More than 80 Million Watch the Weather

  • April 12, 2001
The Weather Channel surpassed the 80 million mark in subscriber households as of April, according to the most recent estimates released by Nielsen. The milestone was reached just weeks before the network will celebrate its 19th anniversary on May 2. The Weather Channel is one of 12 networks that have surpassed the 80 million subscriber threshold among the 54 cable networks calibrated by Nielsen. With penetration to over 80 million households, the all-weather network reaches 95 percent of the total cable TV universe.

- Adam Bernard

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