So right before this video was ready to upload, many TWC/Entertainment Studios employees and most notably Mike Seidel were layed off on May 1st. Guess I uploaded this at just the right time!

You used to be able to turn on the Weather Channel during weather outbreaks and see actual weather. Now it's just another reality tv channel.

I used to be hooked on the Weather Channel in elementary and middle school: I would watch Storm Stories, It Could Happen Tomorrow, and When Weather Changed History again and again. Their programming lineup nowadays just isn't the same.

2000s local on the 8s was a vibe.

A few years ago, TWC took it upon themselves to name Winter Storms. One of the silliest ideas ever. Then there was the infamous shot of Jim Cantore wearing all his "hurricane gear" while covering a storm and two guys in the background were photobombing , smiling, waving wearing absolutely NOTHING to protect themselves...And Mike Seidel standing in a windstorm, with his legs bracing himself from the wind while a fellow was walking in the background showing no issue at all.. All of their theatrics turned me off!!

Dr. Greg Forbes. That guy was the best thing to happen to TWC. You’ll never get another Severe Storm Expert like him again. He was the Michael Phelps, the Michael Jordan, the Babe Ruth, the Usain Bolt, the Mohammed Ali of severe storm coverage.

A Channel called "The Weather Channel" that shows anything but "The Weather". Unless there's bad weather, but now Ryan Hall has better coverage.

Once NBC took over, it went to the dogs. The meteorologists were not as good, and the graphics were so amateurish.

They lost me when they started naming winter storms.

Was watching them today and the reporter announced there was an observed tornado on the ground. She then says, "We'll have more info after the break...Take Cover," then cut to commercial. My dad and I looked at each other in disbelief.

Showing my age here but nothing beats The Weather Channel from the 90's.

Cable TV in general is basically dead. Why pay 200 bucks a month when you can get all the news, weather, and entertainment you could ever need on your phone? And mainstream news no one cares about mainstream news anymore. You get more accurate news from independent and small content creators.

Even the app slowly turned awful. I had to eventually stop using it because it got so unbelievably aggressive with the ads

My favorite era of TWC was 1991-2007.

I’m 18 now, but when I was between ages 10 and 11, I would get up from bed, and immediately sit myself in front of the TV for hours just watching the weather channel, I was just fascinated with the weather, and still am, when they were predicting severe weather for where I live, I’d sit there for the whole day until the storm hit. I’ve always had a sort of a personal connection with the weather channel like I was apart of what was happening there for some reason.. AND I REALLY LOVED THE LOCAL ON THE 8’s… the song at 2:26 always got me hyped up because I knew they played that song when there was something serious happening… Unfortunately, right when I turned 14, our cable provider randomly decided to hike up the monthly cable bill by 50$, costing $130 per month… my parents decided to just get rid of it and replace it with streaming services instead… since then… I’ve never seen the weather channel since.. and the only thing that was remotely close to it was their app and KZfaq here… coming across this video just now.. it makes me sad to see it start to decline and see all of the original anchormen and women who I grew up with there leave or retire… or die… RIP Schwartz.. didn’t know he died until now.. but I know that stuff is inevitable.

Ryan Hall Y’all is the best place to watch severe weather here on KZfaq. There’s also Max Velocity, and of course Reed Timmer is still live streaming. He was on storm stories.

I miss Greg Forbes. I I have many relatives from Pennsylvania with Pennsylvania Dutch accents, so listening to Greg Forbes talk about tornados felt like listening to my uncle. I'd love to see him make a comeback now that his cancer is gone and he is healthy again.

Mid-late 2000s Weather Channel was what made me want to become a meteorologist going into College. A real shame it's not the same as it used to be.

