Winter Weather Advisory: Some station sites unavailable outside U.S.

Visitors searching for winter weather advisory information on certain local broadcast pages found access blocked when attempting to view those sites from outside the United States. The pages from WHIO TV 7 and WHIO Radio displayed a location restriction message, and a WLWT page returned a "Site Not Available" title with no body text present.

Winter Weather Advisory access blocked

The material retrieved from the WHIO page carried the line "This website is unavailable in your location. " That page also included the full notification: "It appears you are attempting to access this website from a country outside of the United States, therefore access cannot be granted at this time. " The language on the page makes clear the block is based on geographic location.

WHIO site shows access message

The title string for the WHIO page in the retrieved content read: "This website is unavailable in your location. – WHIO TV 7 and WHIO Radio. " The body of that page repeated the headline evacuation of access with the explanatory sentence about attempting to access the website from a country outside of the United States and that access cannot be granted at this time.

WLWT page status unclear

The WLWT item returned the title "Site Not Available. " The retrieved content for WLWT contained no additional text beyond the page title in the available record; the page body was empty in the captured information.

Sequence of what appears

The sequence reflected in the captured pages is straightforward: a visitor attempts to load the site, the site displays the message "This website is unavailable in your location, " and the WHIO text explains that the attempt appears to originate from a country outside of the United States and that access cannot be granted at this time. For WLWT, the sequence ends at the title "Site Not Available" with no further text present in the retrieved content.