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{{short description|American TV channel}}

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'''The Weather Channel''' ('''TWC''') is an American [[pay television]] [[television channel|channel]] owned by Weather Group, LLC, a subsidiary of [[Allen Media Group]].<ref name="Entertainment Studios" /><ref name="Byron Allen" /> The channel's headquarters are located in [[Atlanta|Atlanta, Georgia]]. Launched on May 2, 1982, the channel broadcasts [[weather forecast]]s and weather-related news and analysis, along with documentaries and entertainment programming related to weather. A sister network, [[Weatherscan]], was a [[digital cable]] and [[Satellite television|satellite]] service that offered 24-hour automated local forecasts and [[Doppler weather radar|radar]] imagery. Weatherscan was officially shut down on December 12, 2022.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Weatherscan - Termination of Service |url=https://www.nctconline.org/index.php/members/resources/technical-notices/item/1874-weatherscan-termination-of-service |access-date=2022-12-21 |website=www.nctconline.org |language=en-GB |archive-date=February 1, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230201131929/https://www.nctconline.org/index.php/members/resources/technical-notices/item/1874-weatherscan-termination-of-service |url-status=dead }}</ref> The Weather Channel also produces outsourced weathercasts, notably for [[CBS News]] and [[RFD-TV]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.nexttv.com/news/rfd-tv-connects-weather-channel-396626|title=RFD-TV Connects with the Weather Channel|date=January 18, 2016}}</ref><ref name=":0" />

 

 

In August 2023, it was announced that [[IBM]] was selling [[The Weather Company]] and its assets to the [[Francisco Partners]].<ref name="cnbc.com">{{Cite web |title=IBM selling The Weather Channel and the rest of its weather business|url=https://www.cnbc.com/2023/08/22/ibm-sells-the-weather-channel-and-the-rest-of-its-weather-business.html|access-date= August 22, 2023|website=www.cnbc.com |date=August 22, 2023 |language=en-GB}}</ref>

In July 2010, the Weather Channel terminated Bill Keneely, the last of the original on-camera meteorologists who appeared on the network's first broadcasts in 1982. In December of that year, the network also laid off on-camera meteorologist [[Nicole Mitchell (meteorologist)|Nicole Mitchell]], who later would file a lawsuit against the Weather Channel in 2012, alleging that she had been terminated because the channel's new owners disapproved of the time required by her simultaneous duties as a captain in the [[U.S. Air Force Reserve]] as one of the "[[Hurricane Hunters]]" team;<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.mdjonline.com/view/full_story/18857115/article-Suit-alleges-Weather-Channel-Star-was-fired-for-military-service |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130128125024/http://www.mdjonline.com/view/full_story/18857115/article-Suit-alleges-Weather-Channel-Star-was-fired-for-military-service |url-status=dead |archive-date=January 28, 2013 |newspaper=The Marietta Daily Journal |title=Suit alleges Weather Channel Star was fired for military service |date=June 5, 2012 |access-date=September 22, 2012 }}</ref> such reserve duties are protected by U.S. law (Mitchell later served as the chief meteorologist at [[Al Jazeera America]], which for a time also employed Eboni Deon).

 

 

However, for New York City-based forecasting operations (those utilized for forecasts on [[MSNBC]] and [[CNBC]], for instance), the former NBC Weather Plus forecasting, radar and graphics systems remain in place, with banners changed to fit the Weather Channel's graphics scheme. On September 10, 2009, the Weather Channel co-founder [[Frank Batten]] died.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.weather.com/multimedia/agreement.html |title=Video Submission Agreement |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091019134214/http://www.weather.com/multimedia/agreement.html |archive-date=October 19, 2009 |work=The Weather Channel |access-date=November 18, 2009 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|author=300 Interstate N Pkwy SE |url=https://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&source=hp&q=300+Interstate+North+Parkway,+Atlanta,+Georgia&um=1&ie=UTF-8&hq=&hnear=300+Interstate+N+Pkwy+SE,+Atlanta,+GA+30339&gl=us&ei=ZSIGS7nCH4mXtgfGwd2zCg&sa=X&oi=geocode_result&ct=title&resnum=1&ved=0CAgQ8gEwAA |title=Google Maps: 300 Interstate North Parkway, Atlanta, Georgia |publisher=Google Maps|date=January 1, 1970|access-date=September 22, 2012}}</ref>

* Alexandria Steele: 2003–2010, later with CNN, now with [[WANF]] in Atlanta

* [[Kait Parker]]: 2014-2016

 

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