I used to watch NOTHING but the Weather Channel as a kid. I had a streak of like 5 years where I watched it every single day for hours at a time. I loved it. Storm Stories was my favorite and helped me know what to do as a 16 year old when the Joplin tornado hit (my town.) I just saw that Mike Seidel was layed off this week. That to me is the nail in the TWC coffin. They're refusing to modernize or restructure and they're getting rid of some of the most beloved, esteemed meteorologists that have been synonymous with their channel.

It also seems like every time there’s a severe weather outbreak, they never do any coverage on it anymore, or they focus on the wrong things. Their programming is more important than actually trying to cover the current situation.

Ahhh, the Weather Channel music... I spent so many hundreds of hours glued to The Weather Channel as a kid in the 90s that that music will forever be etched into my mind. Of course, we all openly complained about how terrible we thought it was, but deep down I secretly enjoyed how relaxing it was :D Sad to see TWC get swallowed up with reality programming, like so many channels, but I'm glad to have been able to enjoy it during those great years it had in the 90s!

Nothing beat the look of the channel in the late 80's and early 90's. Back then, when I'd go on vacations with my family, we'd always watch weather channel to know how to plan our days, so that brings alot of fond nostalgia for me.

I call TWC the “Ice Road Truckers” channel. Ryan Hall Y’all is my go-to now.

I would say in terms of how they do their basic programming ( giving weather forecasts 24/7 and what not ), that hasn't really changed all that much. I mean they still do those kinds of shows like America's Morning Headquarters, Storm Center, and Weather Underground. So in terms of them covering weather or severe outbreaks, it's not that different. IMO the biggest problem is the lack of wow factor. The biggest reason I was so obsessed with The Weather Channel in the mid-2000's to early 2010's ( which is when they peaked IMO ), was because you had Jim Cantore, Greg Forbes, Mike Bettes, Storm Stories, It Could Happen Tomorrow, Storm Riders, and all of these big severe weather events that you just loved to watch them cover ( Katrina, April 27th, El Reno 2013 ). Nothing ever tops Jim Cantore and Greg Forbes working together in the studio with Jim's serious tone and Forbes's incredible expertise watching those tornadoes unfold ( see: Vilonia, Arkansas 2014 ). The shows back then also had a much darker tone and much better pacing that engaged interest for the viewers ( see: It Could Happen Tomorrow and Storm Stories ). You also had the perfect sense of adventure and education on shows like Storm Riders. ( All those shows I just mentioned, please for the love of god, show re-runs of them or at least give them a DVD release ( exception being Storm Stories and When Weather Changed History )! ). Nowadays, their programming has a much lighter feel and doesn't have that same sense of awe that drew people in. Also, which I'm obviously preaching to the choir to, THEY BARELY TALK ABOUT WEATHER. Who wants to watch shows about tow trucks, crashing planes, or monsters, on a channel about WEATHER? The basic 24/7 covering weather also has those boring gray boxes that just have text on them don't compare at all to that awesome blue color scheme in storm footage that would show up behind "Severe Weather" in 2007-2009. Also, the Local on the 8's. It was always so fun hearing ( whoever his name is ) say: "Currently the temperature is, cloudy with showers and thunderstorms, here's your 7-day outlook!" with the perfect order of current conditions, radar, and the illustrated designs of storms and clouds......with all kinds of varying soundtracks for added attention ( "Night Drive" by Timothy Drury, and "Fun to be Happy" by Love Tractor. Nowadays, you get just a cloud with a lightning bolt coming out of it with the SAME FIVE SOUNDTRACKS EVERY TIME. How much more boring can you get? Last but not least, and I don't have to say a whole lot here: WHY HAVE THERE BEEN TIMES WHERE YOU AIR THESE POINTLESS NON-WEATHER RELATED SHOWS DURING VIOLENT TORNADOES?!

Two things that turn me away from the weather channel. 1. They stopped broadcasting weather 24 hrs. A day. 2. When a major storm was coming to a town that was causing death and destruction, all of a sudden they decided to go back to regular programming. 74 people died. People reporting watching TWC and then abandon them.

