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NBC Dropping Its 24-Hour Weather Channel

By David LaGesse

Posted: October 8, 2008

Yet another digital channel is going dark. NBC Universal is dropping the 24-hour weather channel that it broadcast for free on a digital "subchannel."

Local TV stations gained the ability to transmit added channels with the expanded bandwidth that comes with the conversion to digital broadcast TV. But nobody has figured out how to make money with the channels. Several ventures, including The Tube, have foundered before they found enough viewers.

More channels - with no more content

Content is king. Don't these TV bozos get it?

In my market, the CBS, NBC and ABC affiliates all have a weather channel on their HD-2s. What a waste.

16:9 of DC @ Oct 11, 2008 21:15:42 PM

Weather is 24 hours

Whether we like it or not.

And we really don't need another cable channel floating around the atmosphere somewhere with the hundreds--maybe thousands--of local "free" and cable and direct tv channels and radio stations giving their weather forecasts around the clock.

As for even more tv channels, I have never mastered the ability to view more than one at a time.

HillbillyBill of TN @ Oct 09, 2008 07:31:06 AM

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