American television network
This article is about the TV network. For the outsourcing weather company that previously was called WeatherNation, see
AerisWeather
.
Television channel
WeatherNation TV
(branded on-air as simply
WeatherNation
) is an American
broadcast
,
digital streaming
,
cable
, and
satellite
television network
owned by WeatherNation, Inc, a subsidiary of Performance One Media and ultimately owned by
Robert J. Sigg
. The network broadcasts live and pre-recorded local, regional, and national
weather forecasts
and weather-related news, including periodic coverage of
severe and tropical weather
events. The network's studio facilities, along with its headquarters and
master control
facilities are located in the
Denver
suburb of
Centennial
,
Colorado
, sharing production facilities with sister network
Real America's Voice
.
[1]
History
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]
WeatherNation was founded by
Minneapolis?Saint Paul
-based meteorologist
Paul Douglas
in 2010.
[2]
Robert J. Sigg's Performance One Media in 2010 acquired the WeatherNation trademarks and brand from the original WeatherNation (which eventually became part of
AerisWeather
), a centralized weather service for local stations and web sites. Broadcast Weather also was hired to provide weather news programming for WeatherNation channel. In March 2011, WeatherNation, Inc. and National Cable Television Cooperative (NCTC) reached a long-term carriage agreement for a national channel for a second quarter 2011 roll out.
[3]
Performance One Media later gained full ownership and control over WeatherNation following a lawsuit against it in 2014.
[4]
WeatherNation would gain its first broadcast television outlet by October 24, 2011,
WHDT
in
Stuart, Florida
as its primary affiliation.
[5]
WIYC
in
Montgomery
,
Alabama
also started carrying WeatherNation that same month.
[6]
Further expansion of its broadcast affiliate body continued in January 2012, when WeatherNation added
affiliates
in
Minneapolis
,
Minnesota
(
KARE-TV
);
[7]
Little Rock
,
Arkansas
(
KMYA-DT
);
Fort Smith
, Arkansas (
KFDF-CA
); and
Springfield
,
Missouri
(
KFFS-CA
).
[8]
Many of WeatherNation TV's initial over-the-air affiliates were
low-power
and full-power stations that were not affiliated with one of the major broadcast television networks. However, from 2012 to 2014, the network announced piecemeal agreements with two major broadcasting groups to carry WeatherNation on the subchannels of network-affiliated stations (including one which expanded upon an existing affiliation agreement with such a station). During 2013 and 2014, the network expanded its distribution agreement with the
Gannett Company
, owner of Minneapolis affiliate KARE-TV, to add the network on the subchannels of its stations in cities such as Atlanta (
WXIA-TV
), Denver (
KUSA
), and Washington, D.C. (
WUSA
).
[9]
[10]
[11]
On October 27, 2014, WeatherNation TV signed an affiliation agreement with the
Sinclair Broadcast Group
to carry its programming on a subchannel of the company's
flagship station
,
WBFF
in Baltimore.
[12]
On January 14, 2014, WeatherNation launched on DirecTV channel 361 as part of a carriage dispute between
The Weather Channel
and
DirecTV
.
[13]
On April 21, 2015, Dish Network announced that it had reached an agreement to add WeatherNation onto its lineup, making it available on channel 215.
[14]
On August 1, 2018, DirecTV dropped WeatherNation.
[1]
On October 12, 2022,
Procter & Gamble
announced it would no longer air advertising on either Performance One network due to the overtly political programming of sister network Real America's Voice.
[15]
Availability
[
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]
Broadcast television
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]
As of January 2015
[update]
, WeatherNation TV has current or pending affiliation agreements with 35 television stations in 33 media markets encompassing 21 states and the
District of Columbia
. WeatherNation TV is carried primarily on
digital subchannels
of broadcast
television stations
and is carried on the
digital
tiers of select cable providers at the discretion of a local affiliate of the network in most markets. Most of its affiliates are full-power television stations; however WeatherNation TV is carried on low-power stations ? mainly through
translators
of full-power stations that carry the network ? in some areas. The national feed's carriage on certain cable and satellite providers is WeatherNation TV's sole method of distribution in markets where an over-the-air affiliate is not present.
WeatherNation TV affiliates, specifically those that operate a news department, have the option of breaking away from the network's programming to carry regularly scheduled programming from the station's primary feed ? particularly, programs carried by the station's primary network affiliation ? on the subchannel in order to accommodate
breaking news
or severe weather coverage, or telecasts of locally produced or
syndicated
sports events on the primary channel (depending on WeatherNation TV's subchannel placement and the station's carriage of additional subchannel services, especially those affiliated with a major network such as
The CW
or
MyNetworkTV
).
Although WeatherNation TV maintains a
high-definition
feed, its broadcast affiliates carry the network in
480i
standard-definition
in its default
16:9
widescreen
format
in order to preserve bandwidth to transmit the station's primary channel in high-definition; the HD feed is generally exclusive to certain pay television providers at their preference.
