If I am not on line, and my phone signal is spotty at home, I’m leaving in the morning quick like and I honestly don’t want to wait for “Local on the 8’s” to get me a quick forecast or tell me the tpr. outside. And I sure don’t want to watch their shows. (Ok, sometimes) But now they get it. The tpr. is always at the bottom of the screen, an abbreviated forecast–I mean, isn’t that what the Weather Channel is for? This is good.
Back when I actually still used the TV channel, they always had that thing at the bottom. Are you saying they had removed it?
Or have they made it better, showing all the info at once instead of just a few bits at a time in a non-scrolling ticker?
Yeah, that info has been at the bottom of the screen on the weather channel for as far back as I can remember. I still wait for “Local on the 8s” because of the more detailed info.
I thought they were all music videos now.
Sitcoms. That is, antireality shows.
I don’t know what weather channel you people have watching, but they haven’t done any of that for ages. Their idea of local seems to be a region 10 states wide, which is fuck all useless to me when I’m trying to decide if I’m going to need an umbrella when I go out.
Are you watching the high-definition feed? The standard feed has it, but the hi-def didn’t. Maybe they finally fixed that. Standard has good local, hi-def had the expanded area.
I have been watching the hi-def channel, but I’ve switched to the standard feed just to check and yep, it’s the exact same program just with slightly poorer quality video.
Maybe the lack of local coverage is meant to be a punishment because the ratings from my broadcast area have been poor? Or more highly populated areas get the good stuff that the rest of us don’t deserve?
People turn on the TV to determine the weather? In 2013?
On tv? Bullcrap channel. I can remember when it was all taking heads of weather information and not crappy programs filling time. I want to see radar maps, satellite maps, the weather maps with lines and arrows and a talking head saying what the gulf stream is doing. I don’t want to try and see a line of print while watching worlds most scary avalanches. I don’t see why I need to go to the internet to find weather maps to see what is rolling its way eastwards towards me, what is that channel on cable for? What do I pay whatever prorated portion of my cable bill for? I can watch mocumentaries on weather on Syfy Channel and get bonus spiders thrown in for my viewing pleasure.
I know that with UVerse, I don’t get the local weather on the weather channel. There’s something about the setup that requires either TWC or UVerse to install extra hardware to support the location information, and each side claims it’s the other’s responsibility.
That must be it then, because I have AT$T as well. Thank you,** Digital.**
Here’s an old discussionon the issue.
It looks like they just launched an interactive app for us, though. I haven’t tried it yet.
It also depends on who your provider is. Time Warner Cable for the Charlotte area has the scroll on the bottom, and proper Local on the 8s. Dish Network does not. My hypothesis is that the 10 state summary is what the Weather Channel sends out, and your local provider, using local weather information, overrides that with information specific to your area.
Since Dish does not have a true local presence, they do not have a proper Local on the 8s.
The Weather Channel in the DC area, at least on Verizon, hasn’t had a local on the 8’s in years. They just show a quick look at many of the different cities in the US. Oddly enough they don’t show even that for the DC area.
Please pardon my pedantry, but it is “Local on the 8s”; there is no apostrophe between the 8 and the s.
I suspect Maus Magill is correct. At home in Central NJ, I get the Local on the 8s feed specifically for my township, but when I travel to, say, DC or Dallas, it is regional weather, which is not nearly as useful if you ask me.
I wonder whether it’s because cable companies, in exchange for their monopoly, have to provide a local service such as the Public Access channel. FIOS and satellite do not.
I did a test. I have FiOS in the NY metro market (though I had the same results with TWC when I had them). The HD channel has a regional forecast. The SD channel has a proper New York City forecast.
That’s the way it works for us on RCN in the Boston metro area.
It’s why we still watch the SD channel.
Though their recent improvements to the Local on the 8s removed the narration for the day forecast, which I really miss. It helped me know when to pay attention, and if I didn’t have my glasses on I could still find out today’s forecast.
My understanding is that the local Weather on the 8s (and, more recently, the local weather info in the crawl at the bottom of the screen) is added in by a computer system at the local cable facility (and, thus, your cable company has to pony up to buy and install said computer system). If you’re watching TWC on a feed that doesn’t have that system installed (including watching via satellite), you get the regional summaries during that segment.
We have Comcast, in suburban Chicago. Up until a month or so ago, we were in the same boat (local Weather on the 8s showed up on SD, but not HD). Then, the local Comcast facility must’ve gotten a new version of that computer hardware, because we now get the local weather on HD, as well.