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AWS Online

A turnkey solution to integrating live, local weather conditions from your School WeatherNet into your stations web page.

Provide you viewers with the information they want:

  • Live, local weather conditions - changing up-to-the-second
  • Match your on-air look à on the web
  • Highly promotable
  • Drives repeat hits to your web page
  • Enhances sponsor package(s)
  • Extends your unique on-air look to every computer in the DMA

    • "Hits to the NBC10 web page doubled when we debuted the AWS WeatherNet online…", Chris McCown, Manager, Multimedia and Information Technologies, WCAU-TV Philadelphia

    AWS Online Service Includes:

  • Development of the WeatherNet home pages using custom station base maps, on-air screens and station/sponsor logos and banners
  • Operation and Maintenance of the WeatherNet home page:
    Dissemination of real time and/or near real time data from remote AirWatch sites
    Integrate new sites into home page
    Update station/sponsor/school hyperlinks
    Links to Station/Sponsor Logos
  • Internet Displays:
    Interactive maps
    Non-java tables
    Java scripts to match on-air look
    Multiple site mapping displays
    SkyCam Java displays
  • Free upgrades to AirWatch Weather Server software, on-air software
  • Periodic checks of data quality and online status of remote sites
  • Monthly reports of all Internet traffic (hits and user sessions) to WeatherNet page

    • Station Requirements:

  • Pentium computer for AirWatch Online Weather Server software (Pentium PC w/ WIN 95 or NT, 32 MB RAM, 2 GB HD, 3-COM PCI Ethernet Card, SVGA monitor, two free serial ports, 2400/9600 Baud External modem, keyboard and MS bus mouse)
  • Direct, high speed Internet connection (T-1, ISDN, 56k)
  • Data collection daily from modem based sites.
  • Analog phone line for data access from remote modem based sites.
  • Station base maps, on-air graphics and station/sponsor logos and banners
  • FTP server running on computer