Comments on: Weather Channel, Weather.com for sale

By: andHere

andHere — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 07:26:22 +0000

Broadcast and Cable also got Landmark’s CEO to talk about the web site

By: clickHere

clickHere — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 07:23:13 +0000

One of Landmark’s newspapers does a decent job of talking to several sources about the value of weather.com and other parts of the weather company - PilotOnline link is above

By: tdc

tdc — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 22:43:02 +0000

thanks to my friend “therichmondchannel” (aka chip mahaney) for the heartwarming financials.

WOW! $2 BILLION for a lil’oldwebchannel. you can buy a pretty substantial station GROUP for that kinda scratch.

By: Chip Mahaney

Chip Mahaney — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 21:11:53 +0000

Bloomberg article suggests The Weather Channel is worth $3 billion and weather.com is worth an additional $2 billion.

By: Rocker

Rocker — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 17:16:48 +0000

It’s a very desirable property…but $5B is an awful lot of money. Roughly what Dow Jones went for…so question: Is it worth as much as Dow Jones?

By: thom

thom — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 15:53:40 +0000

I totally agree with Anonymous. Time Warner was the first company I thought of (perhaps because of that the NYT article that talked about Bewkes possibly beefing up the Cable side of the business.)

With the weather.com traffic rolled into the CNN digital (or whatever they are calling it these days to get around the fact that it isn’t just CNN.com’s traffic), they would be clearly dominant.

Plus, both CNN and Weather are in Atlanta.

By: tdc

tdc — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 13:54:08 +0000

will be interesting to see some analysis on what portion of that “$5B” is for the web channel.

50%?

not too shabby.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 13:40:35 +0000

I’d imagine Time Warner would be interested in partnering The Weather Channel with CNN.