TWC Knocked Off The Air

[Doug_Kiesling]

Ok some of you will be jumping for joy but I just got a 411/911 phone call from a friend in Atlanta who heard the following.

TWC got knocked off the air tonight due to a power surge the fried some major electrical system.

Right now the computer local forecast stuff is running from what looks to be weatherscan.

But the report I got was that there was a very large bang or boom and then the live broadcast was gone.

[Josh Richardson]

Yep, your right I just checked it out after I saw your message(since I never watch TWC) and I see a message stating the channel is temp. unavailable. This is of course a DirectTV message but anyway....I wonder what it is exactly that happened?

[Eric Treece]

But first the Tropical Update...................

[Bill Tabor]

Well, all I can say is I hope this is permanent. :D

[Terrence Cook]

But first the Tropical Update...................

That tickled me....

Let's all hold a vigil and pray it won't come back on air.

[Paul Redmond]

Once upon a time I liked the weather channel, before changed its format and put on all this reality tv crap and that witch heidi cullen who flew in on her broom stick and started hitting everyone over the head with her global warming ugly stick. However, I digress, do not wish not offend, and offer that the twc is still fun at times, especially during tropical season and severe weather event discussions. Weather should be apolitical.:o

[Jon Person]

Explosion on the 8's

[John Olexa]

Well it's back on and there showing When weather changed history
the Flight 90 Air florida crash in DC....... for the umpteenth Time in the last 3 days

[Bart_Comstock]

I blame global warming for this disruption in their broadcast.

[Forrest lambert]

they need to stop showing fricking reruns, they are really ticking me off, when are they suppose to go off air anyhow?? anyone know?

[Nick Hartley]

I don't recall seeing anything about them being taken off the air Forrest.

[Jason McKittrick]

Man, I can't believe I am going to miss the 400th repeat of How Weather Changed History!:D

[Terry Kern]

I was distressed because I missed the lawn and garden report.

[Forrest lambert]

theres a thread here somwhere that TWC is up for sale for $5B so i didnt know when it was sold if it was going off the air...

[Justin E. Reed]

theres a thread here somwhere that TWC is up for sale for $5B so i didnt know when it was sold if it was going off the air...

No, they won't go off the air, this is just a big item up for grabs in a highly active hands trading Broadcasting market. The worth of TWC as a whole( websites, and all included) is about $5 billion. Landmark, who currently owns them, also owns over a dozen newspapers, and 2 local TV stations, WTVF in Nashville and KLAS in Las Vegas(both CBS affiliates). I've heard many rumors of Hearst-Argyle Television being a top contender for the purchase of all 3, if not, then just TWC. So either way, this is going to be a big, big investment for whoever buys them, hopefully it'll take them 100% HD, studio cameras and all.

[Nick Smith]

Here's more information:

Behind The Weather Channel Interruption

We now have an explanation for what happened at The Weather Channel Monday night/Tuesday morning, from this internal memo sent to TVNewser:

By now, most of you are aware that both TWCN and TWCi experienced a major interruption of service last evening and this morning. Here's what happened: around 10:45PM, a mechanical failure caused water to short out critical electrical components within our Atlanta building (300 Interstate North Parkway). The electrical outage forced us to implement a disaster recovery plan that, fortunately, we had in place as a result of a lot of hard work and smart planning on the part of our IT, Engineering, Production, Facilities and other teams. During the overnight period, we had a combination of a looping regional graphic product (similar to DBS locals) and long form on-air. Weather.com was operational, but had no weather data populating the conditions and forecasts. At 4AM, we began production of a simplified TWCN broadcast from our Earth Station. Through the next several hours, our weather systems came up one by one, and by 10AM, we were broadcasting from our primary studios and TWCi products were functioning. Our STARs became operational through the morning and early afternoon. There were many people who worked through the night to regain our ability to operate. My natural inclination would be to identify each person individually, however, the list is very long. If you were one of these people, YOU ARE DEEPLY APPRECIATED. It is yet another example of the level of commitment, caring and professionalism of our organization. It is nothing short of amazing from my perspective. Please accept our gratitude for a job well done. We also need to thank several external vendors/partners: our electricians (Inglett and Stubbs) who did heroic work restoring our power, our security team (Allied Barton), our food service partner (Sodexho), Liebert Corporation, ALC and Ascent Media. Please join me in thanking everyone for their heroic work!http://www.mediabistro.com/tvnewser/generalities/behind_the_weather_channel_interruption_75559.asp# email

[Bart_Comstock]

I wonder if they will try to make this into a over dramatized reality show? Maybe something like storm stories, the great atlanta flooding of 08. :p

[Gerrit Gulden]

around 10:45PM, a mechanical failure caused water to short out critical electrical components within our Atlanta building

Next on Storm Stories, Lead Forecaster from TWC causes a Flood of destruction with a spilled cup of water. Millions affected all over the USA, As Technical Crews cleaned up the flood 12 volt arc's lit the Atlanta area sky as people literally went into panic. Will the weather channel flood survivors ever recover? Only time will tell.

lol, I wonder how much damage (money wise) the water caused. Sucks for them. heh

-gerrit