WEATHER CHANNEL BECOMING MORE IRRELEVANT

[sdwulfdawg]

Thursday night looking on "The Weather Channel" you got to see hours upon hours upon hours of a pretty badly produced "reality" show on the Alaska Coast Guard...and very little current weather...

John Coleman must be having major intestinal problems seeing what they did with his baby...kind of "Jersey Shored" the channel he started. Sad. Too bad Weathernation doesn't seem to be making any inroads in the cable TV universe.

 

[OldNumber7]

The writing was on the wall for TWC once Al Gore invented the Internet. Anybody can go online at home or with their mobile device and get instant weather information and forecasts; no waiting, no commercials, no sitting through forecasts for God-knows-where. TWC now exists only for blizzards and hurricanes, when folks want to tune in to watch live pictures of mayhem.

 

[DToTheJ]

Give TWC credit - at least they're not airing movies anymore.

 

[Bengalsfan]

www.weather.gov

Straight from the horse's mouth. It's all I need anymore.

 

[Mediafrog+]

TWC sibling WeatherScan is much more useful. Unfortunately not widely available.

 

[Laurence Glavin]

I "sort of" defended the Weather Channel on Huffington Post the other day. I use it here in New England for better coverage of snowstorms in the winter because so many local stations turn blizzards and such as into circus performances, with "reporters" sticking rulers into snowbanks. I also get my jollies in mid-summer with reports about extreme droughts in states where the officials (usually right-wing Republicans) are alway praying to Chay-zuss for rain.

 

[R.D.P.]

All I got to do is click on the mission and then the dashboard icon on my Apple Computer and walla bam, I can get the latest weather forecast.

This is all done without the use of an Internet connection.

Neat isn't it!

R.D.P. <><

 

[TheBigA]

The Weather Channel is irrelevant when the weather is good. For temperature and forecast, it's always been easier and quicker to get it elsewhere. But when disaster hits, it's the only place to get round-the-clock coverage in detail. So next time there's a blizzard or a hurricane, tell me how irrelevant The Weather Channel is.

 

[Kenny Atkinson]

Give TWC credit - at least they're not airing movies anymore.

That was the beginning of the end.

 

[flashback]

there are still people who don`t go to the internet for the weather.it would be nice if the weather channel was good for the forcast in good weather and bad.

we get so jaded in the technology age.

 

[nomadcowatbk]

The Weather Channel is irrelevant when the weather is good. For temperature and forecast, it's always been easier and quicker to get it elsewhere. But when disaster hits, it's the only place to get round-the-clock coverage in detail. So next time there's a blizzard or a hurricane, tell me how irrelevant The Weather Channel is.

CNN and the Weather Channel are channels that people only watch for breaking news and weather events. Weather Channel has gone the infotainment route when the weather is calm.

 

[imhomerjay]

there are still people who don`t go to the internet for the weather.it would be nice if the weather channel was good for the forcast in good weather and bad.

It is. Simply not ever hour of every day on the TV channel component, since catering to Luddites is no longer a sustainable business model.

 

[Mario500]

^Not everyone is going to understand what "Luddites" means (I find the word unappealing, personally)? I have never heard a person close to me say that word.

 

[Bengalsfan]

CNN and the Weather Channel are channels that people only watch for breaking news and weather events. Weather Channel has gone the infotainment route when the weather is calm.

Infotainment, in this case, should be in quotes. I find the programming neither informative or entertaining. Just something else to have to flip through on the way to finding something good to watch.

 

[flashback]

there are still people who don`t go to the internet for the weather.it would be nice if the weather channel was good for the forcast in good weather and bad.

It is. Simply not ever hour of every day on the TV channel component, since catering to Luddites is no longer a sustainable business model.

is this what the world has come to?the hell with the people who don`t have internet?

 

[mgsports]

Coast Gard Alaska is a Hit.
They could show Weather Movies.

 

[azumanga]

They could show Weather Movies.

The last time they showed movies, weather related or not, their viewers read them the riot act.

 

[wirelessfugu]

Bain Capitol owns them, that's why they suck

 

[imhomerjay]

is this what the world has come to?the hell with the people who don`t have internet?

It's called accepting that times change, audiences move on, and that you can't employ business models from the last century when enough people have moved on to make such things unsustainable.

 

[JeeperOne]

John Coleman must be having major intestinal problems seeing what they did with his baby...kind of "Jersey Shored" the channel he started. Sad. Too bad Weathernation doesn't seem to be making any inroads in the cable TV universe.

Ahh but AccuWeather has though with its national subchannel feed for local stations as well as forecasts they provide for such channels like NFL RedZone (Who has THE WACKIEST AccuWeather meteorologists IN THE BIZ reporting for them during Fantasy Football Live I might add ;D *LOL!* )

Cheers & 73