Author Topic: Weather Channel has Movies (Read 22064 times)

chief-david · « **Reply #25 on:** November 10, 2009, 10:04:01 AM »

Quote from: HailHunter on November 10, 2009, 12:36:30 AM

I wish someone would come along with some money and launch "Weather TV: All Weather All the Time" You would be able to turn it on and within just a few minutes get a forecast for your region.

Something that doesn't show movies (especially movies that are only barely related to the weather), that doesn't have news on in the morning, that doesn't have any freakin' thing to do with Al Roker, and a network that would actually inform people with information rather than try to steer them in a political direction with propaganda.

many local stations are doing this.

MpLS has 3 local digital stations running weather.

You can get them over the air or on cable. Not Directv or dish

WeatherHost · « **Reply #26 on:** November 10, 2009, 02:32:47 PM »

Quote from: HailHunter on November 10, 2009, 12:36:30 AM

I wish someone would come along with some money and launch "Weather TV: All Weather All the Time"

Like I said a long time ago, NOAA should do that. NOAA-TV, just like NASA-TV.

SlowModem · « **Reply #27 on:** November 10, 2009, 02:44:56 PM »

Quote from: WeatherHost on November 10, 2009, 02:32:47 PM

Like I said a long time ago, NOAA should do that. NOAA-TV, just like NASA-TV.

That really is a good idea.

Someone that is good with words needs to come up with a letter that we can all mail to NOAA and our congressmen and senators. Maybe they just haven't thought about it yet. Or maybe they can't get funding for it.

HailHunter · « **Reply #28 on:** November 11, 2009, 12:52:02 AM »

Accuweather is actually what the Weather Channel once was, and what it should be now. If they had more money to work with, I could actually see them launching a legitimate cable network to compete with TWC. If it was anything like their website, I would certainly pick it over the mighty have fallen channel.

sam2004gp · « **Reply #29 on:** November 11, 2009, 08:53:35 AM »

Yeah accuweather sort of reminds me of a fledgling Weather Channel.

HailHunter · « **Reply #30 on:** November 13, 2009, 05:52:48 PM »

Perfect Storm I could tolerate because it was certainly centered on weather and one of the biggest weather events of that year.

March of the Penguins was iffy at best, but I could at least overlook it even if it was begrudgingly.

Yet, now they are going to be showing Misery on there??? I mean... What???

I look for any of the old guard remaining to start abandoning ship in the near future. Not like there is many of the old guard still sticking around at this point anyway. Can't blame them after the train wreck this network has become. God bless Kim Perez for sticking it out this far.

Mark / Ohio · « **Reply #31 on:** November 14, 2009, 12:14:57 AM »

So I tune into TWC tonight hoping to see Nicole Mitchell (one of the dwindling handful of reasons I still watch it) and instead find Kathy Bates in the movie Misery!

AAAAAAAAIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Brain damage......

WeatherHost · « **Reply #32 on:** November 14, 2009, 06:09:05 AM »

At least Alexandra Steele was on for a while last night before they went off the air for two hours or so.

SlowModem · « **Reply #33 on:** November 14, 2009, 09:05:14 AM »

TBS showed the Wizard of Oz last night. That movie seems more weather-related than Misery. Was Al Roker the man behind the curtain?

DanS · « **Reply #34 on:** November 14, 2009, 09:11:25 AM »

They recently ran that show here too and I sat down to watch it again for the 100th time. Yeah, that was Al Roker. Isn't it amazing what a little make up and lighting arrangements can do?

DrBailey · « **Reply #35 on:** November 14, 2009, 10:07:57 AM »

Quote from: Mark / Ohio on November 14, 2009, 12:14:57 AM

So I tune into TWC tonight hoping to see Nicole Mitchell (one of the dwindling handful of reasons I still watch it) and instead find Kathy Bates in the movie Misery!

AAAAAAAAIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Brain damage......

Come on Mark ,quit holding back

chief-david · « **Reply #36 on:** November 14, 2009, 12:54:07 PM »

this is story about the future of NBC- Comcast have have the controlling interest instead of vivendi or GE.
I think it shows that NBC is in more trouble than thought before.

http://www.startribune.com/entertainment/tv/70101072.html?elr=KArksLckD8EQDUoaEyqyP4O:DW3ckUiD3aPc:_Yyc:aUUZ

btw- the smiley blowing is brains out is very disturbing

HailHunter · « **Reply #37 on:** November 14, 2009, 06:29:10 PM »

Well alienating people who watch the weather channel (or just tune in to get the weather forecasts) sure won't be helping their bottom line

Mark / Ohio · « **Reply #38 on:** November 14, 2009, 09:32:38 PM »

Quote from: chief-david on November 14, 2009, 12:54:07 PM

...btw- the smiley blowing is brains out is very disturbing

Sorry about that Chief. Your distaste for it is not all that dissimilar to my thoughts when I tuned in to see the national weather but instead tuned in at just the right time to see a woman smashed in the head with a typewriter, a guy in wheel chair with broken legs get shot in the shoulder, the woman's arm catch on fire and then after a wrestling match with the shot and disabled guy dragging himself across the floor with one remaining good arm and finally the woman get bashed in the head and killed with what I suppose was a steel paper weight. Not the programming I normally choose to watch. Had I a small son or daughter and turned that on then I would have been more then just miffed.

