Weather channel airing movies ??
 

Are you kidding me..Now TWC wants to air movies ? We all know here TWC is a far cry from where it started as went from a decent source to a HGTV spinoff to Good Morning America likeness. Now movies. Apparently trying to keep the general public happy and tuned in. While Dr. Lyons , Dr. Forbes and Cantore are great to listen too its gotten to be painful even tuning in these days.
Obviously geared for the general public it seems TWC is following the way of similar stations like History airing movies to survive. I guess this was inevitable.

Here is the article..

http://addins.wrex.com/blogs/weather/

Ah jeez. I was already annoyed with the travel and gardening stuff but movies? That is the dumbest idea that I have heard in years. I don't care if they show The Perfect Storm, Twister or any other weather related movies. They really will become the MTV of weather. Eventually, we'll have barely weather related game shows, music videos that happen to show rain or some other weather, home shopping for weather vanes...

I did have hope for The Weather Channel with their support of VORTEX. I guess they will have to start a Weather Channel 2 to actually show weather.

I can't wait until they have special celebrity guests do the weather. Maybe they will get Lindsay Lohan to do the extended outlook assuming they aren't showing Forces of Nature.

Bill Hark

They're gonna show "Deep Blue Sea" on the weather channel? Well, let's see, what would we rather watch, the local forecast or a 40-foot genetically modified mako shark sinking a laboratory and devouring everyone? Good god...

What does Deep Blue Sea have to do with the weather?! At the very least they could have aired movies like Atomic Twister and then commented on all the inaccuracies.

Agreed.
But when weather is less -how can one say this delicately- less 'exciting; they need something to sell advertizing. Or else they face going off the air all together. Heckuva choice for them to make; one would think they would play weather-related movies. Uhhh - come to think of it there aren't many movies that have a weather related genre.
Maybe a Disney flick?
(rolls eyes ;})

The beginning of the end for the TWC...




Or had that already begun about 5 years ago?

Pretty pathetic.

As with all the other subject-specific channels they too are losing focus on their primary goal. I can't put into words my disappointment any better than this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2yqUpypQwGs

You are my hero!!!! I LOVED that saying when I was a kid, would say it like 20 times a day :D

In regards to TWC :sigh: I just don't care anymore. When I was a kid I would look to them for the local on the 8's and that is it. The last REAL coverage I have seen from them was 1999.... when the Arkansas outbreak and May 3rd outbreak was taking place. Then I started finding sites online to get my radar (Also I live in the city with one of the best meteorologists in the world) so my dependency on TWC waned majorly. I have Direct TV at one of my houses so I never get the TRUE local on the 8's anymore. I know they did great coverage on the Wyoming tornado that I (and I am sure 95% of you) saw in person. If it is a slow night at home and they are showing a weather movie, I would probably watch it. I realized TWC turned into TEBWC (The Everything But Weather Channel) years ago.

TWC is becoming like MTV (aka lack of Music videos and weather information) Next they will have reality tv shows :/

I have fond memories of watching TWC as a child in Florida with John Hope giving hurricane updates along with great live reporting. I still do find their live reporting, but on a regular day the network serves no purpose to me.

Sheesh, sometimes the FARK headlines write themselves.