AccuWeather, Inc. | New Standards for the New Millennium

New Standards for the New Millennium

AccuWeather brought out a new PC-based Galileo Weather System in 2001. It soon became a leader in the TV broadcast industry, which had been dominated by the SGI platform for several years.

The company helped Allentown, Pennsylvania's WFMZTV develop an all-local, 24-hour weather channel for digital TV. Another new offering, Weather-Triggered Marketing, matched online ads to weather conditions based on users' zip codes.

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