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.

Company Perspectives:

AccuWeather Mission: To save lives, protect property, and help people to prosper, while expanding AccuWeather as a healthy and profitable business.

AccuWeather Vision: To be the world's best and mostused source of weather information.

AccuWeather Values: To achieve AccuWeather's mission, we require great people with great values. AccuWeather seeks to recruit, develop and retain people who are intelligent, innovative, and entrepreneurial, who take pride in their work, and who passionately share AccuWeather's values: Respect, honesty and trust; Commitment and responsibility; Collaboration and communication; Quality and accuracy; Service to internal and external customers; Efficiency, productivity and achievement.

Key Dates:

1962:
As a Penn State grad student, Dr. Joel N. Myers begins forecasting for a local gas company.
1968:
Myers begins forecasting weather for a local public TV station.
1971:
Myers lands his first radio account; the Accu-Weather name is introduced.
1974:
The newspaper product is introduced.
1979:
The AccuData database is introduced.
1986:
AccuWeather begins producing weather maps for the Associated Press.
1997:
The Exclusive AccuWeather RealFeel Temperature index is introduced as an improvement to the heat index.
2001:
Galileo Weather System is offered to TV stations.
2003:
AccuWeather launches the first high-definition TV weather system.

In 2002, AccuWeather acquired the United Kingdom's OnlineWeather, as well as the newspaper businesses of Weather-Data, Inc. and Meteorlogix, LLC. AccuWeather was providing graphical weather data for a variety of wireless devices. It was also at the forefront of an industry trend to provide increasingly more precise local weather data. In 2003, AccuWeather launched the world's first high-definition TV weather system via Cablevision's VOOM service.

Also in 2003, AccuWeather launched its Wireless Weather application that provides 24-hour weather forecasts, radar images, and severe weather watches and warnings to cell phones. In 2005, AccuWeather launched its Local AccuWeather Channel, an automated around-the-clock loop of customized local weather and news information for cable stations.