Shameful plug, but I have a weather channel on channel surfer: https://channelsurfer.tv/?ch=50
This is rad. Any info on running it on a small box for the living room? It would be perfect for my parents.
The Weather Channel – RetroCast
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Re: The Weather Channel – RetroCast
#62This needs to be an Apple TV app!! Way more fun than watching fly by skyscrapers.
Get this man to Apple
Re: The Weather Channel – RetroCast
#63Earlier quoted context omitted.
I could be remembering wrong but I believe that's a (the?) track they actually used back when this was on TV
I can't remember either but they nailed it. When the sax comes in and the voice overlay hit's you with "Your extended forecast"; I'm right back in the kitchen before school eating cereal with the kitchen TV on the weather channel. Edit: another comment mentioned it was generated with Suno
Wow; a win for Suno if true!
Re: The Weather Channel – RetroCast
#64This appears to be a fairly low effort simulation of a WeatherStar 4000, but it's been done much better by someone else here: https://weatherstar.netbymatt.com/ Also for those of us like me who grew up with a cable provider that still ran the old WeatherStar III, there's this one: https://weatherstar3000.netbymatt.com/
This reminds me of a sports channel I recall from the late 80s on cable TV. Sportsnet? Sportswire? I can't find anything about it online but I remember the music well.
Re: The Weather Channel – RetroCast
#65This appears to be a fairly low effort simulation of a WeatherStar 4000, but it's been done much better by someone else here: https://weatherstar.netbymatt.com/ Also for those of us like me who grew up with a cable provider that still ran the old WeatherStar III, there's this one: https://weatherstar3000.netbymatt.com/
This may be an age or geography thing, but Weather.com/Retro looks a lot more like the weather channels I remember than either of your two links. I don't think they were trying to recreate the thing you were expecting, but it seems a little harsh to call it low effort. It's neat! A fun little nod to their history.
> This may be an age or geography thing, but Weather.com/Retro looks a lot more like the weather channels I remember than either of your two links.
That'll be a memory thing then, because unsurprisingly there are some serious Weather Channel nerds out there and the history of the local programming as well as the STARs that powered it is quite well documented.
The only thing that looked anything like this was the WS4000. WeatherStar III and Jr. didn't have graphics at all while WeatherStar XL had a much more modern graphic design.
If you want to nerd out on this stuff, here's a good link to start with: https://www.twcarchive.com/wiki/Weather_Star