Verizon has begun alerting customers that an agreement with the Weather Channel could not be reached… and, thus, the channel has been dropped from my FiOS TV lineup. Not only can’t I remember the last time I tuned the Weather Channel, I view its ongoing presence as something of an anachronism in this day an age. Although, apparently there are a number of people who do appreciate their on-air personalities and turning routine weather events into mass hysteria highly marketable content. Should you still turn to cable for atmospheric updates, in its stead, AccuWeather is now available (on channel 619) — as photographed by Parker below.
And, with this move behind us, perhaps Verizon can find the cash to finally add BBCA to the Preferred HD tier. ;)
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I saw this notice and thought, "What? No weather channel. Where would I get the weather?"
But as I thought about it, I realized that I had not watched that channel in years. Like many specialized channels then started to try to do other programming. Remember when MTV actually played music videos. It is amazingly frustrating to go to the weather channel to find out about the weather and have some reality TV show on.
Though, I think they really lost me when they started to name blizzards.
"I saw this notice and thought, “What? No weather channel. Where would I get the weather?"
I saw this notice, and my thoughts were more ominous. "Oh my god. What if Verizon knows something no one else knows? What if this means there will be no more weather?"
I had several One Passes setup on my TiVo for TWC. I guess I will need to cancel them now. They can't come to an agreement with TWC but they have no problem with the local sports channels and charging me extra money for them. Even though I don't watch them. I watched TWC more. But I can't opt out of those local sports channels to save some money.