It's true--the Weather Channel is DEAD.
So much so that I originally CREATED this account just now to SAY so.
I remember back before NBC, AND before Storm Stories (yes, NBC is responsible for the majority of the ruin, so it seems, but Storm Stories, which came out before then, didn't HELP matters any), back in the 80's-90's, when I was growing up.
ALL THEY DID was show the WEATHER. 24 hours a day. And believe it or not, that's what people STILL WANT. Seriously, all they are now is the Discovery Channel REJECT-SHOW Channel--they can't even come up with shows that seem like they would even MAKE the Discovery Channel, and only make about TWO episodes of each one, anyway, which they show OVER AND OVER AND OVER.
All they do most of the time is show these pointless, over-hyped pieces about unrelated stuff like truck drivers, prospectors, fishermen, iron workers, and yes, even WIND TURBINE REPAIRMEN, of all random things, and they once even showed MOVIES for a brief stint. And what's worse is, like the reviewer said, they continue to show this senseless garbage programming EVEN DURING TORNADO OUTBREAKS.
It happened to me, once, even, during the 'movies' fiasco 2-3 years back--we had a tornado warning RIGHT across the river from us, at NIGHT, and were all scared crapless, and what do we turn on to...? A RANDOM MOVIE ABOUT YACHT RACES.
And even when they DO show the weather, it's almost ALL mindless hype about harmless stuff in 'famous' or 'popular' locations, while IGNORING ACTUAL DANGEROUS WEATHER in 'unpopular' or 'uncool' places.
Like they freak out about a sprinkle or a breeze in NYC or LA, or a similar place, but don't give an eff if there's a major severe weather outbreak in our area (the mid-south), and others similar.
And NOW, on top of ALL of it, they've gotten into the whole 'trying to be cool online' nonsense, and spend most of their live 'weather' reporting time ACTUALLY posting random cat videos, and/or people's generic, whiny tweets about it being cold/rainy where they live.
Seriously, give us BACK the old, 'boring' but KNOWLEDGEABLE meteorologists that only SHOWED US THE WEATHER, and the local on the 8's actually being in a timely fashion, ON THE 8'S OF EVERY HOUR.
WHY, OH WHY, is that so effing hard...? Seriously.
Couldn't agree MORE. The UN-Weather Channel shows everything BUT weather at this point, and it's not getting ANY better.
Now on TOP of the fact that they show nothing but mindless garbage-programming about truckers and the like, AND spend most of their very sparse 'real' weather-reporting time sharing people's random, generic whiny tweets about it being cold or rainy where they live, there's even talk of them DOING AWAY WITH THE LOCAL FORECAST COMPLETELY in 2014.
And since it was the original topic, let me tell you, people were dead-serious about the movies being shown a while back (they were since discontinued, fortunately).
As a matter of fact, as I said in comment to another review, the 'movies' fiasco nearly bit me and my entire family in the butt, hard.
It was probably 2-3 years ago that that was going on, and one night, we had a tornado outbreak in which there was LITERALLY a tornado warning in the next county over, RIGHT across the river, and we were all scared crapless. And just WHAT pertinent weather information did we find when we tuned into the 'Weather' Channel?
A MOVIE ABOUT YACHT RACING.
Fortunately, the warning was canceled later, and the tornado stopped just short of making it here, apparently, but NO THANKS to TWC's *MASSIVE* lack of service during an emergency.
