{"id":12526,"date":"2014-01-14T06:45:38","date_gmt":"2014-01-14T13:45:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/examiner-com\/weather-channel-goes-dark-on-directv-other-weather-networks-ready-to-jump-in\/"},"modified":"2014-01-14T06:46:44","modified_gmt":"2014-01-14T13:46:44","slug":"weather-channel-goes-dark-on-directv-other-weather-networks-ready-to-jump-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/examiner-com\/weather-channel-goes-dark-on-directv-other-weather-networks-ready-to-jump-in\/","title":{"rendered":"Weather Channel goes dark on DirecTV, other weather networks ready to jump in"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure style=\"width: 320px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Despite The Weather Channel's PR campaign, DirecTV has dropped the network from its lineup.\" alt=\"Despite The Weather Channel's PR campaign, DirecTV has dropped the network from its lineup.\" src=\"http:\/\/cdn2-b.examiner.com\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/mobile_rss\/hash\/8e\/be\/8ebe7a29b1683755d418e0295d60d4df.jpg?itok=dMm8Jssg\" width=\"320\" height=\"193\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">DirecTV dropped The Weather Channel last night. Does anyone really care?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Following a contentious dispute with satellite television provider\u00a0DirecTV,\u00a0The Weather Channel\u00a0went dark on the service at midnight Monday. The loss of the network however has allowed other true\u00a0weather\u00a0networks an opportunity to provide news and information to the public.<\/p>\n<p>The loss is the first major outage for The Weather Channel that brought 24 \/ 7 weather to Americans\u2019 homes but has since given up on its core mission in favor of reality based television shows.<\/p>\n<p>It is that shift in programming choices and the lack of true weather coverage that DirecTV cited in its decision to drop the network.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.examiner.com\/article\/weather-channel-goes-dark-on-directv-other-weather-networks-ready-to-jump-in?cid=rss\" target=\"_blank\">Read more about the dispute and the alternatives for real weather news and information on Examiner.com<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following a contentious dispute with satellite television provider\u00a0DirecTV,\u00a0The Weather Channel\u00a0went dark on the service at midnight Monday. The loss of the network however has allowed other true\u00a0weather\u00a0networks an opportunity to provide news and information to the public. The loss is the first major outage for The Weather Channel that brought 24 \/ 7 weather to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/examiner-com\/weather-channel-goes-dark-on-directv-other-weather-networks-ready-to-jump-in\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Weather Channel goes dark on DirecTV, other weather networks ready to jump in<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[540],"tags":[592,677,271,678],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12526"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12526"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12526\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12532,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12526\/revisions\/12532"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}