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| Appalachian Skies Media, LLC, based in Charleston, West Virginia, provides a variety of professional media services ranging from television photography to web site design. Our primary focus is regular coverage of weather events across the United States for national television broadcasts. Please feel free to explore our site to learn more about the services offered by Appalachian Skies.
LATEST NEWS:
January 2: Appalachian Skies has video of the lightning storm suspected of causing the explosion at the Sago coal mine in Tallmansville, West Virginia. See our Breaking News Page for more information.
DECEMBER 27: Appalachian Skies has video and still imagery from the Lakeview Drive overpass / bridge collapse on Interstate 70 in Washington, PA. See our Breaking News Page for more information.
 ENG News Video Services
Appalachian Skies Media works in partnership with Minneapolis-based Breaking News Video Network (BNVN, on the web at bnvn.com) to regularly provide current video of weather events across the USA for national broadcast on The Weather Channel and other media outlets. Appalachian Skies owns and operates a mobile ENG (electronic news gathering) system specially equipped for coverage of weather events anywhere in the country.
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 Weather Stock Video Footage
Through our intensive coverage of weather events across the United States, Appalachian Skies Media has been able to build a large archive of stock weather footage available for licensing. Both standard definition and high-definition content is available. Our footage library, located at our StormScenes web site, features hard-to-find video of extreme weather events at competitive per-second rates. Our turnaround time for licensing and providing footage is fast, in most cases less than two days. The StormScenes site provides sample video clips of all available material.
StormScenes Home Page
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 High-Voltage Machine Rentals and Demonstrations
Appalachian Skies Media owns and operates specialized high-voltage machines used to produce electrostatic phenomena (static electricity). We own two Van de Graaff generators (large and small) and a Wimshurst machine, devices that are great attention-grabbers at conventions, trade shows, science expositions and educational functions. Our electrostatic machines are identical to the models found in the nation's top science museums and university physics laboratories. These machines can generate up to 400,000 volts and be used to perform hair-raising tricks, create intense, bright and loud 'miniature lightning' sparks up to 8" long, and much more.
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 wvlightning.com
The most important and most visible aspect of Appalachian Skies is the wvlightning.com web site. wvlightning.com is a popular weather and storm chasing web site that also serves as an evangelistic ministry. The site was started in 1995 and was one of the first sites of its kind on the internet. wvlightning.com serves as the central 'portal' for all of the sites in the Appalachian Skies family, and is updated with news stories, feature articles, photos and educational material. The Appalachian Skies mobile ENG vehicle is lettered with wvlightning.com logos and graphics. The ministry side of wvlightning.com allows visitors to the site from all over the world to read and hear about the Gospel of Jesus Christ. This ministry, we believe, is central to all that Appalachian Skies does - in that through all of our business and storm chasing activities, that people would have a chance to hear the life-changing message of Christ.
wvlightning.com Home Page | The Message - wvlightning.com
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