The Weather Channel

[popo79941]

I hate AccuWeather.......how come customers did not have a choice or a vote to keep The Weather Channel???? AccuWeather stinks, there are no REAL stories nor do the show any weather people out in the field......this is the worst, I watch the weather channel everyday. I might just think about changing my service to someone who has The Weather Channel!!! I hate this.....ugh !

[jonesmagicfan]

So, what does The Weather Channel services cost Verizon?  Oh, about 14 cents ($0.14) per subscriber per month.

So, are we valued customers?  We are not worth 14 cents a month!

Verizon, please bring back the Weather Channel.  Your "valued" customers demand it!  I would even support an increase of my bill to cover the cost (14 cents).

Bring back the Weather Channel!

[joker211]

WELL I just got a letter from FIOS saying the WEATHER CHANNEL IS DELETED FROM FIOS.

So to me the fight is over.  Why would FIOS spend money to mail letters if they were going to try to get the channel back?

Sigh.

Millions of letters at $ .48

[#4]

I believe they mailed letters to those people who don't have email addresses.  My mother also got a letter this week (she has no internet access), but I received an email March 10.  We need to continue letting them know we want TWC and all its services back.  I call them weekly and I believe they are beginning to listen.  If we become complacent, it will not return.  TWC is an essential service for me and my family and if it isn't returned in a reasonable amount of time, our family and my mother will be returning to Comcast.  Please Verizon, we have tried Accuweather and it in no way is a replacement for TWC.  Please return TWC and all its services to your FIOS TV lineup.

[Rocky18]

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@joker211 wrote:

WELL I just got a letter from FIOS saying the WEATHER CHANNEL IS DELETED FROM FIOS.

So to me the fight is over.  Why would FIOS spend money to mail letters if they were going to try to get the channel back?

Sigh.

Millions of letters at $ .48

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Joker

       The fight is never over. This is why we are the laughing stock of the world, things get tough and we walk the other way.

[tinkercat]

I just wonder how much money Verizon is saving once everyone drops them!!  Will it be worth it, Verizon, when you lose millions of customers because of poor business decisions?  

[frankc1200]

Enough already!! People want this channel back. Save money elsewhere for channels no one watches. At $.14 per sub times 5.6MM subs is $784k per month in Verizon's pockets and many of us "customers" are getting the shaft by not having this channel.

[frankc1200]

So the number of subs that would need to drop (at a avg montly price of $250) is just over 3,000 subs for it to impact the overall revenue number.

[frankc1200]

http://thevane.gawker.com/accuweather-slams-the-nws-for-missing-a-tornado-accuwea-1694135023 AccuWeather Slams the NWS for Missing a Tornado AccuWeather Didn't Cover The National Weather Service failed to issue a tornado warning in Moore, Oklahoma, when a preliminary EF-1 tornado made a mess of the town for the sixth time in as many years on Wednesday. AccuWeather wasted no time blasting the agency for its failure while trumpeting their own success in warning clients twelve minutes before the storm struck. There's only one problem—their brand new television network didn't cover the storm, either.....

[plumbago]

A big storm outside right now and I've spent an hour trying to find a decent radar map online. My computer is slow and I do not have a smart phone. We need The Weather Channel! You at Verizon might think that the 1,500 comments here on this forum show that only a small percent of your customers want The Weather Channel back. But the fact is, finding this forum and then figuring out how to access it is a real chore and your frustrated non-techie customers are not represented here on this forum at all because...THEY ARE NOT TECHIE. There are many customers that do not access weather from computers or smart phones, and TV is their main source of information. To say that "everyone" uses online weather now and nobody watches The Weather Channel, well Verizon, that is not true or realistic. For one thing, a whole generation of people are being ignored...the majority of the over 65 crowd do not use online weather or online anything, and probably never will. THEY ARE NOT DEAD YET, and there will be another 10 - 25 years left before they are all gone. So removing The Weather Channel and justifying it by saying everyone is online, is wrong. And please do not keep telling us that you gave us AccuWeather and that we should be satisfied with that. We have given AccuWeather a fair try and it is worthless. It does not give weather information that will keep your customers safe. It doesn't even report weather about our region of the country. I truly believe that Verizon customers are at greater risk of death and injury from the lack of quick access to good weather reporting. We should be able to push the remote button and instantly get to life saving weather information. I have also tried to talk to Verizon customer service on the phone about these issues and asked them to relay my issues to a department that will make my concerns known to management. But I can tell that those front line customer service employees are told to give the "everyone does online weather" sales pitch, and the "AccuWeather is better" sales pitch, then they try to end the call.

P.S. - Verizon, ARE YOU LISTENING? CAN YOU HEAR ME NOW?

