The Weather Channel (Latin America)

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The Weather Channel Latin America
The logo used in The Weather Channel Latin America. It was used in United States in the same period.
CountryLatin America (including Hispanophone areas of the United States)
Broadcast area Latin America and the Caribbean [1]
Headquarters Atlanta
Buenos Aires
Mexico City
Sao Paulo
Programming
Language(s)Spanish
Portuguese
Picture format 480i (SDTV)
Ownership
Owner Landmark Media Enterprises
History
Launched1996 (Latin America)
1998 (Brazil)
ClosedDecember 20, 2002

The Weather Channel Latin America (Spanish: El Canal del Tiempo, Portuguese: Canal do Tempo) is a website which formerly served as a cable and satellite channel based on the American cable and satellite television network, The Weather Channel. The channel was launched in 1996, mainly in Mexico, Colombia, and Argentina, [2] before going on to launch a Portuguese language version for Brazil in 1998. The channel operated from Atlanta, with later sales offices initiated in several Latin American countries, until December 20, 2002, when the network closed the channel to avoid cost cuts at its American operations.

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Programs [3]

Pronóstico Local / Previsão Local

The Latin American version of Local on the 8s, generated on the Weather Star XL platform. Forecasts aired every 10 minutes on the "0s" on the Spanish version and on the "5s" in Brazil. The length of segments is uniformly 2.5 and 5 minutes respectively. Some of the music used for these forecasts ended up playing on Weatherscan operated by The Weather Channel in 2003.

Meteorologists/Forecasters/Executives

Director of Meteorology: Raul E. Jimenez. Meteorologists (Forecasters): Gladys Diaz, Kathy Hoffman, Jose Lezcano, Vinicius Ubarana, Jacquelina Michienzi.

Director of Production/Programming: Antonio La Greca.

Manager of Production/Programming: Marisa Garcia - Villanueva

Coordinating Producer: Luis Alberto Gonzalez

Former Broadcasters

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References

  1. "Nassau (Bahamas) Intellistar I: 8/5/11 1:48 A.M." Archived from the original on 2021-12-20 via www.youtube.com.
  2. "Pantalla chica". May 10, 2000 via La Nación (Argentina).
  3. "espanol.weather.com - Televisión". 2002-03-12. Archived from the original on 2002-03-12. Retrieved 2019-04-26.
  4. "espanol.weather.com - Televisión". 2002-03-17. Archived from the original on 2002-03-17.

Websites

The Weather Channel still has a Latin American website as well as a Brazilian version.