Weather Channel Local Forecast
ComcastWasBette
Enthusiast - Level 2

My friends who still have Comcast get local weather with The Weather Channel..........toms River.

Ever since switching To Verizon, we get Newark's weather.

Who cares about Newark, and how do I get Toms River weather again?

If my Comcast friends did not still get Toms River, I'd say it was a problem with the Weather Channel, but they do still get Toms River forcasts.

Can someon explain?

Re: Weather Channel Local Forecast
CharlesH
Specialist - Level 1

Local weather is not available.  You are going to get the weather from where ever your Video Hub office is...and yours is the Freehold VHO which delivers the Newark weather only. I hear the same thing from customers in Delaware getting Philly weather.

Nothing that we can do about this right now. =/

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Re: Weather Channel Local Forecast
robertf390
Enthusiast - Level 3

Hi - I live on Long Island and came over from Cablevision 2 months ago and have the same issue - we receive the weather info for NYC and use to receive info for Islip on the SD channel. On the HD Weather Channel, FIOS has the national detail which again is very different from Cablevision which had info for the NYC metro area.

I have heard from a friend that the HD local weather detail is in the works for sometime in 2009.

This is an issue for us on LI as the weather for LI is substantially different this time of year with seabreezes lowering our temps up to 20 degrees due to the ocean at its coldest. 

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Re: Weather Channel Local Forecast
ComcastWasBette
Enthusiast - Level 2

Robert, thanks for the reply.   We are an hour south of Newark, on the shore as well, so our weather is very different.   I hope your friend is right.

Charles H. employee............tell whomever you should tell that as soon as my year is up, I am switching back to
Comcast.  Nothing you can do about it now?  Robert here has more information that you have, lol

Yesterday I was put on hold for over an hour waiting for tech support in regard to another problem, and was disconnected before I got to speak to anyone.  I called again, was transferred another 5 times and was put on hold for 35 minutes until I hung up.  I don't have time to waste hanging on waiting  to be transferred to every single tech department you have and then hanging on for hours for support that I pay for.

You know, maybe it's worth the cancellation fee to get out of this now.

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Re: Weather Channel Local Forecast
jmcohen231
Contributor - Level 3

try using the widgets for your local weather, I believe they are zip code specific.

You can adjust the zip code under menu, then settings.

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Re: Weather Channel Local Forecast
ComcastWasBette
Enthusiast - Level 2

Hi, thanks for the reply,.

I've used the widget, it's pretty useless for my purposes.    It tells you the low/ high.........and that's it.

I need other info, but thanks for the suggestion.

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Re: Weather Channel Local Forecast
billymets
Enthusiast - Level 3

Widgets (ZIP 10309) for Staten island work ok, I get Staten Island weather  and traffic on widgets , same as Weather Channel  on TWC in SI. Wetaher Channel on FIOS is much different then TWC , as others stated here. so widgets do ok.

Maybe when FIOS 1 comes , it will have Local on the 1's like NY 1 and News 12. Weather Channel HD on both TWC and FIOS is not Local, but National in Staten Island, I don'tknow about Cablevision, he stated that Cablevision was local for Weather Channel HD

Also update on NYC PA Channels,. Staten Island on by the end of June according to NYC Franchise manager , right now Queens, Brooklyn, Manhattan, NYC and Bronx are all on FIOS, with Staten Island only missing.

If anyone provides an updates from the FCC in regards to MSG HD and MSG + HD . , please post here

Thanks

Billy

Staten Island NY

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Re: Weather Channel Local Forecast
MikeT
Contributor - Level 1
Can't you go to channel 119 for your local weather?  Since I switched to FIOS, my channel 619 is the HD weather channel which does not show the local weather, but my channel 119 does. 
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Re: Weather Channel Local Forecast
billymets
Enthusiast - Level 3
Yes I go to 119 for Local Weather , but it has more NY Metro on FIOS, rather than Staten Island which is on TW Cable (Ch. 72),. thats why I said the Widgets on FIOS is like the Weather Channel on TW Cable for Staten Island . Both 619 on FIOS and 772 on TWC , the Weather Channel is National HD, rather than Local . Maybe something was lost in what I said.
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Re: Weather Channel Local Forecast
ComcastWasBette
Enthusiast - Level 2

Mike T , if your post was directed to me, no I can't use channle 119.  It gives me Newark's weather, an hour north of my town.  I am by the shore, our weather can't be generalized with the rest of NJ.  Thanks for your post.

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