DISH Network to launch new Regional Weather Channels

[HDRoberts]

Is that Betsy Kling? If so, she is good and she used to be in JAX, FL with her husband Paul Thomas.

Indeed, both now working for WKYC in Cleveland. Nice to have an attractive weather girl who is not a ditz.

 

[ChopChopNET4192]

Call Letters WSCAN
Affiliation IND
Channel # 8333
Local Channel # 10
Orbital Slot 119
Packaging: Phoenix (Prescott) DMA

Call Letters WSCAN
Affiliation IND
Channel # 8960
Local Channel # 9
Orbital Slot 119
Packaging: Tucson (Sierra Vista) DMA

Call Letters WSCAN
Channel # 8333
Local Channel # 9
Orbital Slot 119
Packaging: Phoenix (Prescott) DMA

Call Letters WSCAN
Channel # 8960
Local Channel # 10
Orbital Slot 119
Packaging: Tucson (Sierra Vista) DMA

Weatherscan is no longer available on Dish as of June 24th, 2015. This is because WeatherNation is taking over.

 

[JSheridan]

Holy seven and a half year old thread Batman!

 

[joewhite57]

Holy seven and a half year old thread Batman!

Right you are boy wonder!

 

[jerryez]

I thought it was all recent information, until I came across a post of mine that I did not remember making and looked at the date. YIPESSS! There should be a block on resurrecting a post over a year old.

 

[Jim5506]

Or perhaps when one attempts to resurrect a necro-post, the mods must approve the post or explain to the newby why it is not good etiquette to attempt what they have done?

 

[comfortably_numb]

Nothing beats my 15-year-old thread thread resurrection last week, though

 

[Claude Greiner]

Dish must have a lot of extra bandwidth to waste on regional weather channels.

 

[JSheridan]

 

[HipKat]

Now THAT is just funny

 

[mwdxer1]

since these are on spotbeams its not taking up any extra conus bandwidth

What happens if we get the diginets some day?

 

[Claude Greiner]

If the spot beams are not taking up any additional bandwidth, how about adding government access or sub channels ?

The local weather doesn’t help me. They could easily do it like the cable company used to do it and go to a local forecast every 8-10 minutes.

All they would need is 1 conus channel, and write some software where they need to dump a text file with all the forecast into based on zip code and Switch to that every 10 minutes.

Kind of like that dumb thing some of these cable companies do by making a custom “video bill” explaining the bill every month.

 

[HipKat]

If the spot beams are not taking up any additional bandwidth, how about adding government access or sub channels ?

The local weather doesn’t help me. They could easily do it like the cable company used to do it and go to a local forecast every 8-10 minutes.

All they would need is 1 conus channel, and write some software where they need to dump a text file with all the forecast into based on zip code and Switch to that every 10 minutes.

Kind of like that dumb thing some of these cable companies do by making a custom “video bill” explaining the bill every month.

Same code they use for Rainmeter Desktop Weather widgets