Weather Channel is an American pay television channel owned by Weather Group, LLC, a subsidiary of Allen Media Group.
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20 Facts About Weather Channel
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Weather Channel was a subsidiary of the Weather Company until the latter was bought by IBM in 2016.
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Over-the-air digital subchannels carrying Weather Plus have since switched to the similarly formatted The Local AccuWeather Channel, kept the Weather Plus engine, or switched affiliations to other networks such as This TV or the Retro Television Network; some have shut down entirely.
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From November 2008 to February 2009, the Weather Channel laid off seven long-time on-camera meteorologists: Kristina Abernathy, Eboni Deon, Kristin Dodd, Rich Johnson, Cheryl Lemke, Mark Mancuso and Dave Schwartz .
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In July 2010, the Weather Channel terminated Bill Keneely, the last of the original on-camera meteorologists who appeared on the network's first broadcasts in 1982.
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Later in 2012, the Weather Channel's holding company changed its name from The Weather Channel Companies to The Weather Company.
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Weather Channel purchased competing weather service and website Weather Underground the same year.
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Weather Channel provides forecasts for satellite radio provider Sirius XM Radio in the United States.
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For some affiliates, the Weather Channel provides a limited amount of live coverage during local severe weather events .
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Similarly, the Weather Channel provides weather reports for a number of newspapers around the United States.
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In July 2012, the Weather Company purchased competing weather website Weather Underground.
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Weather Underground operates separately from the Weather Channel and continues to provide its own forecasts, though its website incorporates some weather news and video content from TWC.
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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", and encouraged Dish Network customers to switch to other pay television providers.
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The Weather Channel fought back by airing commercials encouraging people to not subscribe to DirecTV by parodying the provider's popular "Get Rid of Cable" ad campaign.
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The Weather Channel offered a less expensive deal to Verizon FiOS, which rejected the offer.
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FiOS customers have enjoyed a bundle of services from the Weather Channel including the network, Weatherscan, On-Demand, a Weather Widget and streaming on mobile devices.
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Weather Channel had earlier signed renewal agreements with major providers that are members of the National Cable Television Cooperative, including Time Warner Cable and Cox Communications.
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However, critics of the Weather Channel insist it is a way to further hype winter weather, especially on the heavily populated East Coast.
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