* Atmospheres ( TV show ), a former television series on The Weather Channel

** The Weather Channel airs on cable television for the first time.

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 ( TWC ) is an American cable and satellite television network that, since May 2, 1982, broadcasts weather forecasts and weather-related news, along with entertainment programming related to weather such as Storm Stories, 24 hours a day.

Content from The Weather Channel is available for purchase from the NBCUniversal Archives.

The Weather Channel debuted its high-definition simulcast on September 26, 2007.

The Weather Channel was founded in 1981 by John Coleman and Frank Batten.

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 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.

The Weather Channel is headquartered in the Cumberland / Galleria area immediately northwest of Atlanta, overlooking the " Cobb Cloverleaf " interchange from a high-rise in the Interstate North complex.

TWC also runs websites in Brazil ( Canal do Tempo ), the United Kingdom ( Weather Channel ), France ( Météo 123 ) and Germany ( Wetter 123 ).

A definitive history of the network, The Weather Channel: The Improbable Rise of a Media Phenomenon, by Frank Batten and Jeffrey L. Cruikshank, was published by Harvard Business Press in May 2002, on TWC's 20th anniversary.

On January 3, 2008, it was reported that The Weather Channel and its assets were put up for sale by Landmark Communications.

On July 6, 2008, NBC Universal, Bain Capital and Blackstone Group agreed to purchase the Weather Channel from Landmark.

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 ).

From November 2008 through February 2009, The Weather Channel terminated seven long-time on-camera meteorologists: Kristina Abernathy, Eboni Deon, Kristin Dodd, Rich Johnson, Cheryl Lemke, Mark Mancuso and Dave Schwartz.

In July, 2010, The Weather Channel terminated Bill Keneely, the last of the original on-camera meteorologists who aired on the network's first broadcasts in 1982.

However for New York-based forecasting operations ( those utilized for MSNBC and CNBC forecasts, for instance ), the former NBC Weather Plus forecasting, radar, and graphics systems remain in place, with banners changed to fit the Weather Channel graphics scheme.

On September 10, 2009, the co-founder of The Weather Channel, Frank Batten, died.

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.

A meteorologist at the console of the IBM 7090 in the Joint Numerical Weather Prediction Unit.

The web site Capital Weather published an interview with WJLA meteorologist Brian van de Graaff.

* Gregory S. Forbes, meteorologist and Severe Weather Expert for The Weather Channel

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.

* Eric Fisher, meteorologist who now works for The Weather Channel.

* Jim Cantore, The Weather Channel meteorologist

* Mike Bettes, meteorologist for The Weather Channel in Atlanta, Georgia

It was developed by meteorologist Wayne Palmer, who first published his method in the 1965 paper Meteorological Drought for the Office of Climatology of the U. S. Weather Bureau.

In 1984, the NHC was separated from the Miami Weather Service Forecast Office, which meant the meteorologist in charge at Miami was no longer in a position above the hurricane center director.

For the first seven years, the weather was presented by former WLS-TV Chicago chief meteorologist John Coleman, who would leave in 1982 to start The Weather Channel.

He was hired by a private weather forecasting business, later went to work for the National Weather Service, and was chief meteorologist at Capital City Airport in Lansing, Michigan when he retired in 1994.

In the course of his research, he spoke with Bob Case, who had been a deputy meteorologist in the Boston office of the National Weather Service at the time of the storm.

John Shockley, a meteorologist from Wichita, Kansas, reported that, using the state Weather Bureau radar, he tracked a number of odd aerial objects flying at altitudes between about 6000 and 9000 feet.

* Jeff Crum-( National Weather Association ( NWA ) Seal of Approval ) Charlotte-Triad chief meteorologist ; weekday evenings and overnight loop

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* Isaac Cline, was the chief meteorologist at the Galveston, Texas office of the US Weather Bureau from 1889 to 1901.

However even before its debut, the series and its network were beset by controversy when a 53d WRS member, Captain ( Major select ) Nicole L. Mitchell, an ARWO and on-camera meteorologist for TWC from July 2004 to January 2011, revealed on 4 June 2012 that she had filed suit 9 September 2011 in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Georgia against The Weather Channel and its owners, NBC Universal and two private equity firms, Bain Capital and the Blackstone Group, claiming that the termination of her employment in 2010 was discriminatory and in violation of the Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act of 1994.

Isaac M. Cline, the meteorologist in charge of the local Weather Bureau, lived on Galveston Island.

Not expected to be a direct threat, a meteorologist at the Bermuda Weather Service expected gusty winds and potentially heavy rainfall.

John Raymond Hope ( May 14, 1919-June 13, 2002 ) was an American meteorologist who specialized in hurricane forecasting and was an on-air personality on The Weather Channel.

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A retired National Weather Service meteorologist observed the storm.