Retro 8s Live / 'WeatherSTAR 4000 (style)'- June 28, 2023 [partial recording/snippet]

From June 27 to November 3, 2023, The Weather Channel has seemingly decided to bring back its famous Weather STAR 4000 (more accurately, its visuals) for an hour-long week-morning (3 AM CT) broadcast consisting of nationwide local forecasts with smooth jazz. Some may say that this is almost just like the real thing, although if I had to be perfectly honest, nothing can beat the real thing.

About the only critism I have about this (other than the font being used, admittedly it's pretty close to whatever the 4000 used back in the day.) is the lack of Current Conditions icons, as the only icon set that appears throughout (from the amount that I've seen of this) is often associated with the Regional Conditions/Regional Forecast segments.

The content provided is owned by The Weather Channel / Weather Group LLC / Allen Media Group. I am not affiliated with either company, just a long time fan of things like these. On the other hand, the music seems to be sourced from Transition Music according to YouTube's Content ID.

[elinery]

At least The Weather Channel tried to replicate the Weatherstar 4000 graphics, and it doesn’t look bad at all and looks okay at least. Also the current logo is being used but I will let slide probably they didn’t want to use their old logo for this.

[brianhebert]

I think it would be cool if they rotated through different sets of graphics every few weeks or so (for example, Intellistar graphics)

[WeatherSTARIII]

Wait... This actually aired? I did not see this coming.