Heading west this morning on I-80? The Weather Channel (TWC) is an American pay television channel owned by Weather Group, LLC, a subsidiary of Allen Media Group. Around 50 TWC employees including production, engineering, and financial staff were laid off, and the television channel's budget was reduced to shift resources to the company's Internet and mobile properties.[21][22][23][24]. All original programming which was rebranded under the tagline Natural Drama now had direct relevance to weather-related subjects, and the network emphasized its promise to interrupt original programming either regionally or nationally during major weather events. This included a half-page national forecast for USA Today, for which TWC provided content until September 2012, when rival AccuWeather replaced the Weather Channel as the paper's forecast provider. Aside from location-based weather forecast information, the apps provided radar maps, and tropical and seasonal updates, as well as social media related functions that track weather-related Twitter messages and allow users to send Facebook friends severe weather alerts. As stated earlier, Molly Rosenblatt is a famous Television star known for Fox 25 Morning Meteorologist. Nobody stays on the screen forever, but TV stations don't usually promote or say when one of their employees decides to walk away from the camera. The Weather Channel Hosts and Meteorologists (Male) * No longer with Network. If they gave me absolutely nothing else, the Weather Channel was responsible for introducing me to one of my favorite all-time songs Last Train Home by the Pat Metheny Group in one of their Travel Forecast segments. Before that, she spent two years at WOWK-TV and WVNS-TV in Huntington, WV. In the fall of 2012, the Weather Channel began to assign names to major winter storm systems. Q. What's he up to now? I will miss you all dearly! [7][8] The Weather Channel licenses its weather data from IBM. During the 201213 season, the Weather Channel named 27 winter storms (Athena, Brutus, Caesar, Draco, Euclid, Freyr, Gandolf, Helen, Iago, Jove, Khan, Luna, Magnus, Nemo, Orko, Plato, Q, Rocky, Saturn, Triton, Ukko, Virgil, Walda, Xerxes, Yogi, Zeus and Achilles). wall. Prior to joining KHOU-TV as their chief meteorologist in June 1987, Dr. Neil Frank was the director for the National Hurricane Center in Florida. He was on during Spates normal timeslot. 1. During the late 1990s, as I flamed out of my college meteorology program and my passion for weather died down, so too did my interest in the Weather Channel. He was into the same things your friends and neighbors are into. In July 2012, the Weather Company (former owner of the Weather Channel) purchased competing weather website Weather Underground. [5][6], The Weather Channel was a subsidiary of the Weather Company until the latter was bought by IBM in 2016. Cell phone customers could also receive local forecasts from TWC sent to their mobile handsets via SMS by sending a text message with their ZIP code to 42278 (which spells "4cast"). This article appears in the March 2020 issue of Pittsburgh Magazine. 2023 Cox Media Group. NBC Universal also owned NBC Weather Plus, a rival service which was carried by and featured content from the NBC television network's local network affiliates; that service announced its discontinuation three months later. AT&T, like many large companies, runs back-office weather departments to aid its . Lee's last day at the station was in August 2013, and she moved to Seattle's KING-TV. The death knell for me and many other fans was when the channel was acquired by NBC in 2008. The actual value is undisclosed, but was reported to be around $300 million. The Weather Channel's first and most recognized logo was a blue rectangular box with rounded edges that debuted with the Weather Channel's first broadcast on May 2, 1982. However, critics of the Weather Channel insist it is a way to further hype winter weather, especially on the heavily populated East Coast. (photo via YouTube), Although she mostly sews clothes for work, Fox 26 meteorologist Lisa Vaughn puts together some special occasion outfits, like this costume she made for a Britney Spears concert in Las Vegas. (Photo via YouTube), Watch: Astros SP Luis Garcia debuts new windup after rule changes, Oops! See where they ended up in the gallery above. It shared channel space with, Carl Parker: On-Camera Meteorologist, Climate reporter, Storm specialist special coverage (1999present), Tom Niziol: 2012-2019, retired, former winter weather expert, Alexandria Steele: 2005-2008, later with CNN, now with, This page was last edited on 23 February 2023, at 11:41. The Weather Channel shares radar imagery and forecasts with the Weather Network in Canada, particularly for the Weather Channel's Canadian forecasts. Andre now works at WJW in Cleveland, while Bruce retired from WKYC in Cleveland. 