WeatherNation TV (branded on-air as simply WeatherNation) is an American

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, digital streaming,

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, and

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owned by WeatherNation, Inc, a subsidiary of Performance One Media and ultimately owned by Robert J. Sigg. The network broadcasts live and pre-recorded local, regional, and national

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and weather-related news, including periodic coverage of severe and tropical weather events. The network's studio facilities, along with its headquarters and

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facilities are located in the

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suburb of

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, sharing production facilities with sister network

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History

WeatherNation was founded by

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-based meteorologist

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in 2010. Robert J. Sigg's Performance One Media in 2010 acquired the WeatherNation trademarks and brand from the original WeatherNation (which eventually became part of

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), a centralized weather service for local stations and web sites. Broadcast Weather also was hired to provide weather news programming for WeatherNation channel. In March 2011, WeatherNation, Inc. and National Cable Television Cooperative (NCTC) reached a long-term carriage agreement for a national channel for a second quarter 2011 roll out. Performance One Media later gained full ownership and control over WeatherNation following a lawsuit against it in 2014. WeatherNation would gain its first broadcast television outlet by October 24, 2011,

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, as its primary affiliation. WIYC in Montgomery,

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, also started carrying WeatherNation that same month. Further expansion of its broadcast affiliate body continued in January 2012, when WeatherNation added

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(

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);

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( KMYA-DT); Fort Smith, Arkansas ( KFDF-CA); and Springfield,

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( KFFS-CA). Many of WeatherNation TV's initial over-the-air affiliates were low-power and full-power stations that were not affiliated with one of the major broadcast television networks. However, from 2012 to 2014, the network announced piecemeal agreements with two major broadcasting groups to carry WeatherNation on the subchannels of network-affiliated stations (including one which expanded upon an existing affiliation agreement with such a station). During 2013 and 2014, the network expanded its distribution agreement with the

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, owner of Minneapolis affiliate KARE-TV, to add the network on the subchannels of its stations in cities such as Atlanta (

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), Denver (

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), and Washington, D.C. ( WUSA). On October 27, 2014, WeatherNation TV signed an affiliation agreement with the

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to carry its programming on a subchannel of the company's

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in Baltimore. On January 14, 2014, WeatherNation launched on DirecTV channel 361 as part of a carriage dispute between

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and

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. On April 21, 2015, Dish Network announced that it had reached an agreement to add WeatherNation onto its lineup, making it available on channel 215. On August 1, 2018, DirecTV dropped WeatherNation. On October 12, 2022,

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announced it would no longer air advertising on either Performance One network due to the overtly political programming of sister network Real America's Voice. As a demonstration of the increasing political influence of right-leaning ideologies, in mid-January 2025, WeatherNation began airing repeated ads starring Eric Trump, far-right podcasters, and patriot supplies including Trump-branded merchandise, indicating a pattern of increasing commercial and social influence of Trump as he entered his second presidential term.

Availability

Current affiliates

Pay television

WeatherNation TV's national feed began to be carried on satellite provider DirecTV on channel 361 on December 16, 2013; the provider reached a temporary carriage agreement with the network while it was renegotiating its contract with The Weather Channel (which was carried on channel 362). After DirecTV dropped The Weather Channel on January 14, 2014, due to the reasons behind

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's planned removal of the channel in May 2010, the provider replaced The Weather Channel on channel 362 with WeatherNation, which lasted until The Weather Channel and DirecTV struck a new carriage agreement on April 8, 2014, that restored TWC on channel 362; however, WeatherNation TV would continue to be carried on channel 361 until 2018 as a result of a long-term carriage agreement it signed with DirecTV on April 2, one week prior to The Weather Channel agreement. On April 21, 2015, WeatherNation reached an agreement with Dish Network to be offered to its customers as a six-week preview, and then added to Dish's America's Top 120 programming packages. On August 1, 2018, DirecTV dropped its carriage of WeatherNation, replacing it with the

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Over-the-top providers

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added WeatherNation in December 2018.

References

External links

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