GoKawiilPeople who pay for a subscription to livestream The Weather Channel via its dedicated smart TV app are seeing a 66.7 percent price hike.
The TV app, available via Android TV, Fire TV, Roku, and Samsung TVs, used to cost $3 per month, or $30 per year. According to the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine, those prices were valid as recently as April 2026. Now, a subscription to the streaming app is $5 per month, or $50 per year, as first reported today by Cord Cutters News.
In addition to livestreaming The Weather Channel’s broadcast network, The Weather Channel TV app also offers on-demand shows, local forecasts, maps, radars, and news. The app launched in May 2022, allowing people to access The Weather Channel’s reporting without a cable or satellite TV subscription.
Interestingly, the new $5 per month price matches what Allen Media Group, which bought The Weather Channel in 2018, wanted to charge for The Weather Channel Plus, which a 2021 press release described as a subscription service that would have over “50 news and entertainment streaming channels for a launch in the fourth quarter of 2021” and that its owner expected to reach “30 million subscribers in its first five years.” The Weather Channel Plus never actually became available. Instead, The Weather Channel is only getting its streaming subscription revenue from the original app, which does not include dozens of streaming channels.