AccuWeather has evolved its broadcast and streaming production infrastructure to take advantage of unified services offered by Amagi, the companies announced on Sunday.
The upgrade replaces AccuWeather’s legacy broadcast environment with an IP-based, internet-driven workflow that enables the company to manage its linear channels and streaming services from a single platform. The move is designed to improve operational efficiency, reduce costs and allow for faster scaling across distribution endpoints.
Central to the deployment is Amagi’s Master Control Room in Princeton, New Jersey, where both the technology stack and managed services are integrated under one provider. The setup allows Amagi to oversee playout, monitoring and optimization of AccuWeather’s broadcast operations, including its linear and free ad-supported streaming television (FAST) channels.
“Managed Services is at the heart of this engagement,” said Srinivasan KA, Co-founder and President of Global Business at Amagi, in a statement. “Our role is not just to provide cloud playout technology, but to actively operate, monitor and optimize mission-critical broadcast environments with a unified approach.”
The expanded partnership builds on an earlier collaboration that began in 2021, when AccuWeather launched its FAST channels using Amagi’s platform. The latest phase extends that relationship by introducing a fully IP-based distribution model and consolidating workflows that were previously handled across separate systems.
As part of the modernization, AccuWeather gains enhanced regionalization capabilities through advanced sub-feed management, allowing for localized weather coverage and customized graphics across multiple markets. The unified system also enables faster turnaround times for live programming, including breaking weather alerts and severe storm coverage, which remain core to the company’s service offering.
The cloud-based architecture is expected to accelerate product development cycles by allowing new features and workflow improvements to be deployed more quickly, while maintaining broadcast-grade reliability.
“At AccuWeather, delivering timely continuous weather content, forecasts and severe weather coverage requires a modern, scalable distribution infrastructure, which is why we partnered with Amagi,” said Helen Swenson, the Chief Content Officer at AccuWeather, in a statement. “By consolidating our linear and OTT (over-the-top) distribution on Amagi’s platform, we are simplifying operations and improving efficiency.”
The companies said the integrated approach was part of a broader shift within the media industry toward using unified, cloud-native workforce that support both streaming and traditional broadcast distribution models.
AccuWeather offers a free streaming channel called AccuWeather Now that is available across free, ad-supported streaming TV platforms like The Roku Channel, Samsung TV Plus, Vizio WatchFree Plus, Xumo Play and other services. The company also distributes the AccuWeather Network, available on premium services like Philo, Spectrum TV, DIRECTV and Fubo.
AccuWeather’s forecasts are accessible through a free smartphone and tablet app and on the AccuWeather website.
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