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Re: General TWC Discussion
« Reply #1470 on: August 29, 2008, 06:23:18 PM »
Tonight BOTH Stephanie Abrams and Mike Bettes have stepped in on PM Edition.
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Re: General TWC Discussion
« Reply #1471 on: August 29, 2008, 06:43:00 PM »
Turn on NBC guys! Jim's reporting on Gustav! 

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Re: General TWC Discussion
« Reply #1472 on: August 29, 2008, 09:10:54 PM »
They've started showing Labor Day openers. And, yes, it's the same opener as they used last year.
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Re: General TWC Discussion
« Reply #1473 on: August 29, 2008, 11:06:19 PM »
EDIT:  "For those who don't regularly watch The Weather Channel, when you see Jim Cantore in your town, you pack up the station wagon and run like hell."

That is what I would do... or maybe something else...

Say, how is TWC covering Gustav? I am not watching them, but I have a feeling they have the radar insets as I speak. It does look like Gustav will make landfall as a major hurricane. I wonder how TWC will conduct their coverage then.

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Re: General TWC Discussion
« Reply #1474 on: August 29, 2008, 11:09:17 PM »
They actually don't have the satellite inset up yet. Now that I think about it, that's pretty surprising.

I'm sure they'll be in total freak-out mode soon enough, though.
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Re: General TWC Discussion
« Reply #1475 on: August 30, 2008, 12:06:51 PM »
When does TWC normally go into Storm Alert? About 24 hours before potential landfall, right?

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Re: General TWC Discussion
« Reply #1476 on: August 30, 2008, 12:07:57 PM »
When does TWC normally go into Storm Alert? About 24 hours before potential landfall, right?
Yes. Usually when there's a  hurricane Cat 3 or higher about to make landfall.

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Re: General TWC Discussion
« Reply #1477 on: August 30, 2008, 01:17:11 PM »
Usually it's when the storm is 36-48 hours away from landfall from what I can recall.
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Re: General TWC Discussion
« Reply #1478 on: August 30, 2008, 01:29:56 PM »
Usually it's when the storm is 36-48 hours away from landfall from what I can recall.
So possibly late night tonight? Either way sounds like they'd go into it sometime tomorrow by that citeria

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Re: General TWC Discussion
« Reply #1479 on: August 30, 2008, 01:59:50 PM »
So there's a Category 4 hurricane in the Carribean and TWC is still showing long-form programming... :huh:

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Re: General TWC Discussion
« Reply #1480 on: August 30, 2008, 02:02:45 PM »
Tonight BOTH Stephanie Abrams and Mike Bettes have stepped in on PM Edition.
Were they still on A&B?

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Re: General TWC Discussion
« Reply #1481 on: August 30, 2008, 02:05:03 PM »
Wow, they're actually airing the FFN/ICHT block today...  :blink: They had the inset satellite up for a few minutes, but then took it down shortly after the satellite picture froze (thanks VizWeather).

Tonight BOTH Stephanie Abrams and Mike Bettes have stepped in on PM Edition.
Were they still on A&B?
Yes.
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Re: General TWC Discussion
« Reply #1482 on: August 30, 2008, 02:10:17 PM »
They never seem to pre-empt the 2PM hour of long-form. I'm sure the 5PM, 7PM, and 9PM hours will be pre-empted though. They'll likely used the same format they used for Fay.
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Re: General TWC Discussion
« Reply #1483 on: August 30, 2008, 02:11:38 PM »
Could they be using this hour break to prepare for a full-out Storm Alert at 3 PM ET?
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Re: General TWC Discussion
« Reply #1484 on: August 30, 2008, 02:11:47 PM »
I don't think TWC was ready to go into preemptions yet; I'm thinking they didn't plan on Gustav becoming a major hurricane and didn't call in the needed OCMs to get through the night. Hey, my mom is sitting here absolutely captivated by ICHT compared to the studio programming. She's obviously in the "target demographic." >_<
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