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Weather Channel To Air Movies For First Time

Ken said:
Im surprised no one else wants to start up a Weather Network to compete with The Weather Channel. We can have 3 cable news networks so why not have another weather network. Im sure CBS or ABC could do it and show weather all the time. Not sure what a good name would be tho.
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The problem is money...particularly at the local cable end. The Weather Channel requires cable companies lease (albeit with a one time payment) the WeatherStar computers needed to generate the local forecasts. The same thing would have to happen if a competitor showed up...and cable companies do not want to have to deal with the hassle of multiple competing weather networks and their computers and their monetary costs.

The best thing to competition will be digital OTA subchannels...particularly the one AccuWeather offers. While there is only one version for the market rather than one for each cable system service area...it is still local enough to work. Plus...it is all weather forecasts, not personality talk or movies.
 
BRNout said:
Honestly, I think it would be a better channel if a smaller entity did it. Prior to buying TWC, NBC had a weather channel and it wasn't all that good. Just seems like when the big corporations get their hands on these things, they don't give it the same level of effort as a smaller (more dedicated) group would.
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I can't even watch TWC television when it's doing "weather".....

The aggressive soundtracks and the flash images leading into each sector coverage.... are just not conducive to looking at weather maps.

Dump the Eric Johnson "in you face" music, and, the Sports Channel like computer generated flash images.....

But really.... I'll only now go to TWC cable program as a last resort.

I do, however find TWC website to quite useful !
 
I've been waiting for "Misery" to appear on cable - any channel - for the longest time. Interesting that it will be on TWC...

Russell W. said:
Mr. Murdoch ought to give it a try. "FOX WEATHER: Our forecasts don't have a liberal bias! Our Fair & Balanced Radar shows an F5 that's barreling down on a small town in Vermont ... WOO HOO!!!" ;-)
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FWIW: There is already a weather "program" in place on many Fox O&O broadcast stations; it's called the "Sky Guardian."
 
wxman76 said:
Misery!? Just because one scene has a blizzard in it? Thats a stretch.
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Misery? What a joke! That channel is losing credibility so rapidly that it's not even funny. Why doesn't NBC just change their name to USA Network Express. :mad:
 
wxman76 said:
Misery!? Just because one scene has a blizzard in it? Thats a stretch.
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If weather is going to be the "star" (as stated earlier), just about any film ever made will be fair game -- they all have some sort of "weather".
 
The Perfect Storm aired at 8PM and 1030PM Eastern last night on The Weather Channel. I don't know about other times, but when I was in front of the TV they did "Local on The 8s" at exactly 11PM right after a commercial break. Then it was back to the movie. And unlike when they air STORM STORIES and the other documentries they did not have the local weather scrolling at the bottom of the screen.
 
I need my WeatherSTAR 4000! And Dave Schwartz!

-crainbebo
 
MarcB said:
The Perfect Storm aired at 8PM and 1030PM Eastern last night on The Weather Channel. I don't know about other times, but when I was in front of the TV they did "Local on The 8s" at exactly 11PM right after a commercial break. Then it was back to the movie. And unlike when they air STORM STORIES and the other documentries they did not have the local weather scrolling at the bottom of the screen.
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I don't know Mark, I was watching between about 10:30 and 11:10 pm CT and they did the bottom of the screen scroll in place of weather on the 8s - and only the scroll. No local radar, no weather channel music. And, not all that many spots during that segment.

Not sure how I ended up there, I guess I was just curious as to how they would handle it. Kind of like slowing to gawk at a car wreck. I wasn't impressed: no full local weather, so no local radar, and the movie was cut to shreds. And the cuts weren't just for language/content; there were portions of scenes that were awkwardly cut, in one case it was an abrupt cut from the boat to the Crows Nest that was clearly a ham-fisted edit.
 
BRNout said:
there were portions of scenes that were awkwardly cut, in one case it was an abrupt cut from the boat to the Crows Nest that was clearly a ham-fisted edit.
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Alot of stuff is horribly edited. When ION used to show reruns of ALICE and MAMA'S Family there were horrible edits. And The way the Golden Girls are edited for The Hallmark Channel are different from when LIFETIME used to air it. Some new scenes have shown up, but others have been removed and HALLMARK deletes the word HELL from the dialogue.

Radio too. Both CBS's 96.5 TIC a hot AC Station in Hartford and Buckley's 102.9 The Big D, an Oldies/Classic Hits station in Hartford play Heart of Glass by Blondie with the words "Pain in the A$$" cut and you can hear in the song right where it was edited. Interestingly enough when 96.5's sister station WZMX 93.7 was a Jammin' Oldies Station (before flipping to hip-hop in 01), they played Heart of Glass uncut.
 
MarcB said:
Alot of stuff is horribly edited. When ION used to show reruns of ALICE and MAMA'S Family there were horrible edits. And The way the Golden Girls are edited for The Hallmark Channel are different from when LIFETIME used to air it. Some new scenes have shown up, but others have been removed and HALLMARK deletes the word HELL from the dialogue.
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You may be on to something here. ION was just showing The Perfect Storm and it wouldn't surprise me a bit if TWC just ran their version. It would certainly explain the amateurish way in which the film was edited. Looked like a blind man did it with rusty scissors. There has been a longstanding relationship between ION and NBC.

All in all, it just makes a joke of the Weather Channel. Next thing we know, they'll be screening the likes of Howard the Duck and The Postman. Heck they'll be weather related - surely there's an exterior scene showing a sunny day or something. ::)
 
MarcB said:
The Perfect Storm aired at 8PM and 1030PM Eastern last night on The Weather Channel. I don't know about other times...
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As far as I know, films on the Weather Channel are only scheduled to run twice on Friday nights and no additional airings on the rest of the weekends.
 
Now I'll definitely be interested to see how "Misery" is treated on TWC. The following is a possibility:

Annie Wilkes (ax in hand, to a bound Paul Sheldon): "Trust me... It's for the best..."
Paul Sheldon: "Annie, please --"
Announcer: "Have you driven a Jeep today?"
 
although people would "frown" on this.......Canada has the idea a little better, that the channels that start up must "stay within" some variation of the format, which is why their TV Land is more classics, G4 is Actually tech oriented and Court TV is still staying TRU (pun intended) to Court TV. if anything that is only thing i like about the Canada regs.......other than that....everything is good at as it is....
 
hifidistortion said:
although people would "frown" on this.......Canada has the idea a little better, that the channels that start up must "stay within" some variation of the format, which is why their TV Land is more classics, G4 is Actually tech oriented and Court TV is still staying TRU (pun intended) to Court TV. if anything that is only thing i like about the Canada regs.......other than that....everything is good at as it is....
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To be honest, I am not frowning now. Not after a night of Misery on the Weather Channel. How absurd! At least Canadians still have a full-service weather channel (the Weather Network) available to them 24/7. So there's something to be said for the way they do things.

One piece of advice for Immigration Canada: don't let Jeff Zucker into the country for ANY reason!
 
DToTheJ said:
Now I'll definitely be interested to see how "Misery" is treated on TWC. The following is a possibility:

Annie Wilkes (ax in hand, to a bound Paul Sheldon): "Trust me... It's for the best..."
Paul Sheldon: "Annie, please --"
Announcer: "Have you driven a Jeep today?"
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BRNout said:
I am not frowning now. Not after a night of Misery on the Weather Channel. How absurd!
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So -- did they strategically cut to a commercial during that pivotal moment?
 
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