I'm a weather nerd and loved watching TWC before 2000. I don't anymore.

I remember being obsessed with TWC back in the 90‘s. Weather on the 8‘s with the funky jazz music. I also had a huge crush on Cheryl Lemke. Dave Schwartz was there, Mike Bettis (still there I think) Vivienne Brown, Bill Keneely, Mark Mancuso, Jeanetta Jones, Mike Bono…all superstars in my little teenage mind.

I used to love watching the Weather Channel from the 1980s to about 2010s. Haven’t watched it since. Loved the local forecast, the music it had, the major city forecasts, and the planner or whatever they called it.

Their website blows now, too. It's so bloated with clickbait headlines that are often not even weather related.

When you switched over to the Weather Channel and it was black and red you knew you were in for a rough night

I'm surprised The Weather Channel actually still has weather.

I hate the "reality" shows on TWC now. I almost never watch them anymore. Even during extreme weather events, they will change to non-weather shows. I go straight to Ryan Hall Y'all during extreme weather events. Much more informative.

The weather channel definitely peaked during the crazy 2005 hurricane season. The coverage of Katrina is something I’ll never forget. That was also my favorite local on the 8s music too (2005 hurricane storm alert)

The late 80s to the early 2000s was the best time for TWC. Weather coverage was 24/7 and the meteorologists actually took time to explain the weather for viewers. NBC and Baine Capital ruined the network by cutting staff and bringing in reality programming. Live weather coverage appears hurried today.

Back 20 years ago, I travelled a lot for business and spent about 12 hotel nights every month. The Weather Channel was my go-to channel and was on the TV from the time I got up in the morning until I left for the office. I hadn’t watched it for about 10 years and then last year, I decided to turn it on in a hotel. It was on for about an hour and in all that time, I never did find out what was going on weatherwise that day. Just like ESPN who used to cover sports, now Weather Channel covers anything other than weather! Yikes…

I grew up watching weather channel too in the 90s. In fact theyre the reason why i fell partially in love with smooth jazz. Ever since 2018 when Greg Forbs retired from the company, theyvw gone downhill. They used to be much more reliable then local news for severe storm coverage. Now though I am forces to rely on noaa and local news.

With the competitors part, even with severe weather, mostly tornadoes, there's a large amount of youtube weather streamers, such as Ryan Hall Y'all. Also the weather shows are somewhat being replaced, definitely not as much as the live stuff, with tornado videos on youtube. Loved this video, never knew the aero branding ever happened myself, only remember watching it post 2013. This channel (and seeing a snippet of the movie twister) is probably sparked my interest in tornadoes. Hopefully it gets back on track. Again amazing video, you have a lot of potential.

I’ve been a die hard fan of The Weather Channel. In the rebrand of 2013, it was still pretty decent in my opinion. I recalled that during big severe weather events, like tornadoes, they’d actually showed the thing live, and sometimes didn’t even have commercial breaks. That was good. The local on the 8s were still ok. It was 2018 when the channel started going downhill. They didn’t play the Local on the 8s on the 8s of every hour, not it was at minute 18 and 48. Then the severe weather coverage wasn’t as good anymore. It was still informative but not as it used to. Dr Greg Forbes was really good but when he left, the severe weather coverage wasn’t as well explained. More commercial breaks came a thing including during severe weather, and recently, the weather coverage is just looking at warnings on radar over and over again, and it’s not interesting anymore. The TV programming was good but now it’s not. And sadly one of the best meteorologists they had, Mike Seidel, was laid off yesterday. It’s sad to see a channel I really loved to watch, is going into a pit.

You hit the nail on the head with the bland corporate graphics. Minimalism has taken all the pizzazz out of graphic design and I can't wait for this awful trend to die out already.

