The Weather Channel the meteorologists seen on the television channel. For some affiliates, The Weather Channel provides a limited amount of live coverage during local severe weather events (with the Georgia-based announcers connected via ISDN). Distribution of TWC radio content is currently handled by Westwood One. Similarly, The Weather Channel also provides weather reports for a number of newspapers around the United States. This included a half-page national forecast for "USA Today", for which TWC provided content until September 2012, when rival AccuWeather replaced The Weather Channel as the paper's forecast provider with TWC's forecasts being replaced with AccuWeather's on the USAToday.com website
The Weather Channel particular weather event) and nationwide, depending upon the impact of the weather phenomenon/story and if a local provider utilizes a later model WeatherStar unit that allows the use of dual feeds that can substitute programming with long-form weather coverage in a given area. And also, during all of these events, the jingles that WCL uses are used to replace the normal one on Local on the 8s. In a move that caused controversy with many longtime viewers, The Weather Channel began airing weather-related movies on Friday nights on October 30, 2009. The first feature to be broadcast by the channel