Interesting how you are spinning the numbers.
250k viewers a day, placed TWC at the #43 spot overall for 2017, ahead of CNBC, CMT, Disney XD, ESPN2, BBC America, and a ton of others that Verizon chooses to carry.
TWC was named “TV News Brand of the Year” for seven years in a row by Harris Poll.
The Weather Channel reached almost 70 million Americans in 2017. It was No. 1 in total day viewers during the week of Hurricane Irma (week of Sept. 4, 2017), and averaged more than 1 million adults 25-54 on Friday, Sept. 8 in prime time, peaking at 3 million total viewers during the 11 p.m. hour. Those figures gave TWC its most-watched night since Superstorm Sandy in fall of 2012.
During the weekend of Hurricane Harvey, TWC was No. 1 in total viewers and in the A25-54 demographic. During the height of the storm, Friday through Sunday, the network reached over 37 million viewers, with 1 in 5 American households tuning into The Weather Channel.
Although you might say that those numbers were because of the storm, so what? Storms happen. And even during nor weather related events like the Solar Eclipse, TWC delivered nearly 1.7 million total viewers and 459,000 demo viewers that day, No. 3 across cable TV.
So knock it off with your line about lack of viewership.
Because TWC did all of that last year without Fios.