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The SkyTrak Weather Network airs constant local and regional weather information, replays of WTHR's noon and 6 p. m. newscasts, NBC News ' early morning news program Early Today and the second half of the Saturday edition of Today ( which are not seen on WTHR ), as well as a variety of educational programming ( most of which is aimed at children ), including replays of WTHR's long-running quizbowl Brain Game.
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SkyTrak and Weather
The station is the local broadcast outlet for the SkyTrak Weather Network, which can also be seen on the digital signal of parent station WTHR on its digital subchannel 13. 2.
Weather and Network
* The Weather Network
TWC's sister channel in Canada is The Weather Network in English and MétéoMédia in French, which use similar technology that is currently in use in the USA.
Apart from its stake in the Weather Network / MétéoMédia, TWC only runs its US channel, although it does produce international forecasts.
Subchannels carrying Weather Plus have moved to the Local AccuWeather Channel, kept the Weather Plus engine, or switched affiliations ( e. g., to This TV or the Retro Television Network ).
Over the years, attempts to broadcast international versions of TWC ( apart from Canada's The Weather Network / MétéoMédia and the Australian version of the Weather Channel ) failed.
The Weather Channel also shares radar and forecasts with The Weather Network, particularly for the Weather Channel's Canadian forecasts.
Launched in 1999, Weatherscan is available on some cable systems in the United States often their digital cable lineups though in fewer markets than The Weather Channel, though some providers place the channel on their basic cable lineup alongside The Weather Channel, a separate feed for satellite subscribers is expected to launch in the summer of 2010 on the Dish Network satellite service.
On August 15, 2005, the logo was overhauled again ; the blue rectangle's corners are straight with no white trim on the edge and " The Weather Channel " text is now in title-case and left-justified, similar to the Weather Network.
* " Weather You Can Always Turn To " ( March 1991 – March 1996 ; U. K. March 1996 – April 1998 ; also used currently in NOAA Weather Network )
On May 20, 2010, Dish Network announced that it was dropping the Weather Channel at midnight ET that day in favor of its own similar weather information channel, The Weather Cast.
The switch was due to high rates that the Weather Channel demanded Dish Network to pay ( the Weather Channel requested a rate increase from 11 cents per subscriber per month to 12 cents, a nine percent increase, totalling $ 140, 000 per month for all Dish subscribers ), as well as The Weather Channel changing from an information-based channel to an entertainment-based one.
The Weather Channel encouraged Dish Network customers to switch to other TV providers.
Dave Shull, senior vice president for programming for Dish Network said Weather Channel fees are harder for Dish Network to stomach as more people get weather information online.
" As of May 24, The Weather Channel stated that it had come to an agreement with Dish Network that would result in Dish carrying The Weather Channel for the next several years.
Weather and airs
** The Weather Channel airs on cable television for the first time.
Weatherscan's forecast products are generated by an IntelliStar unit at the cable provider's headend, which is configured differently than the IntelliStars used by The Weather Channel, in that different graphics and additional weather products are featured and that the service airs an uninterrupted, rolling local weather format with information being shown on a continuous loop.
Free2View airs MSNBC's programming from 4 p. m. to midnight ET in a block that repeats twice ( live for the first airing ), with local Weather Channel forecasts.
" Weather news " airs at: 12 and: 42 minutes after each hour.
an L-bar / corner forecast has appeared for those with the IntelliStar, and a satellite L-bar forecast airs for those with Weather Stars that do not support the L-bar ( the Weather Star XL and older models ) or those without Weather Stars.
Overnights, its airs a live feed of WOOD-TV's Doppler weather radar ( known as " Storm Track Live ") along with audio from NOAA Weather Radio.
The Weather Channel suspends the music during local forecasts when a hurricane approaches the United States coastal areas and airs the " Storm Alert " music during the Local on the 8s.
KFRH airs weather updates from the National Weather Service in Las Vegas, via the NOAA Weather Radio frequency on 162. 55 MHz on its HD3 signal.
Weather and constant
In addition to surface weather maps, since July 1, 1948, the United States has generated constant pressure charts within their Daily Weather Map series.
Companies working in the field of meteorology, such as the National Weather Service and private forecasting companies, also utilize shift work, as constant monitoring of the weather is necessary.
Weather and local
Weather radios provide an alarm when a severe weather advisory is issued for the local area, though these are mainly available only in the United States.
It was Satcom 1 that was instrumental in helping early cable TV channels such as WTBS ( now TBS Superstation ), HBO, CBN ( now ABC Family ), and The Weather Channel become successful, because these channels distributed their programming to all of the local cable TV headends using the satellite.
The event was captured and filmed by local media and was seen live on national television channels such as The Weather Channel.
The Weather Channel uses special proprietary equipment that inserts local weather forecast and warning information if it is viewed on a cable TV system.
The original Weather Star technology has been upgraded on larger cable systems to the IntelliStar, including Vocal Local to announce the current conditions, weather bulletins, and the detailed local forecast.
The Weather Channel produces a service based on modified versions of Weather Star technology called Weatherscan, on which a separate channel constantly displays local and regional conditions and forecasts along with the Weather Channel's logo and advertisements.
NBC Universal also owned NBC Weather Plus, a rival service which was carried by and featured content from its local affiliates ; that service announced its discontinuation three months later.
Since its inception, the Weather Channel has incorporated local forecasts using Weather Star computers installed at cable headends.
The Weather Star systems also utilize a Lower Display Line ( LDL ) on the bottom of the screen during local forecasts and national programming, providing current conditions for a specific location and two or three towns within 15 miles, almanac data, forecasts and ( in select cities ) traffic information on cable headends using the IntelliStar system and only current conditions, and forecasts on cable headends using WeatherStar XL and older models.
The Weather Cast was discontinued in anticipation of a Weatherscan-based service that would provide local weather information for Dish Network customers.
Brian Davis is the local meteorologist for WMTY-TV and recently earned the honorable seal of approval from both the American Meteorological Society as well as the National Weather Association.
In 2010, a local National Weather Service employee and his wife were involved in an Islamic domestic terrorism plot that had proceeded to the operational phase.
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* Tony Laubach-Storm Chaser and Meteorologist who has been featured on the National Geographic Channel and as one of the featured Meteorologists with the TWISTEX team on Discovery Channel's " Storm Chasers "; his severe weather videos have been featured regularly on national television networks such as The Weather Channel, CNN, and ABC as well as local news stations across the country.
Macon County was not equipped with tornado warning sirens ; despite the efforts of the local news media and the National Weather Service, many residents were unprepared.
Link to local weather information from the NWS Spokane Office ( National Weather Service ) – http :// www. wrh. noaa. gov / otx /
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