That was no more what I was expecting to see on a "weather channel" then the icon would be what you was expecting to see on a weather forum.

You'd think I worked for NBC or something.

chief-david · « **Reply #39 on:** November 15, 2009, 05:50:08 PM »

Sorry Mark

Not offended...

just disturbing.

Usually smileys are cute

It would take a lot more to offend me.

mmorris · « **Reply #40 on:** November 15, 2009, 07:12:54 PM »

Don't you just hate it when you decided not to read a thread for a couple of days and you miss something

Still have the WC in my favorites on the remote but usually when I get to that channel there is never any weather on it or when there is its talking about the wrong part of the nation.

Mark / Ohio · « **Reply #41 on:** November 15, 2009, 08:28:26 PM »

Quote from: mmorris on November 15, 2009, 07:12:54 PM

Don't you just hate it when you decided not to read a thread for a couple of days and you miss something ...

For a nickel I'll send it to you in a PM.

mmorris · « **Reply #42 on:** November 15, 2009, 09:08:33 PM »

Quote from: Mark / Ohio on November 15, 2009, 08:28:26 PM

Quote from: mmorris on November 15, 2009, 07:12:54 PM
Don't you just hate it when you decided not to read a thread for a couple of days and you miss something ...

For a nickel I'll send it to you in a PM.

I'm a poor person that's why I'm hang out here in this forum

upweather · « **Reply #43 on:** November 24, 2009, 01:49:35 AM »

The latest movie deep blue sea , that had very little to do with weather also . it was the helocoptor that blew up the place not the storm...O.k. i watched it

But i agree with the general board on the WC not as great as it was it has to many comercials and some of them don't seem to even have a passion for weather..

port1 · « **Reply #44 on:** November 24, 2009, 07:14:36 AM »

Quote from: upweather on November 24, 2009, 01:49:35 AM

The latest movie deep blue sea , that had very little to do with weather also . it was the helocoptor that blew up the place not the storm...O.k. i watched it
But i agree with the general board on the WC not as great as it was it has to many comercials and some of them don't seem to even have a passion for weather..

Agreed. So, just "Wake Up with Al" now and check out Stephanie Abrams.

Henry

upweather · « **Reply #45 on:** November 26, 2009, 01:16:33 AM »

GOOD ONE ! The march on the penguins is repeating again this weekend

they must only have 4 movies

Quote from: port1 on November 24, 2009, 07:14:36 AM

Quote from: upweather on November 24, 2009, 01:49:35 AM
The latest movie deep blue sea , that had very little to do with weather also . it was the helocoptor that blew up the place not the storm...O.k. i watched it
But i agree with the general board on the WC not as great as it was it has to many comercials and some of them don't seem to even have a passion for weather..

Agreed. So, just "Wake Up with Al" now and check out Stephanie Abrams.

Henry

WeatherHost · « **Reply #46 on:** December 28, 2009, 06:41:19 AM »

The experiment seems to have failed.

Now if we could just get rid of the Babbling Buffoon in the morning.

HailHunter · « **Reply #47 on:** March 21, 2010, 04:25:52 AM »

They just never learn... The Weather Channel will now begin showing Friday night movies with the title of "A Flick and a Forecast." The sooner Accuweather gets a national cable deal, the better.

HailHunter · « **Reply #48 on:** April 30, 2010, 11:10:54 PM »

I cannot believe what I am seeing. There are people dead and injured in towns damaged and torn apart by tornadoes in Arkansas. A report was given earlier about a tornado reported on the ground in Little Rock, and the Weather Channel has a blasted movie on the air. This is outlandish, outrageous, and flat out pathetic. I am calling for a boycott to the Weather Channel in response to this flippant attitude towards the very reason that the Weather Channel is supposed to exist; advising and alerting people to potentially harmful or life threatening weather conditions across the entire United States. It is NOT to fatten the pockets of the executives and sponsors at NBC Universal by putting movies on and running them come Hell or high water.

You can also e-mail the Weather Channel (http://www.weather.com/interact/contactus/?from=sitemap) and NBC Universal (http://www.nbc.com/contact/general/) directly to voice your opinion on their ignorant and foolish tactics.

WeatherHost · « **Reply #49 on:** May 01, 2010, 12:14:23 AM »

I gave up on TWC a while back. I still flip to them occasionally, but nothing like I used to. With FatHead in the AM and more NBC news blips than radar blips, they're pretty much toast. I'm waiting for the cable and satellite companies to start dropping them.

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Author Topic: Weather Channel has Movies (Read 22064 times)