3000]

I say, big thumbs up. Might actually get something worth watching on this subchannel soon down the road.

 

[azumanga]

But two separate versions of LiveWell? As most SD-only digital TVs and boxes convert HD to SD, this is a bit redundant.

 

[gbranch]

This is a trend that is happening across the country - stations dropping weather sub-channels for other programming. The weather channels must not be returning enough revenue to stay on the air. Most likely, KTRK will replace the SD version of Live Well with other programming sometime in the future.

Up here in Tyler-Longview, we used to have 2 weather sub-channels, now we have none. One was replaced by This TV and the other by spanish language network Estrella.

 

[mr.ric]

I used to watch that weather station. Too bad it's gone now.

Well, there's always smartphones, regular cell phones, a nearest computer, etc. to get the weather.

 

[mmnassour]

Yep...anything but television which is doing the durnedest impersonation of radio these days............. :

 

[HoustonListener]

NO! With the Weather Channel showing anything but weather, KTRK's Accu-Weather channel became my "go to" source for weather when watching TV. At least a station could cheaply run the radar loop with the National Weather Service weather radio audio feed (like the cable company did when I lived in Austin in the early 90s). this would cost nearly nothing for a station that already has a weather radar.

 

[azumanga]

At least a station could cheaply run the radar loop with the National Weather Service weather radio audio feed (like the cable company did when I lived in Austin in the early 90s).

Does Time Warner still do that today in Austin? When I was in Austin in 2006, TWC had a channel with weather radar of multiple views (metro, Central Texas, Texas, Southwest and National) with NWS audio playing under.