History
In 1990, Wegener Communications created design concepts for the Weather Star Jr, which was first released in 1993. The Weather Star Junior would be used in cable headends that could not afford any other unit (either the former Weather Star III, Star 4000, Star XL, or IntelliStar).
A major Federal Communications Commission deadline of 30 April 2002 forced TWC to provide audio tone generators to all operators of a Weather Star Jr in order to provide warning tones after the first display of a weather warning. In some instances, this unit replaced WeatherSTAR III units when the FCC and TWC discontinued the line in December 2004 because it could not produce a tone after the first display of a weather warning. By this time, most of the few remaining III units could no longer produce a tone at all, and making tone generators or other improvements to them would have been costly.
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