WHDH NBC Weather Plus is finally gone

[Howard Glazer]

Same on WVIT New Britain-Hartford, local radar/forecasts only but still
branded Weather Plus. Universal Sports is running on the other subchannel.

Howard

----- Original Message -----
From: Bill Smith <brscomm@yahoo.com>
To: <boston-radio-interest@rolinin.bostonradio.org>
Sent: Sunday, January 04, 2009 11:49 PM
Subject: RE: WHDH NBC Weather Plus is finally gone


> KSDK is running Weather Plus with only local STL area weather. No sign of
> NBC or national weather.
>
> Bill
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mike Ward [mailto:mpward@gmail.com] On Behalf Of Mike Ward
> Sent: Sunday, January 04, 2009 11:41 AM
> To: Bill Smith
> Cc: boston-radio-interest@rolinin.bostonradio.org
> Subject: Re: WHDH NBC Weather Plus is finally gone
>
> Bill Smith wrote:
>
> > As of today, Sunday, out here in St. Louis, Weather Plus is still alive
> and
> > well on Charter Cable.
>
> The national, official Weather Plus feed went away for everyone sometime
> on the 31st.
>
> Has the station done what ours (WKYC/Cleveland) did?  It has managed to
> keep the Weather Plus "L" graphics, minus the logo, and is running
> continuous radar feeds... with generic weather theme music in a loop...
> the Weather Plus" logo now just reads "3 WEATHER"..
>
> You can watch it yourself here:
>
> http://www.wkyc.com/video/weather/weather_plus/default.aspx
>
> Like for you, the feed is still on Time Warner Cable 372...though it was
> announced that would go away.
>
>
>