NBC Buys TWC!!!

[Alejandro]

Another winning recipe would be to take off All the long-form programming including Forecast Earth

[lfmusiclover]

For one thing, NBC Universal will likely have our weatherstar videos removed and our YouTube accounts terminated, since they now have TWC.

Uh oh, for real?

Vic, use your head.

[Localonthe8s]

Well I most of the videos that I uploaded are no longer in my computer so I'm worried about that.

[Mike M]

If yes, not anytime soon. The deal doesn't close until year's end, and it will take awhile after that before NBC takes TWC videos off of YouTube. So you have plenty of time to enjoy them.

[lfmusiclover]

GUYS NBC IS NOT GOING TO REMOVE OUR VIDEOS. FOR ALL INTENTS AND PURPOSES NOTHING WILL CHANGE ABOUT TWC. IT IS STILL, FOR ALL INTENTS AND PURPOSES ITS OWN ENTITY. CAN'T YOU READ?

That is all. 

[Tyler]

Gary, you don't know that for sure. NBC may very well take them down, eventually (not now, obviously).


Here's my prediction... the first sign of NBC/TWC integration will be TWC field OCMs (Jim, Mike, Jeff, etc) reporting on NBC's TODAY Show and Nightly News during weather events, and/or NBC's field OCMs reporting on TWC. This, though, it still down the road.

[Concentric Eyewall]

Uh oh, for real?

I'll repeat what I said earlier again for the benefit of the doomsayers amongst us (cough Jtaylor cough). You won't see too many changes when the smoke settles. For the most part TWC is a winning recipe, so I highly doubt NBC is going to implement any terribly drastic changes. As they say, you don't fix what ain't broken. 

 

[lfmusiclover]

Gary, you don't know that for sure. NBC may very well take them down, eventually (not now, obviously).


Here's my prediction... the first sign of NBC/TWC integration will be TWC field OCMs (Jim, Mike, Jeff, etc) reporting on NBC's TODAY Show and Nightly News during weather events, and/or NBC's field OCMs reporting on TWC. This, though, it still down the road.

That's certainly not what I would call a major change. IN fact, I would welcome that! There's a big difference between that and total obliteration of the LF and WxScan as we know it, as some here are predicting, wouldn't you say Tyler? 

[Concentric Eyewall]

Here's my prediction... the first sign of NBC/TWC integration will be TWC field OCMs (Jim, Mike, Jeff, etc) reporting on NBC's TODAY Show and Nightly News during weather events, and/or NBC's field OCMs reporting on TWC. This, though, it still down the road.

Maybe, but I've definately seen that before...particularly Jim Contore on World News Tonight on ABC.

[TheRolyPoly]

Interesting you mention Leo Laporte Steve. I used to love watching his shows on techTV/ZDTV

I loved techtv back in the days. I loved watching Leo when he was in the screen savers

[Spring Rubber]

Meh, it's become the big thing for big corporations to take down copyrighted YouTube videos; I honestly wouldn't be surprised if NBC did such a thing.

Vic, you should consider re-downloading your YouTube videos with a site such as http://www.mediaconverter.org/

[Mike M]

There's many NBC WeatherPlus videos up on YouTube, so they may or may not mind having TWC videos up there too.

[lfmusiclover]

Let's keep in mind that TWC will continue to be run as a seperate entity. 

On a different note, one thing I realized that we should probably expect is more long form programming. Seems that teaming with a big media conglomerate like NBC would be ideal for TWC to expand their long form stuff. 

[Tyler]

Maybe, but I've definately seen that before...particularly Jim Contore on World News Tonight on ABC.

Well those days are over. The management at NBC would shit themselves to find Jim appearing on a competing network once they actually "own" TWC.

Let's keep in mind that TWC will continue to be run as a seperate entity. 

Doesn't matter. NBCU will manage TWC. If they want the videos down, then they shall be brought down. Or at least to the best of their abilities.

[lfmusiclover]

Maybe, but I've definately seen that before...particularly Jim Contore on World News Tonight on ABC.

Well those days are over. The management at NBC would shit themselves to find Jim appearing on a competing network once they actually "own" TWC.

Let's keep in mind that TWC will continue to be run as a seperate entity. 

Doesn't matter. NBCU will manage TWC. If they want the videos down, then they shall be brought down. Or at least to the best of their abilities.

Mark my words, nothing will change in terms of YouTube.