Evening Edition
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Evening Edition was a weather program broadcast by The Weather Channel
The Weather Channel
The Weather Channel is a US cable and satellite television network since May 2, 1982, that broadcasts weather forecasts and weather-related news, along with entertainment programming related to weather 24 hours a day...

. Evening Edition included multiple hours of programming, cut into by long-form programs such as When Weather Changed History
When Weather Changed History
When Weather Changed History is a high-definition television series from The Weather Channel. It chronicles major events in history and the effect weather had on them.-Program History:...

, as well as a repeating overnight hour.

Program history

Evening Edition debuted in 2001, the first program to cut into the time slot of Weather Center
Weather Center
Weather Center Live, previously named Weather Center from its March 2009 relaunch until May 2011, is a weather news program produced by The Weather Channel in Atlanta, Georgia.-Program history:...

, as part of a shift from 24-hour Weather Center to multiple focused programs that occurred during 2000 and 2001.

Because of long-form programs, Evening Edition aired its first hour, then long-form programs, then two hours, then long-form programs repeated from earlier, followed by the overnight hour.

During the final five months of the its run, the first hour of Evening Edition aired at 8 PM ET instead of 9 PM ET was hosted by Stephanie Abrams
Stephanie Abrams
Stephanie Abrams is an American on-camera meteorologist for The Weather Channel, a 24-hour American cable television weather program. She has also done live reporting for the 2010 Winter Olympics at Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.-Early life:...

 and Mike Bettes and, for most intents and purposes, was an extension of the preceding program, Abrams & Bettes: Beyond the Forecast
Abrams & Bettes: Beyond the Forecast
Abrams & Bettes Beyond the Forecast, commonly abbreviated Abrams & Bettes, Beyond the Forecast, or A&B, was a weather program produced by The Weather Channel.-Program history:...

. The second and third hours were the main program, hosted by Jim Cantore
Jim Cantore
James D. Cantore is an American meteorologist. He is best known as an on-air personality for The Weather Channel.- Career :...

, Paul Goodloe, and Alexandra Steele.

The overnight hour aired live after the second hour of long-form programs (repeated from the first hour). It was hosted by one meteorologist, and then was repeated twice until the next morning's first program (either First Outlook
First Outlook
First Outlook is a morning weather program produced by The Weather Channel, an American television channel. The program regularly airs from 4-6 a.m...

 on weekdays or When Weather Changed History
When Weather Changed History
When Weather Changed History is a high-definition television series from The Weather Channel. It chronicles major events in history and the effect weather had on them.-Program History:...

 on weekends).

It was revealed via changes to electronic program guide
Electronic program guide
Electronic program guides and interactive program guides provide users of television, radio, and other media applications with continuously updated menus displaying broadcast programming or scheduling information for current and upcoming programming...

 systems and through an inadvertent image change on the TWC media kit website that the show's time slots would be given to a relaunched version of Weather Center
Weather Center
Weather Center Live, previously named Weather Center from its March 2009 relaunch until May 2011, is a weather news program produced by The Weather Channel in Atlanta, Georgia.-Program history:...

, which contains a mix of the traditional Evening Edition format as well as new segments. Weekends were also slated to feature a PM Edition Weekend
PM Edition
PM Edition is a weather program on The Weather Channel, an American television station. It focuses on weather conditions for the evening commute...

in place of Evening Edition, but only for three hours - it later turned out that Weather Center was to take this over too. The remainder of the weekend evenings now feature long-form programming.

Evening Edition's final broadcast aired March 1, 2009.
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