[SinCara]

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@plumbago wrote:

A big storm outside right now and I've spent an hour trying to find a decent radar map online. My computer is slow and I do not have a smart phone. We need The Weather Channel! You at Verizon might think that the 1,500 comments here on this forum show that only a small percent of your customers want The Weather Channel back. But the fact is, finding this forum and then figuring out how to access it is a real chore and your frustrated non-techie customers are not represented here on this forum at all because...THEY ARE NOT TECHIE. There are many customers that do not access weather from computers or smart phones, and TV is their main source of information. To say that "everyone" uses online weather now and nobody watches The Weather Channel, well Verizon, that is not true or realistic. For one thing, a whole generation of people are being ignored...the majority of the over 65 crowd do not use online weather or online anything, and probably never will. THEY ARE NOT DEAD YET, and there will be another 10 - 25 years left before they are all gone. So removing The Weather Channel and justifying it by saying everyone is online, is wrong. And please do not keep telling us that you gave us AccuWeather and that we should be satisfied with that. We have given AccuWeather a fair try and it is worthless. It does not give weather information that will keep your customers safe. It doesn't even report weather about our region of the country. I truly believe that Verizon customers are at greater risk of death and injury from the lack of quick access to good weather reporting. We should be able to push the remote button and instantly get to life saving weather information. I have also tried to talk to Verizon customer service on the phone about these issues and asked them to relay my issues to a department that will make my concerns known to management. But I can tell that those front line customer service employees are told to give the "everyone does online weather" sales pitch, and the "AccuWeather is better" sales pitch, then they try to end the call.

P.S. - Verizon, ARE YOU LISTENING? CAN YOU HEAR ME NOW?

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You choose not to buy a smart phone, you choose not to get a faster computer. You can't blame Verizon when there are options that you could be doing to fix the situation yourself. You shouldn't be relying on TWC. An option is to simply switch providers and go to one that has what you want.

[plumbago]

SinCara - We all pay big dollars for our Verizon FIOS service. I don't need to spend big dollars on a new phone just so I can get weather information that I was previously getting from my TV service. Verizon has the capibility to provide good weather programming for it's customers and they choose to have a low quality weather channel with worthless information (unless you live in the northeast , as everyone keeps saying). So why is it that Verizon wants everyone to search elsewhere for weather information, phones, computers, weather radio, look out the window, etc., when we can simply push a button and get quality weather information from The Weather Channel or channel 49 with our Verizon service. It makes sense to have many options, and getting good weather programming on TV from TWC is one option that is easy to access and that many Verizon customers want. It doesn't make sense to have such low quality weather programming as AccuWeather on such a high quality service as Verizon. It almost seems like someone higher up at Verizon has a personal financial investment in AccuWeather. We love our Verizon service in every other way and would hate to switch to another service. Verizon seems to strive for good quality in every other way, but they choose to have very low quality weather programming. It makes no sense.

[CRobGauth]

Verizon is not saying you have to upgrade your phone.

Obviously, everyone posting here has Internet access.
Therefore, you can get weather other places.

Verizon made a business decision that the cost of TWC was not worth it based on the number of people acutally watching.

BTW, the cost to Verizon is not just the low per subscriber costs that keep getting quoted.

There are costs to connect to TWC for the channel as well.

People have stated they will pay more.

But that is only those that have stated they miss the channel.

How many people will be on the board if prices go up and it is said to be because of costs to provide TWC?

Yes, we all want a la carte, but that is a ways off.
For now, if your service provider doesn't provide the channels you want at the price you are willing to pay, then your only option is to switch.

[tiara320]

Not in a Severe Storm when the Power goes out all the time!!! We just had a Major Flood Storm Sunday, May 31st, In my opionion it was worst than Sandy in my area! 

[SinCara]

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@plumbago wrote:

SinCara - We all pay big dollars for our Verizon FIOS service. I don't need to spend big dollars on a new phone just so I can get weather information that I was previously getting from my TV service. Verizon has the capibility to provide good weather programming for it's customers and they choose to have a low quality weather channel with worthless information (unless you live in the northeast , as everyone keeps saying). So why is it that Verizon wants everyone to search elsewhere for weather information, phones, computers, weather radio, look out the window, etc., when we can simply push a button and get quality weather information from The Weather Channel or channel 49 with our Verizon service. It makes sense to have many options, and getting good weather programming on TV from TWC is one option that is easy to access and that many Verizon customers want. It doesn't make sense to have such low quality weather programming as AccuWeather on such a high quality service as Verizon. It almost seems like someone higher up at Verizon has a personal financial investment in AccuWeather. We love our Verizon service in every other way and would hate to switch to another service. Verizon seems to strive for good quality in every other way, but they choose to have very low quality weather programming. It makes no sense.

