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Re: Expanded Local on the 8s
« Reply #15 on: June 02, 2010, 09:11:15 AM »
Jeff Morrow was out today, and Bill Keneely was filling in. Surprisingly, he did just fine, and sounded as if he too was from Pittsburgh (knowing all the roads, bridges, tunnels, etc).

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Re: Expanded Local on the 8s
« Reply #16 on: June 02, 2010, 09:36:15 AM »
Jeff Morrow was out today, and Bill Keneely was filling in. Surprisingly, he did just fine, and sounded as if he too was from Pittsburgh (knowing all the roads, bridges, tunnels, etc).
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Re: Expanded Local on the 8s
« Reply #17 on: June 02, 2010, 11:58:21 AM »
Jeff Morrow was out today, and Bill Keneely was filling in. Surprisingly, he did just fine, and sounded as if he too was from Pittsburgh (knowing all the roads, bridges, tunnels, etc).
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Yes, I hear him mentioning a lot of attractions and roads others probably wouldn't know, including in my area. He has been with TWC since its beginning anyway so I'd imagine he'd be pretty familiar with a lot of places around the country. :yes:

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Re: Expanded Local on the 8s
« Reply #18 on: June 05, 2010, 05:31:40 AM »
I find this "trial run" odd because it's basically impossible to provide live forecasts like this to every major market. I guess the plan for the future might be to record a segment for each of the cities they want to cover. Of course, this will prevent them from using live content in these segments, but I can't really think of a better solution. It's not like they have the capacity to push out 5-10 different live feeds, right? I think they only have like three control rooms, and I can't imagine them having more than one or two key walls set up in their building, so I'm pretty sure the finished product will have to be recorded segments, right?
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Re: Expanded Local on the 8s
« Reply #19 on: June 05, 2010, 10:16:13 PM »
I find this "trial run" odd because it's basically impossible to provide live forecasts like this to every major market. I guess the plan for the future might be to record a segment for each of the cities they want to cover. Of course, this will prevent them from using live content in these segments, but I can't really think of a better solution. It's not like they have the capacity to push out 5-10 different live feeds, right? I think they only have like three control rooms, and I can't imagine them having more than one or two key walls set up in their building, so I'm pretty sure the finished product will have to be recorded segments, right?
Thats a good point! Are these actually live? :unsure:

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Re: Expanded Local on the 8s
« Reply #20 on: June 05, 2010, 11:26:21 PM »

Thats a good point! Are these actually live? :unsure:

Jeff's segments? Yes. He does 4 live forecasts (7:10, 7:40, 8:10, 8:40), and 4 live LF intros (7:08,7:38, 8:08, 8:38).

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Re: Expanded Local on the 8s
« Reply #21 on: June 06, 2010, 01:59:30 PM »
I wonder if this got tested at other FiOS headends. I would imagine that if Tyler saw it that there could have been at least one other STAR in another market that saw it.
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Re: Expanded Local on the 8s
« Reply #22 on: June 06, 2010, 08:24:40 PM »
This was tested on all STARs in the Pittsburgh DMA, and no where else.

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Re: Expanded Local on the 8s
« Reply #23 on: July 04, 2010, 03:44:19 AM »
Extended Local on the 8s Promo
« Last Edit: July 04, 2010, 03:47:17 AM by Martin »

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Re: Expanded Local on the 8s
« Reply #24 on: July 04, 2010, 12:16:32 PM »
Extended Local on the 8s Promo
How did you get that? :P That was the second promo they did...the first one had Zelienople spelled wrong.

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Re: Expanded Local on the 8s
« Reply #25 on: July 08, 2010, 10:08:59 AM »
Extended Local on the 8s Promo
How did you get that? :P That was the second promo they did...the first one had Zelienople spelled wrong.
IDK, but that's still a nice find. Thanks for the upload, Martin. :biggrin:
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Re: Expanded Local on the 8s
« Reply #26 on: July 09, 2010, 03:04:03 AM »
Extended Local on the 8s Promo
How did you get that? :P That was the second promo they did...the first one had Zelienople spelled wrong.
Haha they spelled it wrong? Nice :P