Weather Cast to replace Weather Channel on Dish Network
National News: Dish Network Senior Vice President Dave Shull has announced that Dish will be dropping "The Weather Chsannel" after the contract expires in the near future and replacing it with a more weather focused channel exclusive to Dish customers called "The Weather Cast." This move is being made due to what Dish calls unreasonable rate increases and programming not related to weather like movies. I did happen to see The Weather Channel air "Misery" one night which I found odd on a channel that used to focus 100% on weather. This move may also be related to Comcast cable now owning The Weather Channel as well as other NBC networks like USA and SyFy. The new channel will be on 214 and another will be on 213 airing now with additional weather programming and local forecasts you can access with your remote like you could on The Weather Channel.Readers’ Forum
Hooray for someone who thinks like me. When NBC started interspersing some of their material here, Wake-Up with Al, and the documentary type offerings, along with Friday night movies, I cringed. That’s was not what I tuned to the weather channel for. I wanted weather. Cost cutting moves that did not serve the general public, in general. That’s all they were.
Louis Doutt - May 20, 2010 at 10:45 pm
I wonder if Dish Network will take any action with CNBC? Late this week CNBC (ANOTHER NBC/Universal Network) announced that it will be airing “business” related movies on Friday nights – just like the Weather Channel.
If I want movies I can always turn to USA, TBS or TNT. If I want business news I expect to see nothing but Business on CNBC and EXCLUSIVE Weather Coverage on The Weather Channel! Otherwise it’s just another useless Cable channel that plays movies!
Tim - May 21, 2010 at 6:43 pm
Well, Fox Business comes to mind. Dish could put it in one of the lower tier of programming like the Top 200 and give CNBC more competition.
Tom Lavery (URL) - May 21, 2010 at 9:59 pm
A few years ago when a long time weather personality named C. Lemke and later J. Lopez left the station you knew changes would come. At least you could get the local weather every 8 min.
The Weather Channel website is just as good or better than the TV info. At least I get loocal weather including the humidity. The local TV and radio stations here in the Nashville area do an excellent job when we have bad weather. This was proven when we had the devasting floods a few weeks ago.
Robert Jones - May 22, 2010 at 12:05 am