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There are smart phones for $50 or less sold at walmart so saying big dollars on a phone isn't accurate. You choose not to buy something else to get the information you want. Verizon has a choice to carry whatever they please just like we as consumers have a right to do business with whatever cable provider we choose. No one forces us to stick with them and if we aren't happy then coming here on a peer to peer forum isn't going to solve any issues or bring the channel back. The biggest statement for those who are that unhappy would be to take their business elsewhere, but instead people act like losing TWC is the end of the world and just post here which makes 0 logical sense. The people who deal with channel contracts sure don't come here.

If Verizon did come to new terms for TWC their per customer rates would probably increase and who do you think those fees would eventually be passed onto? The consumers then before you know it there will be a thread on here with people complaning about how their bills went up because of the TWC.

I said it already, but what would one do if the power went out and you couldn't access TWC? Then what? What do you think those that don't even have cable do? That's why there is no excuse for anyone to not have an alternative method of getting the weather information. If you choose not to spend as little as $10 on something even as a backup then that's your choice, but you either stick with what you have or go elsewhere that has what you want.

Even as CRob has said everyone posting here has internet access so one can easily go on the weather channels website or elsewhere and get the information that they want. Also, if the weather is that bad 99.9% of the time the local news is covering it.

No one has to be happy with them dropping TWC, but posting here isn't going to bring it back. 

[gs0b]

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@SinCara wrote:

I said it already, but what would one do if the power went out and you couldn't access TWC? Then what? That's why there is no excuse for anyone to not have an alternative method of getting the weather information. If you choose not to spend as little as $10 on something even as a backup then that's your choice, but you either stick with what you have or go elsewhere that has what you want.. 

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I'll 2nd that.  If you live in an area where access to accurate, timely weather information is important, then TWC is not the primary solution.  A good weather radio is a must have.  And they don't have any monthly fees associated with them.  Compliment that with a smartphone, and you can have access to good info regardless of the state of power in your home.

Here's an example of the type of weather radio that should be standard issue for anyone in tornado alley:

http://www.amazon.com/Midland-WR120EZ-Weather-Certified-Trilingual/dp/B00176T9OY

Enjoy.

[silverado4x4]

I dont miss TWC at all. People think the world is coming to an end without TWC and it seems to me people cant keep their family safe or them selfs because its gone? Really people. I hope TWC never comes back maybe TWC will get off there high horse and stop thinking everything in the weather revolves around them . If I want to see the weather I turn on Weathernation on CH-466 has everything TWC has, local weather,radar in the corner of the screen, etc. I find it funny that there are 3 people on Weathernation that use to be on TWC.

[eljefe2]

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@silverado4x4 wrote:

I dont miss TWC at all. People think the world is coming to an end without TWC and it seems to me people cant keep their family safe or them selfs because its gone? Really people. I hope TWC never comes back maybe TWC will get off there high horse and stop thinking everything in the weather revolves around them . If I want to see the weather I turn on Weathernation on CH-466 has everything TWC has, local weather,radar in the corner of the screen, etc. I find it funny that there are 3 people on Weathernation that use to be on TWC.

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I too don't miss the TWC channel.  If I want to see what TWC is saying I can always do it online.  But as for Weathernation, it's not available here in the New York area or  in many other parts of the country.

This is a quote from Weathernation's website:

"We are available to viewers nationwide through satellite provider DIRECTV and through local TV broadcast digital stations in more than 20 major cities, including Boston, Minneapolis, Seattle, Washington, D.C., Denver and Atlanta."

Not exactly nationwide coverage.  At least not yet.

[david23662]

Hurricane Matthew confirmed just how useless AccuWeather channel is compared to The Weather Channel.   Without timely information from areas being affected and accurate and timely forecasts people (customers/viewers) were kept in the dark and therefore put in harms way.  We need the Weather Channel back, Accuweather is USELESS!

[JoeCoolOBX1]

David23662, I could not agree with you more! AccuWeather definitely is not anywhere near as good as the Weather Channel. I wish they would stream their content like HBO, then we get it via Apple TV and the likes... if every content provider does that, we can all eventually drop the cable TV portion of our service!

[starrin]

Has anyone ever approaced TWC about sending individual subscriptions to TWC?  Instead of juimping on the networks, maybe it's tome to start a campaign with TWC

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@JoeCoolOBX wrote:
David23662, I could not agree with you more! AccuWeather definitely is not anywhere near as good as the Weather Channel. I wish they would stream their content like HBO, then we get it via Apple TV and the likes... if every content provider does that, we can all eventually drop the cable TV portion of our service!

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[CRobGauth]

TWC has lost millions of subscribers over the last few years.

More so than just FiOS. More and more people are getting weather info via the internet than cable.