It's amazing (and sad) that the #1 selling point for The Weather Channel back in the day has now been marginalized to barely existing at all. I remember when 3+ minute local forecasts were common and, at certain times of the day, would be shown more often than 6 times per hour.
Now, you blink and you miss it.
The local forecast is really all that keeps me tuning into TWC right now. The live weather programming outside of a weather emergency focuses so little on the actual weather. It's a lot of talking, a lot of hype, tabloid-style reporting (especially during "Wake Up With Al"), and more discussion about social media and interactivity through the internet than I care to hear about.
Even the larger LDLs would have been able to provide more weather information on a constant basis, but those have been thoroughly discarded by now (though, thanks to a glitch or two, I know they're still programmed into the Stars). Instead, most of the actual local weather information viewers can see is on the tiny LDL throughout the day. (Granted, the Intellistar 2 provides more information in the LDL than the Intellistar, but non-Intellistar viewers get no local information, unless they're lucky enough to live in a major city, in which case you get current conditions and a 2-day forecast if you can manage to wait for the list to cycle through.)