In my childhood, I lived on TWC. It was more than just my favorite channel, the meteorologists were stellar and it made weather real to me. The golden years for this channel were 15+ years ago. Around the time they launched the HD channel sometime in 2008, that's when the graphics and many other things started to decline. The sale from Landmark Communications destroyed the once-loved channel. I haven't watched it in years now, and how unbelievably sad and enraging it is to see what has become of this channel today. I'd do anything to go back 20 years.

I started watching The Weather Channel in 2005. It was great. The Weather Channel in 2005-2006 was the best years for the channel.

They took away teletext, old web , y2k/frutiger aero styles and put the flat 😠.

I was a Weatherscan person.

Early/mid 2000s weather channel will always have a special place in my heart. ❤

I largely just watch AccuWeather nowadays; they never suffered channel drift. They also have nice music during their weather forecasts, much like Local on the 8s in its heyday.

I'm 26 years old now, but from 5th to 12th grade, i used to watch The Weather Channel. I still remember local on the 8s fondly.

I had the weather app on my phone up until they updated the app layout recently

Whenever my family would be on vacation, the first thing we'd put on the TV in the hotel was The Weather Channel for the Local on the 8's coverage. The jingle and the tunes that played still bring me nostalgia for those trips to this day. Great video!

Fun fact, you can stick your head out your window to see the weather, no television needed.

As many others have said, Ryan Hall is now my go to. His forecasts and coverage of ACTUAL life threatening weather, is what the weather channel used to be. Now TWC, is nothing but crappy infomercials, reality TV, advertisements and over exaggerations of otherwise standard weather.

I remember watching really cool shows on there about weather disasters. The music was just lovely. Smooth jazz is one of my favorites, despite its share of haters.

I miss them being live weather 24 hours a day.

I HAVE FOUND SOUL MATES! I'm so glad there are others who HATE naming winter storms, and HATE the reality shows that replaced weather. The very few times I checked TWC in the last few years, they had just about nothing about the current weather events. Even their hurricane coverage was pretty lacking. I remember back in the 80s to the early 2000s I could always just put TWC on and take it all in, and have a great idea of what was happening and would be happening across the country. First thing when we got to our rented beach house was to put on TWC in hopes of a sunny week ahead. And it was cool to see the unfamiliar local forecast locations, etc. I miss TWC, it really only exists in name.

I remember TWC in Utah when I was in high school in the 90s back when they featured others' songs. Was introduced to an awesome acoustic guitar group called Strunz and Farah. I think they only used maybe 3 songs from their original album, but the small clips of it they used for the local on the 8s had me searching for years. The album they came from was called Primal Magic. Every time I play it it just takes me back to those quiet afternoons doing homework.

Sadly, the weather channel has seriously declined. There is little weather reported. I get my weather from Mitch West on KZfaq or Ryan Hall Ya’all if there is serious weather happening. He goes live on KZfaq and communicates with all the storm chasers and the KZfaq meteorologists.

I enjoyed The Weather Channel when I was a kid mainly because when they recapped the weather each evening, they showed footage of random places around the country. Combine that with my imagination about the different weather conditions, I found a pleasant escape from my own reality. It was a slice-of-life type experience. Nowadays, with Internet, I can do the same with KZfaq and Tik Tok.

I remember back when Verizon had cable, I would binge, not the main weather channel, but the side channel that didnt have "news" reports on it, but it was pure weather coverage. It was almost like a 24/7 Local on the 8s Edit: just remembered it was called Weatherscan

We used to leave the Weather Channel on for background all the time. Then it became hopeless for bad weather so they would air all the stupid shows. Now even the app really isn’t that good.

One thing of note: The Weather Channel has been available on KZfaq TV for over a year now.

I used to watch the weather channel back in the early 90s this gave me so much nostalgia. I felt like a kid again! I’ve always been fascinated with weather since i can remember of my own existence.

I think WeatherNation and Fox Weather gives us up to date weather every hour 24/7

Weather nerd here. I used to keep TWC on constantly, but I have not liked the changes in recent years. Now I listen to (and support) Ryan Hall. We're tracking a tornado outbreak headed our way right now with Ryan 'cast onto the TV.

