How our Announcers Keep Your Weather Up to Date
Most stations run UnattendedWeather.Com software in the same computer they use for production. It can run on any Windows 2000 or XP computer in your station that has an always-on Internet connection. (Windows Vista can work but is not recommended due to possible reliability issues unrelated to our software.) Many stations run our software in their digital system in an on-air or production studio. Others run it on an ordinary office computer.


Your UnattendedWeather.Com voices have pre-recorded virtually every possible weather forecast, time and temperature. Each voice uses 5 GB of hard drive space. Then our software picks the right sentences based on forecasts from Internet weather sources. All recordings are CD quality uncompressed stereo from high quality studios. We never use low quality MP3s or telephone audio. Click here to hear samples.

Jingles or music beds can be added if desired. The finished 'cast overwrites an older version on the hard drive. Your digital system handles all playback, commercial insertions, sponsorship credits and logging. There's no work needed, no second computers to enter logs to schedule or bills to prepare for weather sponsors.

Our new technology means no wiring is needed and there's no equipment to buy. Your weather airs through the same digital system and sound card as your commercials so your sound is consistent.


Another benefit of UnattendedWeather.Com is that each of your stations can follow its own policy, have different lengths, content guidelines and air weather with different voices concurrently on every station in your cluster.
Several times each hour, and again minutes before every scheduled weathercast, our software checks your closest National Weather Service observations, plus any (optional) temperature, wind and rain sensors you have at your studios or sponsors. If TV stations, amateur or school weather stations are on line in your area and willing to permit your use of their data, your 'casts can include their info.

Make Extra Money from Weather Sponsors
Our authoritive voices make your weathercasts attention-getting vehicles to sell sponsorships at premium rates and long term contracts.


Many stations generate new revenue by selling weather packages of current temperatures at advertiser locations. Each 'cast can pick a few locations from participating sponsors. For example, your weather might end with "Now it's 74 at the Northtown Food Market on the bypass highway, 72 at Westway Ford on West Main Street, 75 at the Bank of Gibralter on East Main Street, and 73 here on the south bypass at WXXX."
Be sure to have these weather sponsors display classy signs or trophies that you provide with your logo certifying them as "Official WXXX Weather Watch Stations." Also, include weather data over a photo of the sponsor's location on your station's and the advertiser's websites.

For these locations, an optional sensor with Internet connection is installed at each location for temperature, rain and wind readings.


Safe and Secure
A firewall or proxy server is a good idea for all computers on the Internet. However, UnattendedWeather.Com only pulls content from our secure site, so the firewall software built into Windows Vista or XP can be set up to block all incoming messages. That means it's all you'll need to block other addresses and any incoming attempts to push spam or viruses to your computer. With several dozen sites, we've never had a virus attack on any of our clients' weather computers.

Our service has several advantages over distant providers because the audio is generated on the same computer that's recording all your production. It can even run on the computer that's on the air. For stations where Internet access isn't as reliable as one would hope, for the small investment of $200 for a computerized temperature/wind sensor, then the only reason we even need Internet access is for forecast data. And we store all that data so your stations always have the last available and will still sound good even if Internet connectivity was lost for 12-18 hours. Of course, the XML data feed can be read just as well with dial-up Internet as something faster, so our system works for clients who don't have broadband available (such as some transmitter sites).

Even the forecast and current data is available from several sources. Our software reads multiple XML data feeds after entering a zip code. Setup is 99% automatic. Our knowledgeable tech support people remotely do the other 1% of the setup for you.                                                                                                                          

For our new customers anxious to get started (and those of you who really research something before you commit) click here to download the UnattendedWeather Operations Manual. (Requires a free Adobe Acrobat Reader.)

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