The Local Accu Weather Channel - Affiliates

Affiliates

Before the December 2008 discontinuation of NBC Weather Plus, seven NBC-affiliated stations chose to use Local AccuWeather instead: KNVN, KOBI, and KOTI are all locally owned; KULR owned by Max Media; and WJHG, WILX and WMTV are owned by Gray Television. Since December 2008 as either the NBC stations chose to discontinue using the Weather Plus system for local use or the systems became outmoded, several other NBC stations have begun to switch over to Local AccuWeather instead of picking up NBC's suggested replacement for Weather Plus, Universal Sports. In one rare case, both the ABC and NBC affiliates in Phoenix formerly carried the network, although the ABC station had chosen more of a focus on traffic conditions (as noted in the paragraph above) for their version of the subchannel, which is now an affiliate of the Live Well Network. Like in Amarillo, Texas, NBC affiliate KAMR-TV aired NBC Weather Plus on digital subchannel 4.2 while ABC affiliate KVII-TV aired The AccuWeather Channel on digital subchannel 7.3. Today, KVII-TV still aires The AccuWeather Channel on 7.3 and KAMR-TV now simulcasts programming from KCPN-LP, the MyNetworkTV affiliate on 4.2.

In September 2010, AccuWeather began to provide the channel's data components to their first non-commercial television client, for Milwaukee's PBS member organization Milwaukee Public Television's WMVS. WTMJ-TV already carries Local AccuWeather in that market, but WMVS's digital AccuWeather subchannel is purposefully structured to meet non-commercial guidelines and focuses more on local mapping, while not making any mention of AccuWeather to speak of or airing LAWC content, substituting NOAA Weather Radio audio from local station KEC60 instead.

Not all of the stations air the digital channel's complete daily transmission; a few AccuWeather affiliates also air a limited amount of syndicated programming, and may even air regularly scheduled network programming (usually sports) when the main channel cannot. All of the subchannels must also have the required three hours per week of E/I-compliant programming scheduled locally by the station, as AccuWeather does not produce E/I-compliant programming for their affiliates, unlike NBC Weather Plus, which provided Weather Plus U on their national feed for all of their affiliates.