WeatherNation local on PlutoTV

[PhillyWatch 238]

Scrolling through the guide on PlutoTV, I noticed the logo for WeatherNation actually read "WeatherNation Los Angeles" (my location), and upon selecting the channel I saw that it featured a localized L-bar with static, local time that cycled through cities in the region with current conditions and a 5-day forecast, along with a "local weather on the 7's" in the video feed (which isn't *quite* on the 7's given the stream lag). I compared it with the WeatherNation app on my Roku, and their app (while offering a local forecast on their landing screen) still only offered the national WN feed.

 

While I don't love the fact that WN is a corporate sibling to "Real America's Voice", I don't exactly love FOX Weather's sister channel either (and don't get me started on the Byron Allen scripted courtroom shows...), moreover I do appreciate all the options we now have for weather information, particularly in this case, localized weather info. I know localized versions of WN are available sporadically OTA,  but I'm happy to see this wider distribution via means such as Pluto. 

 

I imagine most of the major cities will have localized WN available on Pluto, but I'm curious as to what some of you might see when checking it out for yourselves. 

[mightynine 287]

Changing my IP around via Surfshark, I found WeatherNation versions for New York, Boston, Atlanta and Chicago on PlutoTV, so this is definitely a thing.

 

 

[xoddf2 2]

I tried this on the Roku streaming player in the living room, and found only the national feed.

 

That may be because this is a small market (DMA 132), though.

[Georgie56 3066]

WeatherNation Dallas-Fort Worth is on Pluto. I'm using a Firestick.

[TheRolyPoly 1847]

I'm in the Miami market and using Roku. Nope, nothing local.

[DENDude 187]

On 6/24/2022 at 3:57 AM, PhillyWatch said:

Scrolling through the guide on PlutoTV, I noticed the logo for WeatherNation actually read "WeatherNation Los Angeles" (my location), and upon selecting the channel I saw that it featured a localized L-bar with static, local time that cycled through cities in the region with current conditions and a 5-day forecast, along with a "local weather on the 7's" in the video feed (which isn't *quite* on the 7's given the stream lag). I compared it with the WeatherNation app on my Roku, and their app (while offering a local forecast on their landing screen) still only offered the national WN feed.

 

While I don't love the fact that WN is a corporate sibling to "Real America's Voice", I don't exactly love FOX Weather's sister channel either (and don't get me started on the Byron Allen scripted courtroom shows...), moreover I do appreciate all the options we now have for weather information, particularly in this case, localized weather info. I know localized versions of WN are available sporadically OTA,  but I'm happy to see this wider distribution via means such as Pluto. 

 

I imagine most of the major cities will have localized WN available on Pluto, but I'm curious as to what some of you might see when checking it out for yourselves. 

Not to sound Naive here---Real America's Voice, what is that??  I've never heard of it or seen it.   Is it similar to One America News?

[PhillyWatch 238]

15 minutes ago, DENDude said:

Not to sound Naive here---Real America's Voice, what is that??  I've never heard of it or seen it.   Is it similar to One America News?

Yes, a streaming "news" channel that's basically closer to a Q-anon message board than it is to Fox News. I believe they host Steve Bannon's "show", which says about everything there is to say about them.