The Local on the 8s or Local Forecast is the portion of programming where viewers see current weather conditions and local weather forecasts for their respective area on The Weather Channel in the United States. The name comes from the timing of the segment, as the times it airs end in, 8 (such as 9:18, 9:28, etc.)
Before the implementation took place in mid-1995, the forecast was seen either every five minutes or 8 times an hour at various times (more in the morning and less at night). The name was introduced on 21 April 1996 to coincide with a sweeping revamp of the channels presentation. The Weather Channel filed for a trademark on the name on 24 June 1997. The name has caused confusion in the New York area with CBS Corporation properties WCBS-TV and WCBS AM, as the properties use a similar slogan, traffic and weather on the 8s.
Forecasts are generated by a Weather Star machine. The machines are installed in a headend and receive the information from the vertical blanking interval of the TWC video feed and from data transmitted on satellite. The information is then inserted over the TWC feed with local insertion technologies.
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The Weather Channel provides forecasts for the Sirius XM Radio satellite radio services in the United States. Both services run regional forecasts on one station and have a block of combined local weather and traffic stations for major metropolitan areas.
TWC also has content partnerships with a number of local radio stations in the USA to provide local forecasts, using announcers separate from the TV service. For some affiliates, TWC actually provides a limited amount of live coverage during local severe weather (with the Georgia-based announcers connected via ISDN). Distribution of TWC radio content is currently handled by Dial Global. Similarly, TWC also provides weather reports for a number of US newspapers, including a half-page national forecast for USA Today.
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Over the years, attempts to broadcast international versions of TWC (apart from Canada’s The Weather Network/MeteoMedia and the Australian version of the Weather Channel) have failed. TWC also operates websites for online localized forecasts in Brazil, France, Germany, India, Latin America, and the United Kingdom, but some of these sites appear to have not been developed further since 2003. The Weather Channel also shares radar and forecasts with The Weather Network, particularly for the Weather Channel’s Canadian forecasts.
A UK version of The Weather Channel ran from September 1, 1996 to January 30, 1998, when it was closed due to low viewership. It timeshared with Sky Movies Gold/Sky Box Office 2, The Racing Channel, and Galavision, airing five hours a day.
TWC also ran The Weather Channel Latin America, which operated in Spanish in Mexico, Puerto Rico and South America; this network ceased operations in December 2002. The service’s three original anchors were Paola Elorza, Sal Morales, and Mari Carmen Ramos; they left the channel within a year of its launch and went on to work for Univision in Miami, Telemundo in Los Angeles, and CNN International, respectively. At one point, there was also a Portuguese version in Brazil.
For more information about The Weather Channel, including your local forcast please visit the following websites.
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