the reason for the discrepancies is that Verizon is a "regionalized" system. Last I heard they only have 15 VHO's (video hub offices) Each of those VHO's then send the channel to everyone in that area. So for example. Lets say that there is a VHO is Philadelphia and that VHO services Eastern PA, Southern NJ, and DE. Now everyone that receives service from that VHO will get the same Weather info. So they provide the weather channel with the VHO location, in this case Philadelphia and everyone serviced by that VHO will get the local on the 8's for Philadelphia.
Now the cable companies have theirs set for local instead of regional. so they have LHO's (local hub offices). These are generally located in each city, or if the city is very large it may even go down to the zip code level. Thats why when you turn to their weather channel it shows it for the zip code you are in.
Here's the deal. The cable companies have been at this for 20+ years. They've had time to build all of these local offices and get the local info into their systems. Verizon has only been at this for what? 4 years? They havent had time to get the local systems built in. Other companies have had the same issue. Look at Direct TV, It took them about 10 years from the time that they launched back in 1994, before they got to the point that they could even begin to send the local weather info.
Given time so will Verizon. Shoot, it wasnt long ago when there was no such thing as local channels on Verizon. Now there are a lot of local channels becoming available with more being added all the time. So progress is being made. It just doest happen overnight.
Message Edited by spacedebris on 08-05-2009 03:30 PM
Message Edited by spacedebris on 08-05-2009 03:31 PM
