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Local on the 8s (or the Local Forecast) is a program segment that airs on the American network The Weather Channel.It provides viewers with information on current and forecasted weather conditions for their respective area; a version of this segment is also available on the channel's national satellite feed that features forecasts for each region of the United States.
The first iteration of "Local on the 8s" was somewhat short-lived, only lasting until early 1998. The concept was later revived in December 2001, and remains in use by TWC to this day. The Weather Channel logo used from 1996 to 2005; this logo was still used on the Weather Star 4000.
WeatherStar (sometimes rendered Weather Star or WeatherSTAR; "STAR" being an acronym for Satellite Transponder Addressable Receiver) [1] is the technology used by American cable and satellite television network The Weather Channel (TWC) to generate its local forecast segments—branded as Local on the 8s (LOT8s) since 2002 and previously from 1996 to 1998—on cable and IPTV systems nationwide.
In some episodes, the old TWC logo (1996–2005) was used during the question at the end, which is most difficult to stretch the current TWC logo on the lower display line of the Weather Star XL and IntelliStar. After the credits in the episodes, the 2003 graphic of The Weather Channel logo was used, before a one-minute local forecast.
Local Now (stylized as "local now") is an American over-the-top internet television service owned by The Weather Group, LLC, a subsidiary of Entertainment Studios. [1] [2] A spinoff of The Weather Channel, Local Now primarily provides a cyclic playlist of weather, news, sports, entertainment and lifestyle segments, incorporating localized content through feeds geared to a user-specified area.
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He also narrates Local On The 8s (excluding the national version). He was featured in the beginning of the ECHL's Stockton Thunder entrance video saying "Hello, this is meteorologist Jim Cantore from the Weather Channel; a special weather advisory has been issued for the Central Valley—a 100% chance of thunder."
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