Yesterday, CanWest MediaWorks announced a partnership with Madison, Wisconsin-based MyWeather that will soon deliver this country’s first personalized online local weather service – ‘Forecast 4 Me.’ Beginning with Ontario, Global Television will provide customized forecasts for up to four local zones per individual. These will be targeted by postal code and delivered directly to subscribers via e-mail, as well as available online.

Forecast 4 Me subscribers will receive the same services as MyWeather currently provides to nearly two million people elsewhere: personalized e-mail messages from their local Global News meteorologist twice daily; weather trivia; live links to a ‘Personal Forecast Page’ featuring seven-day local, national and world weather; satellite and radar imaging; recreation, air-quality and pollen updates; and hour-by-hour weather information for up to four locations (e.g. home, cottage, loved ones).

Ontario Tourism and CanWest are sponsoring the first few weeks of Forecast 4 Me’s debut and running a contest with Ontario getaways as prizes. But advertising and sponsorship opps are on offer for other marketers thereafter, and can be parlayed across any or all of CanWest’s platform.

Free subscriptions may be arranged at www.globaltvontario.com, and a preview of what’s headed our way may be viewed at www.MyWeather.net.