VIDALIA — CableOne is pursuing ways to get Louisiana weather reports to Vidalia viewers who have lost several local TV stations.

General Manager Bobby McCool attended Tuesday night’s Vidalia Board of Aldermen meeting to address concerns about recent cable changes.

Stations from Baton Rouge and Alexandria, La., were discontinued on Jan. 1, due to a nationwide switch from analog TV signals to digital ones.

McCool said two of the three stations cut simply don’t produce signals long enough to reach Vidalia. The third station would require CableOne to pay “an enormous price,” he said.

Vidalia residents can still view Mississippi networks, but have expressed concern that they won’t get Louisiana news about LSU, state politics and the weather.

CableOne has been in contact with the Weather Channel in an effort to fix one of those problems, McCool said.

“We are in the process of getting local on the eights to include Vidalia weather,” he said. “We will be purchasing equipment to get Vidalia weather on there.”

The Weather Channel would broadcast Vidalia temperatures and predictions every 10 minutes, he said.

CableOne will also be adding a few channels and renumbering some stations to fill in the gaps of those lost, McCool said.

McCool also took questions from the audience and expressed repeatedly that CableOne was not happy that stations were cut.

“This has really caused a lot of hardship on a lot of cable companies,” he said. “We know the public has been really upset over the changes. These changes were not favorable for us. It was something we had to do.”

In other business, the board of aldermen voted to rezone a section of land on the corner of Concordia Avenue and Riverside Drive — across from Vidalia Upper Elementary — from residential to commercial.