NBC to subtract WeatherPlus
Don Day October 7th, 2008
This comes as no surprise - but NBC says it would have happened even without the Weather Channel deal: NBC WeatherPlus will be gone by the end of the year. B&C says the NBC Affiliate Board, which co-owns the channel, said it wanted out. All the details haven’t been worked out yet - but the national digital network and website will be phased out by year’s end. No word on what will happen to the network’s talent - but NBC did say it hoped to integrate some of WP’s people.
6 Comments Add your own
1. Jay_Jay | October 7th, 2008 at 3:44 pm
Is this an opportunity for local stations to step-in with a completely local turn-key digital multicast weather station as a replacement?
2. Hussman | October 8th, 2008 at 5:43 am
I’d like to see some sort of digital replacement. NBC affils that signed on for the L-bar many years ago need to do something with this digital channel to give viewers something.
3. Danwx74 | October 8th, 2008 at 7:11 am
With NBC buying the Weather Channel, I would have thought that they would end up taking over Weather Plus and continuing the weather content. What happens now to all the NBC affils that have switched over to the Weather Plus branding? Think of all the promotion that went in locally to push this channel.
4. Rocker | October 8th, 2008 at 7:25 am
This turkey finally hit the ground. it was amazing they stuck with it as long as they did.
5. Don Day | October 9th, 2008 at 10:32 am
I wonder if WeatherScan could be used…
http://www.weather.com/aboutus/television/weatherscan/
6. Mike Montavon | October 13th, 2008 at 7:38 am
Is it going to rain OR NOT?
That’s all I want to know.
Thanks.
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