After this weekend, I think Dishnetwork should have just let The Weather Channel go. I miss seeing the weather, I noticed tonight, the weather didn't even come on until 11pm, and only for an hour. Then its back to 4 or 5 hours of storm stories. What is going on with this channel? Plus all the talk about having local weather suddenly dropped off and no one even speaks of it. I can't imagine many people watching the channel for weather now, seems like just a waste.
The Weather Channel is worthless
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Yea, I read about that, but talks seem to have vanished. The guide used to have it on there, and they removed it. But the orginal "weather" channel is worthless.
I'm getting a little tired of the morning hosts handwringing over the gulf oil spill.
Last week Jen Carfagno in studio was getting ready to toss to Julie Martin on site and Carfagno when describing the oil used the words "Icky" and "disgusting"...C'mon, grow up honey...
The Martin has this woman there on the beach and of course the woman is sobbing about the beach and the oil..Ok I empathize with their plight.
It's not the end of the world. We are people of great ingenuity. We will get the mess cleaned up and learn from it.
I digress.
The beef I have was the lack of professionalism and jouranalistic integrity shown by these two on camera people.
I am beginning to think the worst thing that could ever have happened was NBC U purchasing TWC. NBC U management has ruined what was once an informative and entertaining service.
TWC is NOT a news service. NBC U people know by looking at the ratings that MSNBC is a piece of crap no one watches. So they use the popularity of TWC to snag those viewers.
NBC sucks sideways.
Last week Jen Carfagno in studio was getting ready to toss to Julie Martin on site and Carfagno when describing the oil used the words "Icky" and "disgusting"...C'mon, grow up honey...
The Martin has this woman there on the beach and of course the woman is sobbing about the beach and the oil..Ok I empathize with their plight.
It's not the end of the world. We are people of great ingenuity. We will get the mess cleaned up and learn from it.
I digress.
The beef I have was the lack of professionalism and jouranalistic integrity shown by these two on camera people.
I am beginning to think the worst thing that could ever have happened was NBC U purchasing TWC. NBC U management has ruined what was once an informative and entertaining service.
TWC is NOT a news service. NBC U people know by looking at the ratings that MSNBC is a piece of crap no one watches. So they use the popularity of TWC to snag those viewers.
NBC sucks sideways.
When TWC first went HD, I was stunned by the amazing PQ and state of the art studio that they presented. Then, they ruined it all by adding all of the worthless graphics, and selling out to the "wake up with Al" jerks. And now, geez...biggest joke of a weather channel ever.
Whatever NBC get's their hands on gets ruined. Reminds me when they merge their former internet portal with XOOM.com. After a year, XOOM/NBCi was history and the xoom domain went to a money xfer service.
They already have it. It's called The Tonight Show. :sleeoThe next thing we'll get will be "Go to Sleep with Jay"
It's one of the many laws of cable programming. Niche channels slowly move to the mainstream.
Music Television now has no music
Nick at Night's TV Land now has original reality and scripted programming
The Nashville Network turned into Spike, which has pretty well become the CSI channel
Thw Weather Channel is no different.
Music Television now has no music
Nick at Night's TV Land now has original reality and scripted programming
The Nashville Network turned into Spike, which has pretty well become the CSI channel
Thw Weather Channel is no different.
Speaking of niche channels, add Fx, Remember Breakfast Time with Tom Bergeron and Laurie Hibberd, Bob the puppet, Jim the weatherman and all the Road Warriors? Now Its mainstream. Don't forget Jack the dog also.
Weather Channel sucks, Wake up with Al Stroker? cmon, bring back Weathercast
I gave up on TWC at least 10 years ago when it became apparent that they had a bias for reporting weather in certain areas over ours. We live in east Texas and I don't know how many times I would turn on TWC to try to get information about approaching thunderstorms or serious weather systems only to have to listen to hours of blah, blah, blah, about the weather in the northeast - which did not include storms by the way.
I have given up on TV for my source of weather information. I just stick to online weather services or widgets/apps for my phone.
You forgot that SciFi changed to SyFy so they could avoid showing Sci Fi.
And that Headline News has tabloid shows in prime time instead of 24 hours news.
And you left off the second phase:
Start a second channel to do what the original channel used to do.
Such as MTV2 to show music instead of reality shows.
Such as the new Cooking channel to show cooking shows instead of the reality shows on the Food Network.
Such as TWC2 to show weather instead of movies and documentaries.
PS If you really want weather, then:
Welcome to Weather Underground : Weather Underground
is better than any TV channel could be. (The free version of the service is fine for my needs, YMMV.)
