What the hell happened to the freakin' Weather Channel!!!!

[ditchdj]

I turned it on this morning to check out the weather for the road trip home. You know what they were doing????

Instead of weather, they had a newscast from CNBC about some blonde bimbo having an affair with a freakin' Corporate CEO!!!

What the hell does THAT have to do with the weather????

Oh well I guess you could say the CEO's marriage will be a little "stormy"????

[Rine]

It seems they are moving away from weather, sometimes.

Sometimes they don't even have the Locals on the Eight which irritates me because I used to always be able to get the forecast on the eights of the hour.

[bean]

You must have caught Wake Up With Al (Roker). Oddly, Al is on vacation right now, but I caught the same bit.

Definitely a bit less real weather coverage, but I love watching Storm Stories, especially when they have tornadoes. I (barely) live in tornado alley too. I sometimes fall asleep watching it though and wind up having nightmares about twisters.

Gotta get that advertiser money, and to get the ad money, they need more viewers... it's an endless cycle.

Here, if you catch it on SD, Local on the 8's works fine. If you dare to watch it in HD, you get a generic US forecast with the same music. Kind of pointless to watch it in HD except during Storm Stories though, especially since they seem to have switched to using a (crappy and dim) rear projection setup of some kind instead of superimposed/green screen images while doing live weather updates.

Catch HLN (formerly CNN Headline News) sometime when they're doing weather, they went way, way, way overboard.

[Irving Patrick Freleigh]

The Weather Channel is now owned by NBC. And all their reality programming sucks.

I don't even visit their website. I go right to the National Weather Service's site instead.

And I used to love watching the Weather Channel. I remember spending an entire Saturday afternoon in front of the TV instead of playing outside, because they had people live on the air from Kansas while a bunch of tornadoes were hitting. And I was watching them give their reports as sirens were wailing in the background and thinking "This is so freaking cool."

Now, all you get are stupid shows about how weather made the Titanic sink or something. Can't a guy just get the local forecast?

[draggar]

There aren't as many hurricanes so they're not in full alert all the time like they were a few years ago. Now they get all excited over a tropical storm even!

[RestaurantDude]

Heh... ...

[telecom_goddess]

nice....I telnetted to it and it's quick and to the point.

[Fire_on_High]

Coooooooool!

[ditchdj]

I'd MUCH RATHER rely on that for my weather info than the corporate-driven entertainment garbage they have on TWC.

[RestaurantDude]

Glad to be helpful!

[draggar]

The Weather Underground is a great site. IMO they even have better maps than NOAA.

[Jester]

And I used to love watching the Weather Channel. I remember spending an entire Saturday afternoon in front of the TV instead of playing outside, because they had people live on the air from Kansas while a bunch of tornadoes were hitting. And I was watching them give their reports as sirens were wailing in the background and thinking "This is so freaking cool."

Can't a guy just get the local forecast?

I would like to point out that the thing that made you watch the channel all day that you thought was so cool was NOT the local forecast.

Just saying.

Also, while I have no issue with what you did, I feel the strong need to point out, as someone who lives in Hurricane Central, that what you think is cool to watch when you are not there (tornadoes and hurricanes) is something that is not nearly as cool when you are watching it because (A) you are in the middle of it, or (B) it is bearing down on you and you are either about to be in the middle of it or think you are about to be in the middle of it but aren't.

That is all.

There aren't as many hurricanes so they're not in full alert all the time like they were a few years ago. Now they get all excited over a tropical storm even!

And the last "tropical storm" was a freakin' joke. Everyone going nuts, warnings, this that and the other, my apartment complex putting out written warnings to get stuff off your balcony because of the high winds....and the day of the "storm" there was no wind (not even the typical Key West wind) and almost no rain at all. Freakin. Joke.

[MadMike]

Same thing that happened to MTV, the former Music Television.

[Jester]

Sadly, the Golf Channel is still all about golf, Game Show Channel still has tons of lame decades-old game shows, and Lifetime is still Lifetime.

The good news is, the Playboy Channel is still all about pussy naked women. Unfortunately, my cable package does not include this last (awesome) channel.

[AdminAssistant]

Also, while I have no issue with what you did, I feel the strong need to point out, as someone who lives in Hurricane Central, that what you think is cool to watch when you are not there (tornadoes and hurricanes) is something that is not nearly as cool when you are watching it because (A) you are in the middle of it, or (B) it is bearing down on you and you are either about to be in the middle of it or think you are about to be in the middle of it but aren't.

That is all.

Um, this.

I've lived in tornado-prone areas all my life, and it's not cool or fun. Granted, I roll my eyes at a lot of the warnings and stuff, but...when it gets bad, it gets bad. With little warning. A tornado wiped out an entire town not too far from here.