High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! IntelliStar is the fifth generation successor to the WeatherStar systems used by the American cable TV and satellite TV channel The Weather Channel (TWC), for inserting local forecasts and current weather information (such as the "Local on the 8s" portion of their program schedule) into TWC`s programming. Like the WeatherStar, it is installed as well at the cable TV company`s headend.