Dish Network to drop TWC from 214, carragie dispute

[Mike M]

Is The Weather Cast on anywhere else?

[Anistorm]

Is The Weather Cast on anywhere else?

Nope. it's gone. It's not on air anywhere.

[Mike M]

Well I hope their website remains online, I really like how it's set up.

[Evan2015]

I'm curious as to what they are replacing it with. Though it looks like someone (not trying to point fingers, and it's likely not from someone from this forum) has already edited the "National Feed" section of Weatherscan's Wikipedia article

A new Weatherscan feed is expected to be launched in 2010 for Dish Network subscribers, to replace The Weather Cast service that had been founded as a replacement for The Weather Channel as a result of a carriage dispute.

Not that I would trust Wikipedia anyway...

[twcclassics]

A new Weatherscan feed is expected to be launched in 2010 for Dish Network subscribers, to replace The Weather Cast service that had been founded as a replacement for The Weather Channel as a result of a carriage dispute.

That makes no sense. Why not just add WeatherScan to the lineup?

I just looked at the guide and it now lists the old Weather Cast channel as TWC2. Maybe they're going to do our idea of a second channel for people that are only interested in weather.

[TWCToday]

A new Weatherscan feed is expected to be launched in 2010 for Dish Network subscribers, to replace The Weather Cast service that had been founded as a replacement for The Weather Channel as a result of a carriage dispute.

That makes no sense. Why not just add WeatherScan to the lineup?

I just looked at the guide and it now lists the old Weather Cast channel as TWC2. Maybe they're going to do our idea of a second channel for people that are only interested in weather.

They are just adding weatherscan units everywhere

[Mike M]

How? I thought Dish didn't have headends.

[Jonathan]

A new Weatherscan feed is expected to be launched in 2010 for Dish Network subscribers, to replace The Weather Cast service that had been founded as a replacement for The Weather Channel as a result of a carriage dispute.

That makes no sense. Why not just add WeatherScan to the lineup?

I just looked at the guide and it now lists the old Weather Cast channel as TWC2. Maybe they're going to do our idea of a second channel for people that are only interested in weather.

They are just adding weatherscan units everywhere

Martin, they'd have to go in space and take care of that on their satellites. And then it wouldn't be local.

[TWCToday]

How? I thought Dish didn't have headends.

Weather Cast was going to use specialized broadcast methods to provide regional data. TWC will likely use the same or even (if Dish wants to foot the bill) do like they do with local channels.

Martin, they'd have to go in space and take care of that on their satellites. And then it wouldn't be local.

You do know DISH has locals right? I am not saying a WeatherScan for every city but strategically placed and layed out it wouldn't be hard to do regional systems.

Its a win win for everyone.
TWC brings more attention to WeatherScan (something they were planning on anyway)
DISH gets local 24/7 weather
Its CHEAP and requires no outside company and personnel.
TWC can keep doing its programming as is.
WeatherScan could probably even be used for the dual feed (can it already?)

[tpirfan28]

WeatherScan could probably even be used for the dual feed (can it already?)

I could swear that the Weatherscan channel takes the TWC main feed if something goes wonky with the box.

I can see doing a handful of systems - NE, Mid-Atlantic, South, Great Lakes, Plains, Southwest,  Mountains, Northwest, "LA" area.

[Localonthe8s]

How? I thought Dish didn't have headends.

Weather Cast was going to use specialized broadcast methods to provide regional data. TWC will likely use the same or even (if Dish wants to foot the bill) do like they do with local channels.

Martin, they'd have to go in space and take care of that on their satellites. And then it wouldn't be local.

You do know DISH has locals right? I am not saying a WeatherScan for every city but strategically placed and layed out it wouldn't be hard to do regional systems.

Its a win win for everyone.
TWC brings more attention to WeatherScan (something they were planning on anyway)
DISH gets local 24/7 weather
Its CHEAP and requires no outside company and personnel.
TWC can keep doing its programming as is.
WeatherScan could probably even be used for the dual feed (can it already?)

Even DIsh is capable of having this technology, would it mean that cable intellistars on DISH are possible in the near future as well?

[TWCToday]

Even DIsh is capable of having this technology, would it mean that cable intellistars on DISH are possible in the near future as well?

That I highly doubt.

[WeatherSTARIII]

They could try to launch a satellite for each city like what they did with the local brodcast stations.

[Eric]

They could try to launch a satellite for each city like what they did with the local brodcast stations.

Yeah, that won't eat into the profits at all. 

[TWCToday]

They could try to launch a satellite for each city like what they did with the local brodcast stations.

Thats not how it works