How about weather streaming news wars? Fox News Media is venturing into the weather news industry with this week's launch of Fox Weather, an effort to bolster its streaming services and amass a larger audience outside of politics and sports. With its big bet on weather, Fox is entering a crowded field of climate news providers, where it will compete daily with smartphone apps, local television broadcasts and household-name brands like The Weather Channel and Accuweather. When it went live for the first time on Monday, Fox Weather debuted for viewers a state-of-the-art storm-tracking and radar equipment that the New York City-based team will use to provide content for the Fox Weather app and other platforms. ADVERTISEMENTIn 2008, NBC Universal shut down its digital weather service, “NBC Weather Plus” after just four years following the company’s purchase of a minority stake in The Weather Channel, TVWeek reported.

Source: Fox News October 31, 2021 10:18 UTC