I am fine with having the replacement channel that actually covers the weather. I never watched The Weather Channel anyway for much the same reason everybody else is saying: they stopped covering the weather and spent hours with documentaries and even Hollywood movies (I'll never forget turning on the channel and seeing them airing "Twister". I guess there is a tornado in that one. Apparently Ted Turner wouldn't make The Wizard Of Oz available.)
The only thing that I miss is that DirecTV has what they called the "Active Channel" that has things like lottery results, horoscopes and used to have the current local temperature and forecast available 24/7. But the weather info was being fed by The Weather Channel. So now that TWC's gone, guess what else is gone. ------- Original Message ------- >From : David Lynch[mailto:[email protected]] Sent : 1/22/2014 12:55:15 PM To : [email protected] Cc : Subject : RE: Re: [TV orNotTV] TWC Keeps Shooting at DirecTV On 22 January 2014 11:52, Mark Jeffries <[email protected]> wrote: Interestingly, all of the comments in the above link are anti-TWC, one calling them "the MTV of weather." Hasn't anyone ever explained to people that advertisers don't want to buy time on cable channels that people only watch for five minutes or less at a time, which is the problem with every channel that tried a radio-style format (TWC, MTV, VH1, HLN, CMT)? Are you really that surprised that people are complaining about change? It's pretty much a global pastime. Especially after 25+ years of being conditioned to expect to be able to turn on TWC and see current weather information at some point in the next few minutes? It may not be entirely logical, but I think it's entirely predictable to think that they would have lost some goodwill from their loyal-but-undesirable viewership, particularly given how candid they've been about the fact that they're more interested in viewers that advertisers want than people tuning in to check the weather. -- David J. Lynch [email protected] -- -- TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- -- TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