Pay television
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WeatherNation TV's national feed began to be carried on satellite provider DirecTV on channel 361 on December 16, 2013; the provider reached a temporary carriage agreement with the network while it was renegotiating its contract with The Weather Channel (which was carried on channel 362).
[16]
After DirecTV dropped The Weather Channel on January 14, 2014 due to the reasons behind
Dish Network
's planned removal of the channel in May 2010, the provider replaced The Weather Channel on channel 362 with WeatherNation,
[17]
which lasted until The Weather Channel and DirecTV struck a new carriage agreement on April 8, 2014 that restored TWC on channel 362; however, WeatherNation TV would continue to be carried on channel 361 until 2018 as a result of a long-term carriage agreement it signed with DirecTV on April 2, one week prior to The Weather Channel agreement.
[18]
On April 21, 2015, WeatherNation reached an agreement with Dish Network to be offered to its customers as a six-week preview, and then added to Dish's America's Top 120 programming packages.
On August 1, 2018, DirecTV dropped its carriage of WeatherNation, replacing it with the
AccuWeather Network
.
[19]
Over-the-top providers
[
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]
Pluto TV
added WeatherNation in December 2018.
[20]
References
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a
b
Stanley-Becker, Isaac (January 25, 2022).
"Steve Bannon was deplatformed. An obscure media mogul keeps him on the air"
.
The Washington Post
.
ISSN
0190-8286
. Retrieved
September 9,
2022
.
- ^
Samenow, Jason (August 18, 2011).
"An alternative to The Weather Channel: Weather Nation TV, interview with CEO Paul Douglas"
.
The Washington Post
. Retrieved
September 10,
2022
.
- ^
"WeatherNation TV Cuts Distribution Deal with NCTC"
.
Broadcasting & Cable
.
NewBay Media
. March 30, 2011
. Retrieved
March 6,
2012
.
- ^
"How Procter & Gamble ended up funding Steve Bannon's War Room"
.
Check My Ads
. September 9, 2022.
Archived
from the original on September 11, 2022
. Retrieved
September 11,
2022
.
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"WHDT Drops RTV For Weather Nation"
.
TVNewsCheck
. NewsCheck Media. October 27, 2011
. Retrieved
March 6,
2012
.
- ^
"WIYC 48 Drops The Country Network"
.
Montgomery TV and Radio
. October 6, 2011
. Retrieved
March 6,
2012
.
- ^
"Gannett's KARE 11, WeatherNation Partner for 24/7 Twin Cities Weather Coverage"
.
MarketWatch
. January 23, 2012
. Retrieved
March 6,
2012
.
- ^
"WeatherNation Continues to Add More Affiliates"
.
Yahoo Finance
. January 23, 2012
. Retrieved
March 6,
2012
.
- ^
"Gannett's WXIA Atlanta To Air WeatherNation"
.
TVNewsCheck
. NewsCheck Media. October 3, 2013
. Retrieved
December 18,
2014
.
- ^
"WeatherNation Launches On KUSA Denver"
.
TVNewsCheck
. NewsCheck Media. June 4, 2013
. Retrieved
December 18,
2014
.
- ^
"WUSA Enhances Its First Alert Weather With WeatherNation TV in Washington, D.C."
Yahoo! Finance
. April 8, 2014
. Retrieved
December 18,
2014
.
- ^
Ray Frager (October 27, 2014).
"New weather channel launches"
.
Maryland Daily Record
. Retrieved
December 18,
2014
.
- ^
Reynolds, Mike (January 14, 2014).
"The Weather Channel Now Dark on DirecTV"
.
Multichannel News
. NewBay Media, LLC
. Retrieved
June 30,
2016
.
- ^
Mike Farrell (April 23, 2015).
"Dish Network Launches WeatherNation"
.
Multichannel News
. NewBay Media
. Retrieved
May 25,
2015
.
- ^
"How Procter & Gamble ended up funding Steve Bannon's War Room"
. September 9, 2022.
- ^
Joe Flint (December 25, 2013).
"DirecTV issues veiled threat in talks with Weather Channel"
.
Los Angeles Times
. Retrieved
December 26,
2013
.
- ^
Todd Spangler (January 13, 2014).
"Weather Channel Pulled from DirecTV"
.
Variety
.
Penske Media Corporation
. Retrieved
January 14,
2014
.
- ^
"DirecTV Signs Multi-Year Deal with WeatherNation"
.
Variety
. Penske Media Corporation. April 2, 2014
. Retrieved
June 9,
2014
.
- ^
Kent Gibbons (August 1, 2018).
"DirecTV Adds AccuWeather, Drops WeatherNation"
.
nexttv.com
. Retrieved
July 2,
2023
.
- ^
Bouma, Luke (December 5, 2018).
"Pluto TV Adds WeatherNation & Combate World"
.
cordcuttersnews.com
.
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