Y'know, I can kinda understand what happened when NBC bought TWC. They want ratings, consistent ratings. But pure TWC ratings probably track our weather sites' hits pretty closely. Bad weather = more viewers/more page loads. I see it all the time on SLOweather. Nice weather, lower page loads, rain, high wind or heat = lots more page loads. At least in my case I can count on the vast majority of my viewers being local. In TWC's case, they not only didn't know when the next big weather event woould happen, they didn't know where, either. At least not enough in advance to sell related ad space or up the prices.
We rarely watched TWC unless either there was HUGE weather event somewhere, like a hurricane, or really bad weather in our area. Now, as I alluded to above, we'll watch Coast Guard Alaska if there's nothing more compelling on.
(And, I'm still startled sometimes when a TWC promo or Local on the 8s comes on. CGL is a show that I think of as on Discovery or something, not TWC.)
Speaking of which... Anyone wanna rant about Local on the 8s?
I don't know why they call it local. The closest locations mentioned to us are usually 200 miles away. Maybe they should call it 200 Miles Away Or Less On The 8s.