Weather Channel To Begin Showing Movies
NEW YORK — The Weather Channel plans to show movies for the first time in its 27-year history and it's easy to guess which one is leading off. ...
NEW YORK — The Weather Channel plans to show movies for the first time in its 27-year history and it's easy to guess which one is leading off. ...
New York Times | DENNIS HEVESI | Posted 11.11.2009 | Media
Frank Batten Sr., the former chairman of a media conglomerate who in 1982 started the Weather Channel, facing down skepticism that many people would w...
New York Post | Posted 08.21.2009 | Media
After screening more than 50 candidates over the course of nearly eight months, the owners of The Weather Channel have finally agreed on a CEO for the...
Andy Borowitz | Posted 06.27.2009 | Comedy
The retrospective, titled "Bad and Dangerous: Fifty Years of Weather During the Michael Jackson Era," will begin airing this Monday.
New York Post | Posted 07.19.2009 | Media
After watching competitors steal its thunder when it comes to weather coverage, The Weather Channel is seeking to take it back. The cable network i...
Huffington Post | Danny Shea | Posted 05.11.2009 | Media
Katy Tur, the 25-year-old girlfriend of MSNBC's Keith Olbermann, has joined The Weather Channel as a tornado-chaser. Tur will join Vortex2 host Mike ...
Huffington Post | Danny Shea | Posted 05.30.2009 | Media
Al Roker has landed a morning show on NBC-owned The Weather Channel, it was announced Wednesday morning. "Wake Up With Al" will air from 6-7 AM ET on...
The Huffington Post | Posted 05.10.2009 | Chicago
Via the Windy Citizen comes this mispronunciation gaffe from a Weather Channel anchor covering the White Sox opening day delay April 6. Watch: ...
New York Times | Bill Carter | Posted 04.26.2009 | Media
After a long search, NBC and its partners in ownership of the Weather Channel are close to naming a new chief executive for that cable franchise. E...
Laurie David | Posted 04.06.2009 | Green
Local TV weathermen, who despite their careful tracking of weather disasters and trends, are hell bent on denying that global warming is happening. That's why today I have to take my hat off to veteran meteorologist Bob Ryan.
Huffington Post | Danny Shea | Posted 01.30.2009 | Media
The Weather Channel's Mike Seidel slipped and fell while reporting live for MSNBC this weekend. Siedel, a storm veteran who has covered more than 40 ...
Washington Post | Andrew Freedman | Posted 12.23.2008 | Green
NBC Universal made the first of potentially several rounds of staffing cuts at The Weather Channel (TWC) on Wednesday, axing the entire staff of the "...
Shelley Hendrix Reynolds | Posted 10.26.2008 | Living
Riding out the storm is one thing. Picking up the aftermath of the storm is quite another.
AP | SETH SUTEL | Posted 07.14.2008 | Media
NEW YORK — NBC Universal and two partners said Sunday they have reached a deal to buy The Weather Channel from Landmark Communications Inc., end...
Silicon Alley Insider | Michael Learmonth | Posted 06.21.2008 | Business
Time Warner (TWX) has withdrawn its bid for the Weather Channel, Reuters reports. NBC U (GE), Blackstone Group and Bain Capital have bid $3.5 billion ...
Silicon Alley Insider | Peter Kafka | Posted 05.31.2008 | Media
The WSJ ($) polls potential buyers for Landmark's Weather Channel assets and concludes that there are two primary contestants: Time Warner (TWX) and N...
Huffington Post via Smoking Gun | Posted 05.15.2008 | Media
The Weather Channel is up for sale, with some estimates placing its value at $5 billion, but new developments reveal a shocking cloud hanging over the...
New York Times | Andrew Ross Sorkin | Posted 03.28.2008 | Media
A half-dozen media companies have signaled that they plan to bid for the Weather Channel, which is up for auction, people involved in the talks said W...
Silicon Alley Insider | Michael Learmonth | Posted 03.28.2008 | Media
NBC U CEO Jeff Zucker says he likes the Weather Channel, but not for the $5 billion Landmark Communications is said to be seeking. "Obviously, (The We...
Reuters | Paul Thomasch | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business
Media company Landmark Communications said on Thursday it was exploring the sale of its publishing and television businesses including cable network T...
New York Times | Andrew Ross Sorkin | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business
The Weather Channel, one of the last privately owned cable channels, is being put up for sale and could fetch more than $5 billion, according to peopl...
AP | DAVID BAUDER | Posted 10.20.2009 | Media