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5 unusual facts about The Weather Channel


K50DB-D

It is one of two rebroadcasters of The Weather Channel using an over-the-air signal, the other being unrelated K34HO in nearby Willmar.

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Midas Records Nashville

The Weather Channel released The Best of Smooth Jazz and Smooth Jazz II compilations under the Midas label.

Weather Central

In 2012, Weather Services International, a The Weather Channel subsidiary, announced an agreement to acquire Weather Central.

Weather radio

(The first option is not available, or at least legal, in Canada, where Environment Canada's forecasts are under crown copyright.) Accuweather (through United Stations) and The Weather Channel (through Dial Global's NBC Radio Network) both operate large national weather radio networks through AM and FM stations.


Eric Marienthal

His music can be heard during The Weather Channel's "Local on the 8s" segments and his song "Big Country" is included in their 2008 compilation release, The Weather Channel Presents: Smooth Jazz II.

GRLevelX

Its usage base grew to include many television weathercasters, including by The Weather Channel severe storms expert Greg Forbes, as well as storm chasers, storm spotters, emergency managers, weather enthusiasts, and is often used within the NWS, itself.

James Spann

Spann was countering a statement made by Heidi Cullen, a staff meteorologist with The Weather Channel, who had written that those who disagreed with the view that global warming was caused by man-made events should not be given the Seal of Approval by the American Meteorological Society.

Jeff Lorber

Many of his songs were featured on The Weather Channel's Local On The 8s segments, including appearances on the channel's compilation albums, The Weather Channel Presents: The Best of Smooth Jazz and The Weather Channel Presents: Smooth Jazz II.

Local insertion

Local insertion on cable television is used especially on The Weather Channel in the U.S. and The Weather Network/MétéoMédia in Canada, where systems like the WeatherSTAR, IntelliSTAR and PMX have been used to show local weather forecasts (known as "Local on the 8s" on The Weather Channel in the U.S.) every ten minutes, and well as the lower display line (LDL) or lower-third graphic that is shown at other times.

Mark Mancuso

Mark Mancuso (born in West Newton, Massachusetts) is an American meteorologist formerly employed by The Weather Channel in Atlanta, Georgia and now with AccuWeather in State College, Pennsylvania.

Mixx

Mixx partnered with an online publishing outlets including CNN.com, USA Today, Reuters, The Los Angeles Times and The Weather Channel.

Norm Sebastian

After working as a meteorologist at Westchester County Airport in White Plains, New York, Sebastian became one of the initial meteorologists at The Weather Channel when that network launched in 1982.

Richard Whitaker

Whitaker is also the Chief Meteorologist on The Weather Channel, following his esteemed thirty-year career as a meteorologist with the Bureau of Meteorology.

Storm chasing

In the 1980s and 1990s, The Weather Channel and A.M. Weather were popular with chasers, in the morning preceding a chase for the latter and both before and during a chase for the former.

The Weather Cast

The channel was devoted solely to weather forecasts from across the United States, and was a direct competitor to The Weather Channel (owned by NBC Universal, Bain Capital, and Blackstone Group).

Weather Proof

Weather Proof is a non-fiction television series aired on The Weather Channel in the United States hosted by meteorologist Stephanie Abrams, special effects expert Newton Wimer, and narrated by Mark Avery.

WJFB

Prior to the digital television transition, WJFB aired programming from several different networks over the years including The Weather Channel, American Independent Network, America One (before adding the subchannel for that service, and then adding it again on its main channel), The Military Channel, ShopNBC and most recently Jewelry Television.


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The Weather Channel internationally

The Weather Channel was broadcast on the Sky satellite service from 6am to 11am (timeshared with The Racing Channel, Galavision, and Sky Movies Gold), which did not allow for the US formula to be reproduced.

Weather Star XL

The Weather Star XL utilizes the SGI IRIX Operating System with custom written software for The Weather Channel.

When Weather Changed History

In December 2010, The Weather Channel aired a week's worth of Viewer's Choice episodes at 8 p.m.

WHIO-TV

USAF meteorologist Warren Madden was hired from nearby Wright-Patterson Air Force Base; he went to The Weather Channel in December, 1996.

WTOP-FM

Previously, WTOP had used weather reports from WJLA chief meteorologist Doug Hill during morning and evening rush hours and The Weather Channel all other times.