The Weather Channel: Local on the 8's in HD

I guess I should be happier than most, the SD Weather Channel gets a Washingon Metro local-on-the-eights insertion.
However the HD version of the weather channel gets the generic national version.
What gives?

The HD version only supplies a generic version of the local forecasts at this time. This is what the Weather Channel says about this issue;
"The technology to produce a detailed Local on the 8s in High Definition is currently under development. We expect to make available a completely re-designed Local on the 8s in HD with a new look and new content in early 2009. In the interim, you will receive the same Local on the 8s that you have been getting in standard definition from your existing provider."

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Weather Channel Local on the 8's

I live in Peoria, IL and I only recieve Local on the 8's information on the SD channel. I do not recieve the Local on the 8's on the HD channel, is there a reason for this?

The HD local on the eights is in slow deployment across ComcastLand. It needs equipment upgrades to make it happen. There are many posts on the subject on the forum.
Many area's have had it for a year or more. It will probably happen "eventually".

I can't open the Weather Channel's interactive radar map that I've always been able to open in the past.

Up until a few days ago, I've always been able to view The Weather Channels Interactive Local Weather Map for my area. Now it won't open the map and asks if I want to refresh. It still doesn't open. The site works fine on my other computers.
Just wondering if it was something I did by accident that changed something.

If you have Flash Block installed, try uninstalling it. When I had the same issue, I first tried white listing the Weather Channel site in the Flash Block options. When that didn't work, I tried disabling Flash Block. When that didn't work, I uninstalled Flash Block, and the maps worked fine. I'm guessing that there is some incompatibility between the most recent versions of Adobe Flash, Flash Block, and the Weather Channel site.

No Local Forecast On The Weather Channel

I have the Weather Channel on FIOS but I don't get my local forecast.

You don't state where your location is, since the results vary from location to location.
The NYC Metro has:
1) Channel 49 - Weatherscan from Weather channel
2) Channel 119 Weather Channel's "Weather on the 8's"
3) Channel 619 Weatherchannel HD but only national "Weather on the 8's
4) FIOS News Channels 1/501 (Hudson Valley, Long island or Northern New Jersey)
I prefer option 1 or 4 as the Weather Channel rarely has weather, but now chooses to put on all kinds of weather related reality shows.

Recently I have been unable to acccess my local weather or other zip code weather reports on the Weather Channel using my laptop. My wife has no problem accessing from her laptop from same location.

This problem is new. I have always been able to access the Weather Channel's website and obtain weather reports for various zip codes. I have Window 7 and use Firefox and Google. I have The Weather Channel as one of my Bookmarks. The site comes up when requested but the three locations that I had listed are not evident and when I type in the zip codes nothing comes up.

Hi there, I have the same problem with my envy 17ts-j100. I was trying to recover and I had a reset failed massage to I powered it off and went to sleep. The laptop won't boot to bios with symptoms as above.
Somebody please help out.

Why is the Weather Channel app blocked in OSX?

Every attempt I've made this evening to install a The Weather Channel app on this computer has been blocked.
The app is fine on iOS..
What gives??

Because iOS App's for iDevices are not made to run in OS X.
Also > The Weather Channel App for Windows with Current Conditions, Local Alerts, and Radar, will not work because it is only for Windows desktops.
You can however get the > The Weather Channel Widget for your OS X Desktop and then easily access Weather.com from it.
For more see > 8 Wonderful Weather Apps For Mac, Most Of Them Free

What happened to The Weather Channel HD Feed

Live in Comcast Elgin/Algonquin area. Channel 270 for The Weather Channel HD is broadcasting in SD feed. Anyone else experiencing this issue. All of my other HD channels are working properly.

slowbiscuit wrote:
I'm having the same issue for channel 832 in Atlanta, using a Tivo with a Cablecard. For two months now TWC has been widescreen SD on the HD channel, even though all the local commercials (e.g. Xfinity business) are in 1080i HD on that channel. All of the TWC content is SD, the local cable commercials are HD in other words so I know it's an HD channel.
I've called Comcast and had them open a ticket, called TWC to have them check the problem, even PM'd ComcastTeds here and no one has responded with a fix for the problem.
I'm in zip 30106, Austell area, on the Vinings headend I think.
Apologies for the delay in responding. I have asked a few more Atlanta area team members to review this and get eyes on glass.
Thanks for your continued patience.

Wather Channel local on the 8's - Tucson, AZ

I live in Tucson Arizona. I recently moved from an area serviced by Cox to an area serviced by Comcast. I had access to both systems (still had both houses) until about a month ago. Cox still has Local on the 8's for the Tucson area. Comcast Local on the 8's starts in the northeast and give a rundown of temperatures and forecasts across the country. The closest the report get to Tucson is Phoenix which is 120 miles north. Pretty much useless since the weather between the 2 areas can be completely different at time. Is there a way to program your actual city in to get local weather? One of the satellite companies is starting to look better!! Thanks!

