Weather Channel will introduce an attack video Tuesday as part of a carriage battle with DirecTV that's left the network dark on the satellite provider for nearly a month.The commercial, which was developed in-house and produced by State Line Films, is a parody of DirecTV's ongoing "Get rid of cable" campaign and was designed to capture DirecTV subscribers' frustration over the blackout, said Scot Safon, exec VP and chief marketing officer, Weather Channel. Here's the Weather Channel spoof:Here's some of the inspiration:
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