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WEATHER CHANNEL BECOMING MORE IRRELEVANT

I like the Weather Channel because I'm interested in the weather going on nationwide, not just in my town. Of course there are a million other ways to get your local forecast, but sometimes I want more than that and TWC provides it. With that said, I do find their entertainment programming quite annoying and irrelevant.
 
TWC has ceased to be useful for me as a source of weather information. Ever since I dumped cable years ago, I have missed having the good ol' "Local on the 8s" forecast for my immediate area. However, with innovations like the iPhone (and widgets and gadgets for my desktop and laptop) I can get a temperature reading at a glance or a swipe of a finger, and forecasts from many different sources (local TV, NWS/NOAA, Wunderground, Accuweather, and yes, TWC).

Plus I have a good old-fashioned thermometer on my back porch.

So is TWC irrelevant? To me, the answer would seem to be yes.
 
Dan Dennis said:
TWC has ceased to be useful for me as a source of weather information. Ever since I dumped cable years ago, I have missed having the good ol' "Local on the 8s" forecast for my immediate area.
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TWC still has those. If you weren't getting them before you dropped cable, it ain't TWC's fault (Unless we're talking TWC - The cable company)

Cheers & 73 :)
 
I have extremely rarely watched TWC since they were bought by NBC-Universal. I don't like Al Roker's show, I don't like Storm Chasers and Coast Guard Alaska crap, and I don't like people being so hyper about the weather (yep I've seen meteorlogists here in Seattle go absolutely CRAZY when an inch or two or snow falls...shut down all the schools!)

-crainbebo
 
Dan Dennis said:
I can get a temperature reading at a glance or a swipe of a finger, and forecasts from many different sources (local TV, NWS/NOAA, Wunderground, Accuweather, and yes, TWC).
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Not Weatherbug.com?

ixnay
 
I used to like Stephanie Abrams, but boy does she get on my last nerve anymore. That is, when you can find her doing the weather in between news (read non-weather) spots. This morning I noticed Mark Mancuso, formerly of the Weather Channel, on the Accuweather channel we get in Knoxville on WBIR 10.2. Also, normally with the blizzard that hit the plains states 12/19/11 and 12/20/11 I would have had the WX Channel on quite a bit, but I didn't bother with it at all for this event. I've seen enough of Cantore wetting his pants over "thundersnow."
 
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