Monday, March 30, 2015

Weather Channel vs. AccuWeather: a Category 5 TV war

Weatherwar

The lightning bolts have been unleashed in an escalating battle between The Weather Channel, a weather industry behemoth, and The AccuWeather Network, a smaller, independent multimedia forecasting company that just launched a fledgling cable network


AccuWeather recently landed a major deal when Verizon FIOS dumped The Weather Channel, a cable TV staple since 1982, in favor of the upstart network. The Weather Channel spent weeks vilifying Verizon FIOS by urging customers to contact the company to complain about losing their network


Verizon's abandonment has made the weather wizards at The Weather Channel angry. So angry, in fact, that they're responding with the force of a Category Five hurricane. Read more...


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