Weather Channel unleashes more self-aggrandizing hyperbole in fight with cable network

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12. I click weather on my phone and it tells me for the day and the week what to expect.

There's also a 24hr local news channel that is on our BrightHouse cable (and yep, they use accuweather), they show the weather every 9mins and during commute times the traffic conditions behind it, if I'm really in the mood for it. But the phone is where I go most of the time; one touch and I know. Also, if I'm traveling to another location, I can add the new location weather into the menu and have that info before I travel or while I'm at the new location. I don't know too many people with a smart phone, my age and younger, who don't tap the weather info box for this info.

If we are expecting a nasty weather system, like tornados or strong lightening/ thunder and gusty winds, I will get an alert on my phone advising me of the bad weather that is about to hit. A hurricane, we will know about in advanced enough time to semi-prepare for it (no one can fully prepare for a storm like that - but we can certainly make plans and buy supplies and make sure we have full tanks of gas and full phone charges on our batteries - so we can get updates about the storm conditions when the electricity goes out).

It's amazing the technology we have in the form of a small, hand-held device, with access to the Internet, text, e-mail, phone, and easy App accesses for alerts and tweets and Facebook. And now, alternative TV show access from places like NetFlix is delivering Golden Globe winning shows. The need to pay for bulky cable packages is going to slip away once these alternative web-based TV show/ movie access companies sign contracts with sports packages and open air network channels (ABC, CBS, NBC, FOX, and PBS).

If cable channels and cable providers want to stay relevant, they will begin designing Internet based access, on customers time schedule, and with faster highspeed: high definition downloading. In another 10 or 20 yrs, cable TV will be a thing of the past. People will watch the shows they want to when they want to around their time schedule and they will pay for a general access pass to access certain types of TV, local news networks, specialty shows, and movie passes. The only thing keeping cable relevant at the moment is limited access to sports and limited highspeed Internet across America.

Customers like my parents who live in rural VT and can only access TV with a dish because cable refuses to run access to their town (cost vs profit margin makes their town non-cabled), will go from a dish set up to some sort of highspeed Internet access to give them TV. They will probably not have an inbetween of cable box to Internet TV, living where they do.

For my husband, we would have dropped a cable box by now if the Internet TV providers had a sports package and a "cable/ dish" type of channel option line up. It will happen. The rush to make this type of access will only get better and become cheaper over time. And then, I hopefully, I won't see networks/ cable channels fighting with the providers over contract prices. Wealthy company 1 asking wealthy company 2 for people watching to get involved in their greedy squabble isn't exactly something they are smartly doing! It pisses everyone off that with all their smart CEO's making millions and their lawyers making millions, that they can't figure out how to negotiate a contract fairly, so they decide to take the people paying both of their salaries hostage over their greed. Disgusting!