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
History of The Weather Channel done on the basis that "our most passionate fans come to us for the weather and the science behind the weather, not our original shows." As part of the overhaul, The Weather Company would lay off around 50 of TWC's employees (or 3% of the channel's 1,400 staff members), including production, engineering and financial staff, while overall spending for the television channel would be reduced to focus more on the company's internet and mobile properties. The channel also announced that it would launch Local Now, a localized weather, traffic and news service similar in format to Weatherscan, that is intended