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Rena Golden

Rena Golden (30 March 1961 – 20 March 2013) was an Indian born American journalist working for CNN and the Weather Channel.


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K34HO-D

It is one of two such Weather Channel broadcast stations, the other being K50DB-D, an unrelated station in Alexandria.

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.

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.

WRUF-LD

The station was relaunched as a commercially-based 24-hour weather channel on June 1, 2011; this came after state funding to Florida's public radio and television stations was vetoed by Governor Rick Scott in May.

WTEN

There is no on-air mention that WCDC exists besides in WTEN's legal identification, its EEO public file reports, and on WTEN-DT2 "News 10 ABC Storm Tracker Weather Channel".

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.