According to this article, it probably has something to do with the type of Weather Star system that Comcast is using. Also, the reason why you're getting the weather report from Phoenix is probably because that's where Comcast's headend (the Satelite farm that recieves the signal from The Weather Channel) is located at and then transmits the signal over their trunk lines to your locaton in Tucson. There is currently no way that I know of that you can change the location. Although, going to satelite might look better, with satelite you only get The Weather Channel's national feed. You do not get any local on the eight's with satelite. My late father was a subscriber to Direc TV for about 16 years before he passed away and he always used to complain to me about not being able to get the locals on the 8's either. I used to always tell him to use the Internet instead. He had his Internet and phone through Charter. Since you live in Tucson, your best bet for local weather is the Internet with either Comcast's local site for Tucson or The National Weather Service's Tucson office site. The National Weather service is considered the horse's mouth where even most TV and radio station meteorologists get their radar feeds and forecasts from. Here is The Weather Channel's forecast site for Tucson also.

With Firefox 3.6.10 I cannot run The Weather Channel's interactive or full-featured maps. Anyone know why?

I have no problem loading The Weather Channel's web site but when I click the map for my locale to enable the interactive map, or map in motion, or full-featured map, I get a blank screen -- although the time-log loop for the interactive or map in motion displays.

Thanks to those who provided help, but the tips didn't work for me.
I just applied the latest Flash update, however, and now the weather.com map-in-motion finally works for me, again.

HT4623 I installed ios7 on my iPad 2 yesterday, this morning it wouldn't open the weather channel app. I thought maybe I should power it down. When I held down on the power button the screen went black and now it won't do anything. What do I do now?

I installed ios7 on my iPad 2 yesterday, this morning it wouldn't open the weather channel app. I thought maybe I should power it down. When I held down on the power button the screen went black and now it won't do anything. What do I do now?

Try a reset: Press and hold both Sleep/Wake and Home buttons until the Apple logo appears.

Why isn't the weather channel working?

We have had the weather channel on our iPad, but it stopped working today.

Check this link. It appears they have had issues today: http://downdetector.com/status/the-weather-channel

IPad 1 will not download apps. This just started. Looking to get the weather channel.

Having trouble downloading a app. This problem just started. It will let me go into the app store but comes up blank. Trying to get the weather channel.

Have you tried logging out of your account via Settings > Store and logging back in and seeing if that makes any difference ? You could also try a reset and see if they download after the iPad has restarted : press and hold both the sleep and home buttons for about 10 to 15 seconds (ignore the red slider), after which the Apple logo should appear - you won't lose any content, it's the iPad equivalent of a reboot.
If an app is over 20 meg in size then you won't be able to download it over 3G, you will need to either use wifi on your iPad or download it to your computer's iTunes and then sync it across.

IPad kicks out of the weather channel ap as soon as I try to view the radar in video ??

iPad kicks out of the weather channel ap as soon as I try to view the radar video ?

Delete the app and reinstall it. It's not like the app has tons of stored data. You will lose your favorite locations and they are easy to set up again.
Tap and hold down on the app icon until it wiggles. Tap the X on the icon to delete it. Tap the home button to stop the apps from wiggling. Download the app again.

What is with the black batch script box appearing on the Weather Channel? See Pix's.

I first noticed these Friday 06-01-2012 whenever I change to the Weather Channel (WC), it only happens when on WC.
The first pix shows it in mid-update. See the last character it is a zero. Every 15secs it tries to update itself.That last character will roll alpha-numerically until it stops at the bracket character ( ] ), then it does it again 15secs. later.
I was unable to get a pix of the first script box because it changes to fast, but it starts out:
[ T for Weather Channel...some type of code.....] Then goes to what I show in the above pix's.
I have tried both the STB Auto-Recovery, and STB reset, neither one will stop it from appearing.
The only way to get rid of it is either to shut the TV or the STB off, but it comes right back when I want to view the WC.
My release is 1.9, and the build is 10.95. Is this happening because the STB is trying to update to 1.9.1?
Does anyone have an answer?
Anak
Solved!
Go to Solution.

I'm pretty sure that is coming from your TV. use your tv remote or the tv menu from the front panel of your TV (not the fios remote) and look in the menu for your closed captioning and turn it off.
you may even have a CC button on your original tv remote (the fios one looks different, so I don't think this is coming from the set top box)

Application Permissions Request The Weather Channel App

Beginning yesterday 5/8/2012 The white screen pops up showing Application Permissions Request. TWCStandard is requesting permission to use the following resources. There is a box with location and a check mark. there is a box with connections and a check mark. A save button and a Details button. This pops up everytime I click on the weather icon. Is there a way to keep this from popping up every time? It did not used to. I have uninstalled and re-installed the weather app 3 times and 1 time in safe mode. I have edited my permission several times. Any suggestion would be helpful.

did you ever figure out a solution for this? our problem is that when we unlock the blackberry, the permissions screen is ready and waiting even though we have not tried to open the weather channel app.

The Weather Channel: Local on the 8's in HD

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