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WeatherPlus lives on!

jal41

jal41

NBC WeatherPlus shut down as planned...or did it?

There are no more national segments or commercials (that ended yesterday evening before 7 PM), but WXIA/Atlanta has removed the WeatherPlus logos, and is now using "11 Alive Weather". Local dopper radar with no sound. L-Bar graphics are the exact same.

A screenshot of WCAU/Philadelphia with an "NBC Plus" logo has appeared on another forum. Same WeatherPlus graphics.

Looks like certain affiliates are keeping the local equipment, making a couple of modifications to it, and will run their own weather channels for the time being. Other affiliates have pulled theirs and replaced it with RTN or This TV.
 
Absolutely. The equipment is still good and usable; I imagine some stations want to recycle it rather than throw it away.

I know of a lot of stations which recycled the equipment, as well as a few which moved to AccuWeather to replace WeatherPlus. The number of stations doing something completely new like RTN, This TV, or Mexicanal is disappointingly small.

- Trip
 
As best I can tell, most stations have replaced WX+ with a similar weather service, either with recycled equipment or from AccuWeather.

I can confirm two stations flipping to This TV (WAFF, WGAL), with rumors of a third (KWWL).

I can confirm two stations flipping to RTN (WJAC, WTOV), and I think there's a third but I can't tell (WCMH).

WOAI flipped to Mexicanal.

WAVE is airing a blank slide, like it's been airing for over a year for The Tube.

WHDH is doing an SD simulcast of the HD.

KING and WVTM are doing something but I can't tell what exactly.

I heard KETK has completely dropped 56-2 as a subchannel but cannot confirm.

WRC, among others, is still airing with WX+ L-bar with a blank picture where the radars and video used to be. I imagine something will change on these in the near future.

A few stations haven't redesigned it very much at all. KNBC dropped it for News Raw I think, but WNBC hasn't launched their all-news channel yet (and hasn't otherwise changed 4-2). Other than WRC with its unchanged L-bar and blank screen, and WVIT with unchanged L-bar and local graphics, all the other NBC O&O stations are now calling their -2 feed "NBC Plus." WBAL is among the non-O&O stations to keep a very similar look to what they had before.

- Trip
 
They should just call it Weather Channel Local. Such as for NBC 30 Connecicut call it Weather Channel Local Connecticut. Or for NBC 5 in LA call it Weather Channel Local LA.
 
WESH in Orlando has kept the graphics border the same, retained the Weather Plus + station identity logo. Inbetween the locally produced forecast spots it sounds like an extended version of their imaging theme is playing behind some outsourced radar and random stills, possibly AccuWeather. All commercial breaks seem to be PSAs and DTV conversion nags. They are introducing the local forecast with the Weather Plus staging they used before.
 
Ken said:
They should just call it Weather Channel Local. Such as for NBC 30 Connecicut call it Weather Channel Local Connecticut. Or for NBC 5 in LA call it Weather Channel Local LA.
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Don't you mean NBC 4?
 
tripinva said:
As best I can tell, most stations have replaced WX+ with a similar weather service, either with recycled equipment or from AccuWeather.
I can confirm two stations flipping to This TV (WAFF, WGAL), with rumors of a third (KWWL).
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Here in Houston, KPRC replaced Weather Plus with This TV a few weeks ago on their 2.2 subchannel. Still running LA-TV on 2.3.

ABC O&O KTRK already has an AccuWeather based service on their 13.3 subchannel.
 
Mediafrog+ said:
Here in Houston, KPRC replaced Weather Plus with This TV a few weeks ago on their 2.2 subchannel. Still running LATV on 2.3.

ABC O&O KTRK already has an AccuWeather based service on their 13.3 subchannel.
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Yeah, WDIV and KPRC both picked up This TV in December; I was only discussing those that flipped on 01/01/09. KCBD in Lubbock also added This TV.

I think KING is doing an SD simulcast, though I'm not 100% sure.

I still don't have an answer for WNWO, WCMH, or WVTM.

- Trip
 
KVEO (Brownsville) dropped 23.2 on 12/31. Probably a temporary thing- I emailed them last month and they said they were going to replace Weather Plus with something. They didn't say what.
 
WeatherPlus, without the WeatherPlus name, on WHEC-DT 10.2 in Rochester...I should check WGRZ-DT and WSTM-DT, too, I suppose...
 
So 23-2 is completely gone? Not just blank, like deleted? (I actually heard the same thing about KETK, but couldn't confirm that one)

- Trip
 
tripinva said:
So 23-2 is completely gone? Not just blank, like deleted? (I actually heard the same thing about KETK, but couldn't confirm that one)

- Trip
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Yup, it's completely gone. If I punch in 23-2 on my remote, it automatically goes to 23-1. Aren't KETK and KVEO owned by the same company?
 
Yes. You confirming this one makes me think that one is true as well.

Thanks!

- Trip
 
KSL will be doing "Live 5 Weather", with less animation than WeatherPlus had, so we save on bandwidth. We added Universal Sports on channel 5-2, a few weeks ago.
 
KING 5.2 is now broadcasting Universal Sports. I know because I saw the NBCUS logo on 115 (channel on Comcast)

-crainbebo
 
Was the national feed of WeatherPlus replaced by Universal Sports as KPNX 12.2 was showing Universal Sports with the 12 News Weather Plus L-Bar on screen from 11:00am - 11:30am today.
 
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