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Re: General TWC Discussion
« Reply #9075 on: April 22, 2014, 10:19:38 PM »
Not surprising at all, if you're trying to get high-visibility. Marketing 101, people...  :rolleyes:
I don't mind the random backgrounds the IS/IS2 has. Its just that every time I hear "Green is Universal", I always think of NBC/Comcast being an non-environmentally friendly company. Big corporations always tend to be non-environmentally friendly.
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Re: General TWC Discussion
« Reply #9076 on: April 23, 2014, 09:38:14 PM »
Not surprising at all, if you're trying to get high-visibility. Marketing 101, people...  :rolleyes:
I don't mind the random backgrounds the IS/IS2 has. Its just that every time I hear "Green is Universal", I always think of NBC/Comcast being an non-environmentally friendly company. Big corporations always tend to be non-environmentally friendly.

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Re: General TWC Discussion
« Reply #9077 on: April 23, 2014, 09:41:01 PM »
The green logo was only used for one day this year.

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Re: General TWC Discussion
« Reply #9078 on: April 24, 2014, 03:15:24 PM »
The Weather Channel free app has been updated. I don't like how there is no menu to directly access sections.
Now you have to swipe down to other sections of the app and then swipe up to go back.

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Re: General TWC Discussion
« Reply #9079 on: April 25, 2014, 05:05:45 PM »
How come when sometimes TWC is covering severe t-storms with tornadoes (like what's happening right now on the east coast) they don't activate Storm Alert mode?  :dunno:
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Re: General TWC Discussion
« Reply #9080 on: April 26, 2014, 12:23:14 PM »
Good question. I don't get it either what determines when they turn the storm mode graphics on.
If they are on all day to cover storms you would believe they would turn the storm graphics on.


TWC is running a video today with Mike Bettes talking about the changes they are making to their storm chasing to be safer during storms.
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Re: General TWC Discussion
« Reply #9081 on: April 26, 2014, 05:59:23 PM »
How come when sometimes TWC is covering severe t-storms with tornadoes (like what's happening right now on the east coast) they don't activate Storm Alert mode?  :dunno:

One thing I find interesting is they mention they are in "storm mode" or even yesterday they said "we have gone all red", and they use the black and red graphics in the background, yet they don't change the graphics on screen to the black and red.

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Re: General TWC Discussion
« Reply #9082 on: April 27, 2014, 01:37:01 PM »
TWC is officially in Storm Alert this morning

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Re: General TWC Discussion
« Reply #9083 on: April 27, 2014, 11:44:52 PM »
This minor glitch, well I guess it's a glitch kinda annoys me. When a weather bulletin is being shown on the LDL, I noticed that it cuts off what the specific weather bulletin is and starts with the word "in". So basically it wipes in incorrectly, then a second or two later it reanimates back in correctly.

ex of the first time: "in effect from Monday evening to Wednesday evening."

ex of the second time: "A Flood Watch is in effect from Monday evening to Wednesday evening."

Again, it's minor, but it still annoys me because you would think it would have been fixed by now. It's been doing this since the rebranding last year.


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Re: General TWC Discussion
« Reply #9084 on: April 28, 2014, 04:03:02 PM »
TWC is now streaming live coverage. For some reason the lower thirds and "breaking now" graphic are not on the live stream feed. Maybe they are just broadcasting the output and not the viz with the scrolling ticker?

http://www.weather.com/video/watch-live-exclusive-severe-coverage-28845

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Re: General TWC Discussion
« Reply #9085 on: April 28, 2014, 06:21:55 PM »

The old graphic the used to be on screen when the LDL was off was on the YouTube live stream till around 7pm.


This is on the YouTube live feed during LOT8's and commercials.
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Re: General TWC Discussion
« Reply #9086 on: April 29, 2014, 07:47:06 AM »
TWC is now streaming live coverage. For some reason the lower thirds and "breaking now" graphic are not on the live stream feed. Maybe they are just broadcasting the output and not the viz with the scrolling ticker?

http://www.weather.com/video/watch-live-exclusive-severe-coverage-28845


they should just have a 24/7 livestream like WeatherNation. it would make alot of sense for people who don't have access to TWC on TV.

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Re: General TWC Discussion
« Reply #9087 on: April 30, 2014, 07:01:29 PM »
Storm Alert officially ended at 7 PM, after many graphical glitches between the red and blue graphics..

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Re: General TWC Discussion
« Reply #9088 on: April 30, 2014, 11:04:16 PM »
TWC still live at 11pm ET and using storm mode music.  Wonder why they switched out of the storm mode graphics?

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Re: General TWC Discussion
« Reply #9089 on: May 01, 2014, 12:03:08 AM »
Long-form programming has resumed as of midnight ET.
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