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Re: General TWC Discussion
« Reply #8700 on: May 02, 2013, 11:50:27 PM »
Maybe I'm the dumbass here, but I really don't get the point of the whole tornado room thing. I guess I have to take half credit for not knowing because I haven't been trying hard to know what the point of it is.

Today was the first time I actually paid attention to it for more than 2 seconds. I give em credit for wanting to make their Tornado Week entertaining and informative at the same time, but it seems like they're going at it the wrong way. It looks really cheesy and goofy. I can say with 100% certainty TWC couldn't pay me enough money in my contract to do some of the silly things they're doing right now.


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Re: General TWC Discussion
« Reply #8701 on: May 03, 2013, 11:49:54 AM »
During Day Planner the North East graphic made a rare appearance  :thumbsup:

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Re: General TWC Discussion
« Reply #8702 on: May 03, 2013, 01:16:00 PM »
During Day Planner the North East graphic made a rare appearance  :thumbsup:
Yeah, I noticed they used one of the regional openers about a week or 2 ago as well.

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Re: General TWC Discussion
« Reply #8703 on: May 03, 2013, 09:40:44 PM »
During Day Planner the North East graphic made a rare appearance  :thumbsup:
Did it use the sound effect too?

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Re: General TWC Discussion
« Reply #8704 on: May 03, 2013, 09:42:37 PM »
During Day Planner the North East graphic made a rare appearance  :thumbsup:
Did it use the sound effect too?

Yes it did, i was shocked to hear it when the graphic came on :happy:

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Re: General TWC Discussion
« Reply #8705 on: May 03, 2013, 10:39:17 PM »
The giant lower third promoting the #TorandoWeek has tag is gone. :)

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Re: General TWC Discussion
« Reply #8706 on: May 03, 2013, 10:48:45 PM »
The giant lower third promoting the #TorandoWeek has tag is gone. :)

This week should have been #WinterStormWeek. :P

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Re: General TWC Discussion
« Reply #8707 on: May 03, 2013, 10:50:27 PM »
During Day Planner the North East graphic made a rare appearance  :thumbsup:

That's RARE!

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Re: General TWC Discussion
« Reply #8708 on: May 03, 2013, 10:56:08 PM »
Is the use of the "North East" Day Planner animation rare or the use of the animated intros in general?
They also used the South and West animated intro graphics going into those forecast segments.

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Re: General TWC Discussion
« Reply #8709 on: May 03, 2013, 11:02:59 PM »
Yes, those animated regional transitions are very rarely used these days. They were part of the original DP package from 2008.

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Re: General TWC Discussion
« Reply #8710 on: May 04, 2013, 04:36:29 AM »
LOL!  That SNL skit was hilarious!
It keep getting funnier....and then I lost it when they did the time and temperature.  :rofl: :rofl2:
That was so unexpected!

Yeah, I am not sure they knew what happened to Jeanetta.  If they did, I am not sure they would have done that with the character.  It was funny, though.

.....right up there with Bill Cosby saying that all the new mothers on TWC were due to John Hope LOL.

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Re: General TWC Discussion
« Reply #8711 on: May 04, 2013, 07:05:21 PM »
Warren Madden is on tonight with Kim. He might be the longest part time OCM currently at TWC.

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Re: General TWC Discussion
« Reply #8712 on: May 04, 2013, 08:41:29 PM »
LOL!  That SNL skit was hilarious!
It keep getting funnier....and then I lost it when they did the time and temperature.  :rofl: :rofl2:
That was so unexpected!

Yeah, I am not sure they knew what happened to Jeanetta.  If they did, I am not sure they would have done that with the character.  It was funny, though.

.....right up there with Bill Cosby saying that all the new mothers on TWC were due to John Hope LOL.
The skit was funny except for the reference SNL used to Jeanetta Jones who suffered a horrific car accident in 2006 which ended her career at TWC.  SNL could have selected another character like "Hether" Tesh to spoof another former OCM at TWC; Heather Tesch.

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Re: General TWC Discussion
« Reply #8713 on: May 05, 2013, 01:31:58 PM »
Yes, those animated regional transitions are very rarely used these days. They were part of the original DP package from 2008.



The regional intros are being used for weekend now.


They are also using the Weekend Now transition. Has that always been used or did they bring it back this weekend?

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Re: General TWC Discussion
« Reply #8714 on: May 05, 2013, 02:35:47 PM »
Weekend Now has its own set of regional transitions; they shouldn't be using Day Planner's.

Although I don't watch WN often, I have to assume the WN transitions are used quite frequently. I know DP uses its transitions quite often.