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Is there a reason why the weather channel in the North Texas area no longer shows local weather?
Some months back the weather channel switched to showing a national feed in the Dallas area instead of local information.
The particular local office feed I was getting featured local cities of: Arlington, Bedford and Grand Prairie fed off of the Arlington Hub.
Is there anyway the local on the 8s data can be restored in the metro area?
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Edit: Just curious if that's via cable TV set-top box or streaming. I don't know if or when it may have changed but all i can figure so far is that streaming The Weather Channel any which way is no more localized than via the The Weather Channel app itself and, if that's the case, then i guess that The Weather Group, LLC has for streamers to use the Local Now app in lieu of The Weather Channel for local weather (among all kinds of stuff.)
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Here in southwestern Connecticut, Local on the Eights is correct with our STB but on the Spectrum App, only national is available.
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The lack of local on the 8s is affecting cable boxes and the streaming app. They actually had the local data on the app before they pulled the plug completely. It seems like it's just a national feed with ad inserts for Spectrum.
Local on the 8s is based on a computer at the hub or headend level. It's not decided at the node level. Bandwidth used is the same with or without the local data insertion.
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So you were getting both the localized crawler and the Local on the 8s via both cable TV and stream before the high split upgrade started in North Texas and now you're getting neither via either, or what?
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I just started having this problem in Los Angeles. I just noticed it now as I’m typing this. This is on both of my cable boxes. The crawler now shows cities throughout the country, with the time scrolling through ET, CT, MT, and PT. It used to show cities in and around the Los Angeles area. Please fix this.
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