Comments on: It’s official: Weather Channel sold to NBC

By: phyllis

phyllis — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 13:11:49 +0000

I think MARGRET SHOULD BE FIRED FOR CAMPAIGNING FOR OBAMA AND AGAINST MCCAIN WHILE TALKING TO THE SENATOR ABOUT THE HURRICAINE JUST A FEW MINUTES AGO. NOW I KNOW WHY NBC BOUGHT THE WEATHER CHANNEL. I WILL NOT BE WATCHING IT ANY LONGER

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 17:52:20 +0000

NBC didn’t buy the weather it seems.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 08:49:43 +0000

Don’t they have a channel with rotting vegetables and meat or something? I’m just so not interested.

By: TR

TR — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 03:05:30 +0000

On the contrary…since with the TWC purchase NBC now owns WSI also as well as the Enterprise radar company I would think everyone that’s not an NBC affiliate would be looking at Weather Central or Accuweather as an alternative now…

By: SAM

SAM — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 15:37:29 +0000

wonder if this eventually puts MyWeather/WeatherCentral out of business?

By: Charlie

Charlie — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 15:32:55 +0000

new lead in for Fritz at KNBC:
“Now, with the Exclusive AccuWeather forecast, brought to you by the Weather Channel, and available 24×7 on NBC Weather+, here’s Fritz Coleman…”

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 13:21:23 +0000

The Weather Channel beats the cable news networks in the morning. Plenty of people watch. And weather.com is a hot property as well.

I’m curious whether TWC people will continue to appear on other news programs during storms.

By: Hussman

Hussman — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 13:00:39 +0000

No, say it isn’t so. The L-bar will be dead?

By: Brink

Brink — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 12:04:51 +0000

Does anyone still watch TWC anymore?

By: Amanda E.

Amanda E. — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 05:24:43 +0000

Nice to see NBC making an effort going after the 65+ and living in a nursing home demo.

By: Liz

Liz — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 05:07:01 +0000

I can’t believe that the weather channel is that lucrative, especially considering that you can get weather news on the internet so easily.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 03:40:53 +0000

Charles, I often see Weather Channel folks doing standups on other news programs during major storms. I thought their storm coverage was fine. They’ll even replace local inserts with extra info on the lower third so they can go wall-to-wall.

By: Doppler

Doppler — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 02:13:43 +0000

I’m with Tonto - they can say WxPlus won’t get folded into TWC, but I think we all know somehow, there won’t end up being an NBC WxPlus, and an NBC Weather Channel….

By: Charles

Charles — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 02:12:10 +0000

Hopefully this means more severe weather coverage. TWC severely lacks that. Anytime there’s heavy storms, snow, a rash of tornadoes, or the like, the cable news networks are all over the story while TWC gives you travel forecast conditions in Europe. Hopefully NBCU can turn the channel away from being the Forecast Channel and make it into a Weather Channel.

By: Tonto Weinstein

Tonto Weinstein — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 02:03:08 +0000

What’s that about if you can’t beat ‘em, buy ‘em? Watch as NBC promotes weather right out from underneath its own local affiliates.

NBC Weather+ is dead. There is no way it will continue beyond its current contract length because why would NBC want to compete with its new 3.5 billion dollar property?