Scott Olson
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I might not sure the government can do much. Maybe if the NWS was a commercial entity it would be able to. Remember Whitehouse.com & Whitehouse.org I could swear one of those was a porn site.
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Robert Dewey
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Yeah, it was a porn site - I remember kids in school always surfing to it on accident. The government made them put up a front page stating that it was not affiliated with the actual Whitehouse/government...David Schuttler
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It's down now......Aaron Kennedy
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LOL. Who's the Accuweather spy? Remember the last incident? Within hours the controversial text was down. What a fiasco. It's almost like they have an employee or two to just raise a rukus.
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Dan Cook
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I wanted to see it. :cry:rdale
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It was just a link to AW's homepage.
Bill Hamilton
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I just saw this last night. A news channel in Texas (KFDX) is using AccuWeather as one of there main weather forecasting partners. Now that is just plain sad when they don't trust their own forecast enough and have to bring in outside help.
http://www.kfdx.com/weather/rdale
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Many TV stations just do that for the name recognition provided by AW.
- Rob
Bill Hamilton
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This is the first I have seen around here. All the news channels in the OKC metro area do their own. I think they know if they mention AccuWeather they would get laughed out of there.
Robert Dewey
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Quite a few stations around here do it as well. It's not as uncommon as you might think. Heck, our local news radio station outsources the entire met department to Accuweather - in other words, some guy in College Station, PA is doing the weather for us folks over in MI. Either way though, they are all looking at the same data I suppose.Roger Edwards
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I got alerted to this several days ago, right before the Accuwx page disappeared from that site. [Maybe the person who forwarded this to me got it off ST while my PC was in the hospital. I haven't logged into ST in a long time.]
Curious and with a half hour or so to spare, I did some digging and came up with the following. Take it for how much or little it's worth.
http://www.stormeyes.org/tornado/blog/arch...domain_name.php
Robert Dewey
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Hmm, that is strange... I wonder what's in the "men in black" (/mib/area51) folder.
Maybe they are forecasting for the Area 51 military installation, or they are forecasting for future UFO landings? :lol:
Chris Nuttall
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Okay. I give up. Aaron caught me red-handed. j/k
On a semi-serious note...wow. This certainly isn't the first time something like this has happened. It even affects multi-billion dollar coporations. IIRC, a couple of years ago, the World Wrestling Federation was forced to change it's name from WWF to WWE (World Wrestling Entertainment). Apparently, someone had already trademarked WWF.com and the WWF moniker and sued them. It actually worked in their favor. Their new logo is simply WW. The genius PR folks starting highly successful marketing campaign with T-shirts and other stuff featuring the new WW logo along with the saying "Get the F out!"Similar threads
