The Weather Channel Slowly Eliminating "Weather" From Its Programming - Sitcoms Online Message Boards

Brian Damage · 10-27-2010, 10:24 AM

Peacock Productions executive Sharon Scott talks in an NBC Universal video about the company's plans for the Weather Channel, which include a 13-part series about a "crazy" landscape photographer, reports the Hollywood Reporter's The Live Feed blog.

"And I say 'crazy' in a really, really wonderful way," Scott says. The Weather Channel will reduce the amount of live weather on the network, as Scott points out that viewers use iPads and other devices to check the weather. Instead, weather will be placed on a scroll during weather-related reality programming, the story says.

http://www.tvweek.com/blogs/tvbizwir...s-to-reduc.php

PlayOn · 10-27-2010, 11:39 AM

Another network down the tubes.

catlover79 · 10-27-2010, 02:10 PM

Figures.

Marvo301 · 10-27-2010, 02:12 PM

Just what we needed a network devoting it's schedule to "reality" programming! Wait a minute. Don't we already have 200 channels just like that?

catlover79 · 10-27-2010, 02:20 PM

At least!!

TV Knowledge Fan · 11-01-2010, 12:21 AM

...NBC/Universal had bought, say, "The Spaghetti Channel", and slowly converted it into the "Law & Order Channel".

catlover79 · 11-01-2010, 01:41 AM

I'm surprised they DON'T have a L&O channel yet. I mean, they have enough episodes from all the different shows for a 24-hour network!!! CHUNG-CHUNG!!!

howierules86 · 11-01-2010, 07:58 AM

I don't have to worry about this because there's a local weather channel on my Comcast digital cable system which does nothing but show the local weather with nonstop background music playing all day, every day.

yankeesrj12 · 11-01-2010, 10:57 AM

The Weather Channel has become useless, just like TV Guide Channel. If I need to check the weather, I have an app on my iPod, or I can just check the internet. Weather HD on Time Warner doesn't even have Local on the 8's, so it doesn't matter to me.

old grouch · 11-01-2010, 12:38 PM

We can always go back to the old fashioned way of checking the weather- looking out the window and reading the thermometer.

catlover79 · 11-01-2010, 02:32 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by old grouch

We can always go back to the old fashioned way of checking the weather- looking out the window and reading the thermometer.

Or stick your hand out the door to see if it's raining.

En-you · 11-03-2010, 11:28 PM

The Weather Channel has become useless!

catlover79 · 11-03-2010, 11:31 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by En-you

The Weather Channel has become useless!

It was obsolete before and now it's just plain useless.

10-27-2010, 10:24 AM	#1
Brian Damage I'm Rich Bitch Forum Icon Join Date: Feb 03, 2002 Location: What Ain't No Country I Ever Heard Of...They Speak English in What? Posts: 63,108	The Weather Channel Slowly Eliminating "Weather" From Its Programming Peacock Productions executive Sharon Scott talks in an NBC Universal video about the company's plans for the Weather Channel, which include a 13-part series about a "crazy" landscape photographer, reports the Hollywood Reporter's The Live Feed blog. "And I say 'crazy' in a really, really wonderful way," Scott says. The Weather Channel will reduce the amount of live weather on the network, as Scott points out that viewers use iPads and other devices to check the weather. Instead, weather will be placed on a scroll during weather-related reality programming, the story says. http://www.tvweek.com/blogs/tvbizwir...s-to-reduc.php
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10-27-2010, 11:39 AM	#2
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10-27-2010, 02:10 PM	#3
catlover79 God Bless Val Forum Addict Join Date: May 29, 2006 Location: Bewitched in Ohio Posts: 70,376	Figures.
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10-27-2010, 02:12 PM	#4
Marvo301 I'm NOT a Blockhead! Forum Celebrity Join Date: May 17, 2002 Location: The Great White North Posts: 21,452	Just what we needed a network devoting it's schedule to "reality" programming! Wait a minute. Don't we already have 200 channels just like that?
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11-01-2010, 12:21 AM	#6
TV Knowledge Fan Member Senior Member Join Date: Mar 29, 2006 Location: Long Branch, N.J. Posts: 2,577	It would be the same if... ...NBC/Universal had bought, say, "The Spaghetti Channel", and slowly converted it into the "Law & Order Channel".

10-27-2010, 02:20 PM	#5
catlover79 God Bless Val Forum Addict Join Date: May 29, 2006 Location: Bewitched in Ohio Posts: 70,376	At least!!

11-01-2010, 01:41 AM	#7
catlover79 God Bless Val Forum Addict Join Date: May 29, 2006 Location: Bewitched in Ohio Posts: 70,376	I'm surprised they DON'T have a L&O channel yet. I mean, they have enough episodes from all the different shows for a 24-hour network!!! CHUNG-CHUNG!!! Attached Images

11-01-2010, 07:58 AM	#8
howierules86 Member Forum Superstar Join Date: Dec 05, 2007 Location: Opelika, AL Posts: 29,462	I don't have to worry about this because there's a local weather channel on my Comcast digital cable system which does nothing but show the local weather with nonstop background music playing all day, every day.
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11-01-2010, 10:57 AM	#9
yankeesrj12 Member Forum 4000 Club Member Join Date: Oct 09, 2008 Posts: 4,335	The Weather Channel has become useless, just like TV Guide Channel. If I need to check the weather, I have an app on my iPod, or I can just check the internet. Weather HD on Time Warner doesn't even have Local on the 8's, so it doesn't matter to me.

11-01-2010, 12:38 PM	#10
old grouch Member Senior Member Join Date: May 13, 2010 Location: montana Posts: 1,877	We can always go back to the old fashioned way of checking the weather- looking out the window and reading the thermometer.

11-03-2010, 11:28 PM	#12
En-you Member Occasional Poster Join Date: Nov 03, 2010 Posts: 12	The Weather Channel has become useless!