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Weekend Now
'''Weekend Now''' was a weather program on The Weather Channel that aired weekends from 11 a.m-2 p.m. ET. The program featured the weather for the weekend, same as ''[[Weekend View]].''

== Program history ==
[[File:Weekend Now.jpg|thumb|Weekend Now logo from 2008{{When}} to November 10, 2013.]]
Weekend Now debuted in 2001 two months before the channel's debut of Live By It. It originally started as ''Weekend:Now.'' The show was first anchored by Kelly Cass and Bill Keneely and the other was Melissa Barrington and Bob Stokes. Any given hour of the program would be hosted by one team while a member of the other team provided special segments like the ''Travel Forecast'' and ''Weather Maker''.

Their graphics were the same as The Weather Channel's, using a blue scheme, and most notable is the voices of Strokes and Cass.

In 2003, Weekend Planner launched and the show was given a new timeslot, 11 a.m-2 p.m. ET. Unlike the original, the program contained less segments than ''Weather Center and PM Edition.'' On August 2, 2008, The program started airing in [[High-definition television|high-definition]].

Weekend Now is the oldest program, as ''[[Weekend View]]'' launched on Saturday October 1, 2005 and ''[[Weekend Outlook]]'' ended in March 2009 after six years.

he show had its first official anchors in November 2004: Kevin Robinson and Kristina Abernathy. In September 2007, Abernathy left the show and was replaced by Jennifer Lopez. Shortly after that, in June 2008, Lopez left the show and was replaced by Kim Perez (now Kim Cunningham). In March 2009, Kim Perez left for ''PM Edition'' and Kevin Robinson left for ''Your Weather Today''. Carl Parker and Heather Tesch replaced (contracted; show full)
* Todd Santos (2010-2012) (left for ''Weather Center Live'')
* Heather Tesch (2009-2010, 2012) (left in November 2010 for ''Day Planner''; returned in April 2012; left the show and departed The Weather Channel on October 30, 2012)
* Alex Wallace (2012-2013) (program cancellation)
* Alexandra Wilson (2013) (left ''Weekend Now'' for ''Weather Center Live'')