8 sports director Mick Moninghoff talks with co-worker Kia Carter. Meteorologist Taylor Graham is leaving WQAD to work in Biloxi, Mississippi. On August 15, 2005, the logo was overhauled again; the logo became a straight-edged square with no white trim on the edge and "The Weather Channel" text became oriented in title-case and left-justified, similar to its Canadian sister channel the Weather Network. The channel also disseminated severe weather information, and photos and videos submitted by meteorologists and viewers, on its Twitter feed (@TWCBreaking, which also served as a hashtag usable for posts). Haynes, who quickly earned the moniker "Cedric the Entertainer," became a popular weatherman during his two-year tenure at KWQC-TV 6. [93] References to the names are generally limited on TWC-provided forecasts seen on NBC's news programs. [62] The Weather Channel said in a statement, "Dish has chosen to be the first distributor to drop the Weather Channel rather than pay the standard industry rates others in the industry have already agreed to pay",[61] and encouraged Dish Network customers to switch to other pay television providers. Here's a look back at the most viewed galleries of 2018 on qctimes.com. [25], In August 2015, reports surfaced that the Weather Company's owners were considering a sale of all or part of the venture, having hired Morgan Stanley and PJT Partners to explore their options. While Spates had worked at WLLR only the last four years, OHara said theyd known each other for more than 20 years, when they worked at rival stations. Here's some of my favorite TV personalites from the Western Carolinas area (including Asheville, NC which serves the Greenville/Spartanburg, SC market) of the past and present. When the HD feed was launched, none of the channel's programming was actually presented in high definition, outside of a national "satellite" version of the "Local on the 8s" segment; Epic Conditions and WeatherVentures became the channel's first two programs to be presented in HD, when they premiered on October 1, 2007. My last story on @kwqcnews will be tonight. Former NBC Weather Plus meteorologist Todd Santos joined the Weather Channel on May 2 of that year. The Weather Channel also broadcast original weather-related documentary/entertainment series and specials. This includes, but is not limited to, predicted snowfall and other precipitation, wind speeds, and the timing of the storm. Use Next and Previous buttons to navigate. Thats what drew people to him., BIG NEWS! Here are the weather details from the Natio. She celebrates her birthday on the 10th of November every year. Learn about careers at Cox Media Group. Weather Alerts. [78], The Weather Channel has provided the criteria behind their decisions to name certain storms, in particular Athena,[80] Brutus,[81] Gandolf,[82] Iago,[83] Khan,[84] Luna,[85] Magnus,[86] Nemo,[87] Saturn,[88] and Virgil.[89]. He jumped to the national stage when he became the weatherman for ABC's brand new AM show Good Morning America, which kicked off in 1975. Series Cast. 814 Eats. joined KPRC-TV in August 2013 as a weekend meteorologist, replacing Mary Lee. [30], On March 22, 2018, Byron Allen's Entertainment Studios announced its acquisition of the Weather Channel's television assets from the NBCUniversal/Bain/Blackstone partnership. announced she was leaving Fox 26 News after two years on the weather By Alan Pergament. 814 Your Home. While the news on the coronavirus front remain grim, Ma Nature is hel, A good Wednesday to all. These 15 men and women boast naturally telegenic personalities, biceps worth boasting about, Crest-whitened smiles and salon-perfect hair. A good Thursday to all. Previously, she worked as the morning meteorologist at FOX Carolina in Greenville, SC. John-Henry Perera is a food writer for the Houston Chronicle. Since the creation of the series Atmospheres in 2000 and Storm Stories in 2003, the Weather Channel had seen a gradual transition toward a mix of weather forecasting and weather-related entertainment programming that paralleled the launch of sister network Weatherscan, the evolution of the always-on "L" bar/weather ticker, the development of weather.com and popular branded mobile phone applications, and the increased viewing and interest in documentary programs on the topic of weather. "I don't go until December. While Verizon claimed it was a long-term business decision (instead of a carriage dispute) that it made, the Weather Channel launched a campaign, originally urging viewers to contact