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WEVE GOT YOUR WEATHER AND A WHOLE LOT MORE CBS46 Atlantas NewsChannel and Scana Energy Bring StormTracker 46 Instant Weather to Your Desktop

You can now get weather reports for your neighborbood twenty four hours a day, seven days a week by adding a free download to your computer desktop. CBS46 Atlanta's Newschannel and Scana Energy have teamed up to provide a unique, service for everyone in the CBS46 viewing area.

                                                 PRESS RELEASE
425 14th Street, NW Atlanta, Georgia, 30318


For Immediate Release
CONTACT:                
Nicole Husband                                    
Community Relations Director                
CBS46 Atlantas NewsChannel                  
404/327-3159


WEVE GOT YOUR WEATHER AND A WHOLE LOT MORE
CBS46 Atlantas NewsChannel and Scana Energy Bring StormTracker 46 Instant Weather to Your Desktop

Atlanta, GA, October 28, 2003 CBS46 Atlantas NewsChannel and Scana Energy have teamed up to bring instant weather to your computer desktop twenty-four (24) hours a day seven (7) days a week. Their recently launched StormTracker 46 Instant Weather system can be accessed on the web at www.cbs46.com. With a simple, quick, free- download, you will have access to the powerful StormTracker technology that has put CBS46 at the forefront of Atlanta weather reporting.

We are so pleased that our StormTracker Technology is now available to viewers on their computer desktop. Taking the information to the neighborhood level and making it available 24 hours a day is a vast expansion of our service. We are the only Atlanta station to have the StormTracker technology which can pinpoint weather in your neighborhood.    When viewers download StormTracker 46 Instant Weather, we think theyll be amazed at how easy it is to find out whats going on," said Chief Meteorologist, Gene Norman.
The features of StormTracker 46 Instant Weather include:
·   Its LIVE, 24 hours a day
·   Gives you access to Radar, Temperatures, Humidity and Wind Speed for your neighborhood and the nation
·   Gives you access to Severe Weather Alerts for your county as they are issued by the National Weather Service
·   Displays your current neighborhood temperature on your task bar, even when the desktop is closed
·   Tracks hurricanes
·   Allows you to access your neighborhood forecast from cbs46.com
·   Other alerts include breaking news, Amber Alerts, and Homeland Security messages

In addition to the weather, the program allows you to access news headlines updated 24 hours a day from your neighborhood and the world.

SCANA Energy, serving more than 350,000 customers, is the second-largest marketer of natural gas in Georgia. The company also has a regulated unit, SCANA Energy Regulated Division, selected as the state's only regulated natural gas provider.

Meredith Corporation (www.meredith.com) is one of the nation's leading media and marketing companies with core competencies in magazine and book publishing, television broadcasting, integrated marketing and interactive media. Meredith owns 11 television stations that reach nearly 9 percent of television households across the country: WGCL-TV (CBS), Atlanta; KPHO-TV (CBS), Phoenix, AZ; KPTV (UPN), Portland, OR; KPDX-TV (FOX), Portland, OR; WFSB-TV (CBS), Hartford-New Haven, CT; WSMV-TV (NBC), Nashville, TN; KCTV (CBS), Kansas City, MO; WHNS-TV (FOX), Greenville-Spartanburg-Anderson, SC-Asheville, NC; WNEM-TV (CBS), Flint-Saginaw, MI; KVVU-TV (FOX), Las Vegas, NV; and KFXO-CA (FOX), Bend, OR.

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