Uploaded January 2024 | Updated September 2026, 40 minutes ago
[As of a few hours after uploading, the child was recovered safely. (source: KCRG)]
First (uploaded) Emergency Alert System capture of the year: A Child Abduction Emergency/Amber Alert message for the state of Iowa, aired during the afternoon hours of January 30, 2024. First activation was received over Common Alerting Protocol (CAP), with the second being the local National Weather Service office's relay.
Per usual, the video feed utilizes a decommissioned Trilithic EASyPLUS receiving audio from a local radio station (KGLI-FM) and recorded onto a blank VHS tape (although the second activation was captured directly from the unit.)
Another activation was done with slightly updated details at the exact same time I went to upload this. It has been separated into its own upload: youtu.be/VCNAqBGjSS8
[As of a few hours after uploading, the child was recovered safely. (source: KCRG)]
First (uploaded) Emergency Alert System capture of the year: A Child Abduction Emergency/Amber Alert message for the state of Iowa, aired during the afternoon hours of January 30, 2024. First activation was received over Common Alerting Protocol (CAP), with the second being the local National Weather Service office's relay.
Per usual, the video feed utilizes a decommissioned Trilithic EASyPLUS receiving audio from a local radio station (KGLI-FM) and recorded onto a blank VHS tape (although the second activation was captured directly from the unit.)
Another activation was done with slightly updated details at the exact same time I went to upload this. It has been separated into its own upload: youtu.be/VCNAqBGjSS8
![Retro 8s Live / WeatherSTAR 4000 (style)- June 28, 2023 [partial recording/snippet]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/ngrzO93cu4A/mqdefault.jpg "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 its 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 Ive 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 YouTubes Content ID.
Clipped around Cincinnati since a TCF recreation follows shortly and I wanted to provide some high quality footage of that. For the curious, the full hour has been re-uploaded by TWCZach: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GcH63awa5ow")
![Paramount Television [90th Anniversary] (2002, in-credit, HQ)](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/odkAZoWL05o/mqdefault.jpg "Paramount Television [90th Anniversary] (2002, in-credit, HQ)
Taken from an airing of Entertainment Tonight on March 10, 2002.*
[*exact date unconfirmed.]
Previous upload was captured with a mono-only VCR and had a watermark in the lower right corner.")
