Landmark Communications owns The Weather
Channel and Landmark Travel Channel Limited (UK).
The Weather Channel, Inc.
The Weather
Channel's U.S. network, based in Atlanta, produces continuous, 24-hour
national, regional and local weather-related video programming distributed
by satellite to cable television systems and other video distributors, as
well as to households with satellite receiver dishes. The network is
received by more than 84 million households and can be seen in 95% of all
cable TV homes nationwide.
Weatherscan Local is The Weather Channel's all-local, all-the-time
service, intended for distribution primarily on digital cable. It is in
the process of being deployed and as of March 2002, was seen in 3.5
million cable households.
The Weather Channel Radio Network
The Weather Channel Radio
Network (TWCRN) provides local and severe weather reports directly to over
215 radio stations in 90 U.S. markets, including New York, Chicago,
Philadelphia, Washington DC, Detroit, Atlanta, Houston and Miami. Just one
report across the network reaches over 1 million listeners in the 25-54
age demographic. TWCRN also provides reports to two state radio networks
and is the weather provider for both satellite radio distributors, XM
Satellite Radio and Sirius Satellite Radio. Both have channels dedicated
exclusively to weather.
Newspaper Services
The Weather Channel, through a partnership
with Tribune Media Services and Weather Central, Inc. syndicates a
newspaper weather page to over 60 newspapers nationwide with a combined
circulation of over 8 million. The Weather Channel also provides weather
information for the weather page of USA TODAY with a circulation of 2.3
million as well as for the international editions of USA TODAY and the
usatoday.com weather pages.
The Weather Channel International
The Weather Channel
Latin America
The international divisions of The Weather Channel
include: El Canal del Tiempo, a Spanish language network, and O Canal do
Tempo, a Portugese-language network for Brazil. The sales and marketing
forces for the two networks, which serve Latin America and the Caribbean,
are based in Miami. TWC-Latin America has distribution in every country in
Latin America except Uruguay. The networks are broadcast from Atlanta.
International Web sites
The Weather Channel continues to
expand its international reach with the launch of language-specific sites
for the United Kingdom (www.weather.co.uk), Germany (www.daswetter.com),
Latin America (www.weather.com/espanol), and
Brazil (www.canaldotempo.com).
The Weather Channel is a 50% owner of Pelmorex, Inc., the Canadian
company that owns The Weather Network and Meteo Media which have a
standing in Canada equivalent to TWC in the United States.
weather.com
The Weather Channel Web site, www.weather.com, is the leading weather
provider on the web. The site averages more than 350 million page views
every month and is consistently ranked among the top five news and
information sites by Nielsen//NetRatings. weather.com is also the leading
provider of broadband and wireless weather products via high-speed
Internet services, phones, pagers, Palm Pilots, and other personal digital
assistants. Partnerships include America Online, Yahoo!, USA Today.com,
AT&T WorldNet, ABCNews.com, Digital City, Road Runner, Verison
Wireless, Cingular, AT&T Wireless, Sprint PCS, AvantGo and Palm
Computing.
The Weather Channel New Media and Interactive TV
The Weather
Channel New Media & Interactive TV Division is the leading weather
provider for new and emerging technologies, playing a cutting edge role in
designing, developing and implementing unique interactive and new media
products including enhanced TV and virtual channels. Customers and
alliances include top middleware companies, application providers and
service providers such as AT&T Broadband, DirecTV, Liberate, Source
Media, Microsoft TV, Canal Plus, WINK, WorldGate, WebTV and AOLTV.
Decker Anstrom is President and Chief Operating Officer, Landmark
Communications; CEO, The Weather Channel Companies. Bill Burke is
President, The Weather Channel Companies. Patrick Scott is President, The
Weather Channel Networks. Debora Wilson is President and CEO, weather.com.
Eduardo Ruiz is President, International Business Development.
The Weather Channel
300 Interstate North
Parkway
Atlanta, GA 30339
phone: 770.226.0000
fax:
770.226.2930
Landmark Communications owns Landmark Travel Channel Limited, www.travelchannel.co.uk, based
in London. Travel is an English-language service broadcasting
travel-related programming to more than five million in the United
Kingdom, continental Europe and southern African countries. Richard Wolfe
is Chief Executive.
Landmark Travel Channel Limited
66 Newman
St.
London, England W1P3LA
phone: 011.44.207.636.5401
fax:
011.44.207.636.6424