Never use the weather channel website. They are the poster child for ads.

I truly miss the 90s and early 2000s Weather Channel, honestly. Nowadays, we cut the cord due to it being too expensive and started watching Ryan Hall as we take him as our own version of The Weather Channel. No ads or filler, either! Just straight to the point weather coverage.

As a kid in the 80's, and 90's I could not stand when a doctors office had the weather channel on, but now when I come across a random YT upload with that banging smooth jazz music I can't get enough of it!!! Having said that days I can get faster more up to date hyperlocal weather on my phone 24/7 so I rarely watch the weather unless someone in my family has the local news on.

Max Velocity was live covering a tornado warning and several severe warnings Saturday 5/25/24 in the afternoon, while TWC gave Ice Road Truckers from an entire other country. The only time you're going to get weather is when Jacqui is live.

Meteorology degree here. I was gonna be a TV meteorologist and went to school with Derek vandam (CNN), I know ginger zee, pecos hank, and many more. I respect them but with smart phones you don’t need to watch someone on TV to know the forecast anymore. And if you wanna see a tornado outbreak you can go on YT and watch Ryan hall. I’m honestly surprised local meteorologists have a job on tv. I am much happier in a different career. Thanks for the good upload. I do miss the local on the 8’s.

I remember being as young as 7 turning on the weather channel choosing it over cartoons. 33 years later im still addicted to the weather, just not the weather channel sell outs.

I watched The Weather Channel when it was weather 24/7 once they started with all the shows. I watch The Accu Weather Channel now.

I remember being fascinated while also terrified of viewing the weather on Weather Channel, now I can’t stand to use them for normal weather due to how strongly ads are pushed- I just want the weather man-

I used to watch so much weather channel like storm stories, and my favorite was tornado alley they had some seriously good series back in the day

The mid-2000s was the Golden Era for the Weather Channel, IMO.

I used to watch the heck out of Weather Channel as a kid 25 years back, the music they used then was super nostalgic.

I don't really watch the Weather Channel all that much, but I find it to be a sense of nostalgia to me. Anytime my family goes to the beach, it's always on in my room. I think it has to do when we were hit by a Tropical Storm during our first year in Panama City (I believe it was T.S. Cindy), so I guess it was some sort of... weird comfort to me? That's the main reason I enjoy the Weather Channel so much.

Ever since I was in kindergarten I'd been fascinated with the weather, even wanting to become a meteorologist. TWC was a staple of my tv diet growing up, and my watch time would increase from ten minutes to five or six hours by the time I hit middle school around the early 2010s. Once my family decided to finally install home internet and I got my first smartphone in 2012, that's when I started to fall off in viewership because I didn't need to be in front of the tv, and their programming wasn't strictly weather related. Around the end of my junior year in 2013, I shadowed a meteorologist for a day, and that's when I realized that meteorology wasn't going to be in the cards for my future, and stopped watching. Now the weather is just a mundane part of my life I view through a relatively mundane app on my phone, well, only mundane until severe weather rolls in. Probably wouldn't even recognize TWC if I watched now, a full decade later. Even the local on the 8s sounds like its more like the 9s if this video is correct. I'll pass. Thanks for satisfying this weird little curiosity.

New to your channel. That pitch change in that canned vintage/retro intro music is just GOLD!! I had to play it over and over. Dont know what makes it so attractive, but it is. Gold!

The Weather Channel is on KZfaq TV. But FOX WEATHER CHANNEL has taken over and surprised The Weather Channel 🥰

The Weather Channel went from first class to low class. It is now the Heavy Haul and Semi Truck Towing Channel.