FiOS about restoring the cable channel and its services. After four years, Norman left for CBS42 in Birmingham, Ala. Don Shane, who anchored sports coverage in the Detroit TV market for decades, has died at 70. Showers and thunderstorms are expected to move through the region today. For decades, since the station signed on the air in 1955, the channel 8 news teams, headed by Paul Rhoades and Russ Van Dyke, dominated the ratings and the coverage of the big events in Iowa.. Kathy Orr. In no particular order, some of them were. It seems like channel 8, A good Wednesday to all. "We are sure going to miss those bad jokes, but we know you're going to continue to do great things for folks in the Cedar Rapids area," the station said on social media. Third-party web analytics providers Alexa and SimilarWeb rated the site as the 146th and 244th most visited website in the world respectively, as of July 2015. See what other former Houston meteorologists have gone on to do. Al Roker of NBC's Today began hosting a one-hour morning program called Wake Up With Al, alongside meteorologist Stephanie Abrams later in the summer. [9], The Weather Channel was founded on July 18, 1980,[10] by television meteorologist John Coleman (who had served as a chief meteorologist at ABC owned-and-operated station WLS-TV in Chicago and as a forecaster for Good Morning America) and Frank Batten, then-president of the channel's original owner Landmark Communications (now Landmark Media Enterprises). Additionally, she has hosted Wake Up with Al (2012-2014), Morning Rush (2010-2014), and America's Morning Headquarters (2014-2015). The proposed movie scheduled for the Friday after the deal was struck (May 28), Gorillas in the Mist, was dropped in favor of a six-hour marathon of Tornado Road. Sounds so simple, how could it possibly work? The l. His 36-year tenure at the station finally ended in 2008. Later in 2012, the Weather Channel's holding company changed its name from The Weather Channel Companies to The Weather Company. A good Wednesday to all. Linda Carson, Co-Host of Suncoast View, has been at ABC 7 for 26 years. You could tell that on the radio he was just a real genuine guy.. The channel's original format was similar to that of a news and information cable network. After four years at KHOU-TV, Brown joined KTRK-TV's weather team in 1976. Previously, Vaughn was doing the same work at Florida's WPTV and WJTV. Access to local weather content using the red button feature did not return until May 2, 2014.[70]. On March 10, 2015, Verizon FiOS dropped the Weather Channel and WeatherScan for their rival AccuWeather. In January 2013, he passed away at the age of 78. Skills: Avid, Adobe Audition, Radio Broadcasting, Meteorology, Broadcasting, Weather Broadcasting, Final. Lee's last day at the station was in August 2013, and she moved to Seattle's KING-TV. Nicole Mitchell is a broadcast and Military Meteorologist from the United States working at KSTP-TV. WQAD anchor Jim Mertens is leaving after 27 years at the Moline station. Instead of the sober, lo-tech and slightly geeky take on weather that the network used to specialize, we now have a cesspool of lame reality programming and ugly public disputes with cable providers. In which case, of course, your progress is a step backwards and downwards.Aldous Huxley (18941963), List Of Personalities On The Weather Channel, Jeanetta Jones (July 1986 - November 2006). The weather.com URL text was permanently added underneath the logo in 1999. Ive accepted a position with UpNorthLive as the Evening Anchor for ABC 29 & 8. News 4 Anchors & Reporters Jacquie Walker Don Postles Dave Greber Kelsey Anderson Jordan Norkus Jeff Preval Chris Horvatits Abby Fridmann Luke Moretti Marlee Tuskes Sarah Minkewicz Tara Lynch H She stayed with the television network until 2012, when she became one of the victims of the company's workforce cuts. In a memo sent out to network staff by Weather Company CEO David Kenny, it explained its refocus on weather-based programs was done so that "our most passionate fans come to us for the weather and the science behind the weather, not our original shows." After a four-year absence and with the channel under ownership of Entertainment Studios, Verizon FiOS inked a new agreement to bring the Weather Channel back to its lineups on June 24, 2019. TWC formerly maintained two versions of its mobile applications: a free version that incorporates advertising and a pay version called "TWC Max" that does not feature advertising, the latter was discontinued in favor of an all ad-supported model on January 6, 2014. Here's where reporters who left WIVB landed, along with other media nuggets. 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