DirecTV bumps Weather Channel's Jim Cantore from Dan Patrick Show
By Joe Flint
Los Angeles Times
January 28, 2014, 11:58 a.m.
http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/envelope/cotown/la-et-ct-dan-patrick-jim-cantore-weather-channel-20140128,0,7107804.story
Sportscaster Dan Patrick found his popular morning radio and television
show caught in the middle of a feud between DirecTV and the Weather Channel.
Patrick's show had booked Weather Channel star Jim Cantore to appear on
the show this week to talk about the forecast for Sunday's Super Bowl,
which is being played in northern New Jersey.
But that apparently didn't sit too well with DirecTV, which owns
Patrick's show and carries it on its own Audience Network Channel.
DirecTV stopped carrying the Weather Channel earlier this month because
of a contract dispute and the two have been trading blows in the press.
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Instead of Cantore, who has appeared on Patrick's show in the past, Paul
Douglas from WeatherNation, which is the smaller network DirecTV has put
in place of the Weather Channel, got the gig.
"We like Jim and thought, under the circumstances, that it may be a bit
awkward for him to appear on a DirectTV-owned show so we let him off the
hook," said a DirecTV spokesman, who added that Douglas can "help us
navigate through our weather needs for Super Bowl."
A Weather Channel spokeswoman had no comment on Cantore getting bumped.
Interestingly, Patrick's show is also carried by NBC Sports Network and
NBC also owns a piece of the Weather Channel. However, NBC has no stake
in Patrick's show. It licenses the show from DirecTV.
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