The last time i watched TWC was in 2016. My grandfather was in ICU and i just remember how it seemed less like the weather channel and more like a really channel.

i was a weather obsessed kid and watched the weather channel religiously and my parents thought it was amusing that i watched it more than other kid's channels. i especially loved hurricanes and was glued to the screen when a major one was going to make landfall. i was so excited for the 8th minute of every hour for local on the 8s and i loved the maps and radars and icons. i stopped watching way before the rebrand happened, but i remember tuning into twc several years ago and was disappointed with how bland and soulless everything was, especially the local on the 8s! now i get weather news from twitter, youtube, and tiktok. lots of great content weather tiktok is really awesome. for ex the phone footage from these recent tornado outbreaks is fascinating! i've never seen such close and clear footage before. i'd rather be there for weather now than twc

I remembered back during hurricane Katrina that the music used was Stephen Arnold's "Eye of the Storm," with specially included Weather Channel theme leitmotifs during the Local on the 8s. I didn’t realize we had it so good back then.

All news coverage now is geared for entertainment and political purposes; not honest news. I too mourn the loss of the REAL Weather Channel.

I So Much miss Alexandra Steele and Major Nicole. They were clear, crisp, and simply allowed The Weather to be the star of the show. Total Pros!

I had 40+ weather channel vhs tapes of forecasts and specials from the 1990s! In 2021 I started watching it again and now use my phone to videotape the severe weather in my town lol

The existence of Weather Channel "fans" baffles me, because as a kid, it was always that channel you tuned into for LOT8s every morning before school or work. But damn, it was interesting and the footage at 1:08 is nostalgic. I loved looking at weather stats in atlases, etc and LOT8s gave an excellent overview of just how bleak a rainstorm or heatwave was. Hearing Allen Jackson say "Chance of snow...." when I first moved to a state that had it was an experience

The end of the Weather Channel was Dr. Heidi Cullen the climate change evangelist.

When we got the cable the weather channel was on quite a bit...it was weather 24/7...later, as a long haul trucker, I wanted to see reasonably decent forecasts...later on, the overnight hours got ate up with inane programming, as if the weather just stopped overnight...I can still remember drivers in the truckstop looking at the weather channel, and now those days are pretty much over...

When I wasn't watching cartoons or sports in the '90s or the '00s, I was checking out TWC. That era of having' Weather on the 8s' was the best because of what you mentioned here. Also, the channel's unique smooth jazz songs were so iconic! Sucks to see where the channel has gone in the past decade plus, but yeah, I prefer their competitors on TV, mobile apps, and even KZfaq now.

Can we still all agree that The weather channel is one of the easiest to fall asleep to When you know for a fact there is no tornadoes

The decline started way earlier. It peaked in the early 90s.

Man, i used to looooove the Weather Channel. I really miss Local on the 8s and many of the other stuff you mentioned. Thanks for this video.

I really do miss the old weather channel especially 2008-2016. Really wish the could’ve continued storm stories, storm riders, Tornado Alley- Real Time, and so many more.

"Get Into The Out There" is the most unintuitive slogan ever, I had to read it like 3 times before I understood what it was saying.

When they jumped on the climate change bandwagon I had enough

It was our go-to for weather reports and weather learning. Enjoyed Alex when she had specials on weather. Really missed.

I used to watch TWC when Mrs. H. Tesch and Mr. Marshall Seese was still around in 2002 to 2004

The weather channel is peak. I used to watch it elementary and would watch it when I stayed up late and couldn’t watch Cartoon Network.

Cantore is still with TWC, working their morning show from 5 to 8 am (CDT). Stephanie Abrams also works AM HQ from 5 to 8 am, and their 'Pattrn' show from 11 to noon CDT.

I loved the Local on the 8s. Always had smooth jazz music...even during hurricanes when the weekly forecast was dreadful to look at. xD

TWC in the 1980s to about 2000 was sublime. I especially enjoyed the “For Everything You Do” and “No Channel Has Better Weather” eras. I still call smooth jazz “Weather Channel music”.