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General Discussion / Re: The Pot Belly Stove
« on: October 30, 2015, 09:58:03 PM »
I can't believe this is happening. This is so sad. Rest in peace, Martin. We're all gonna miss you so much. 
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Everything Else TWC / Re: General TWC Discussion
« on: November 12, 2014, 01:18:20 AM »
Weather only happens 5 AM to 8 PM weekdays and 5 AM to Noon weekends.
The Weather Channel: The weather happens when we say it does!
The Weather Channel: The weather happens when we say it does!
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Everything Else TWC / Re: Weather Channel for Sale
« on: September 15, 2014, 05:26:43 PM »Well this could be interesting. The article says that the TV network could be sold separately from the weather data side of the business. I wonder what this means.
Yeah, I don't even understand how this would be practical for the operations of the cable channel. Could this possibly mean that the cable channel would be turned into strictly an entertainment channel while all of the actual meteorological operations only continue on Mobile and Web?
Or if the cable channel does continue to do actual live weather, would they have to reach a contract with the new owner of the meteorological operations to use their data? How bizarre...
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OCMs & Personalities / Dr. Karen Kosiba - Severe Weather Expert
« on: April 30, 2014, 04:30:00 PM »
I can't find any articles or anything about her joining TWC, but I just caught a segment with her at the Expert Desk at :20 past this hour, and Twitter indicates that she was on yesterday, as well.
Googling her name turns up a bunch of results about her being a field researcher involved in chasing tornadoes. Does anybody know if this is just a guest appearance on TWC, or has she given up doing field research in favor of having a permanent role at TWC's Expert Desk?
Googling her name turns up a bunch of results about her being a field researcher involved in chasing tornadoes. Does anybody know if this is just a guest appearance on TWC, or has she given up doing field research in favor of having a permanent role at TWC's Expert Desk?
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Programming and Graphics / Re: New Graphics coming to TWC
« on: April 27, 2014, 07:28:49 AM »
Is this brand new as of today?
EDIT: Looks like they used it back during winter weather coverage. I really have no idea what happens at TWC anymore.
EDIT: Looks like they used it back during winter weather coverage. I really have no idea what happens at TWC anymore.
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OCMs & Personalities / Re: Dave Schwartz Returns
« on: April 21, 2014, 02:06:09 PM »
They're really hyping Dave a lot more than I expected. Hopefully they actually have enough weather segments to keep Dave useful.
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OCMs & Personalities / Re: Dave Schwartz Returns
« on: April 09, 2014, 05:56:20 AM »I am honestly shocked that TWC allowed Dave to return after how things progressed just before they let him go. The whole situation seemed irrecoverable to me, but I guess something has drastically changed.
I'm still really curious if TWC bought out Network Weather for a (relatively in TWC's eyes) small amount of money just to silence the competition.
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OCMs & Personalities / Re: Dave Schwartz Returns
« on: April 02, 2014, 04:09:30 PM »
Has Dave been on the air yet?
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OCMs & Personalities / Re: Dave Schwartz Returns
« on: March 15, 2014, 07:18:41 PM »
Does anybody think that TWC may have bought out Network Weather and is keeping Dave on board as one of those typical buyout deals where the purchasing company keeps valuable talent from the company they bought? I'm sure it wouldn't have cost much to purchase Network Weather and shut it down; TWC might have made a move like that just as a precaution to silence the competition.
I'm not saying this is what actually happened, but it seems plausible.
I'm not saying this is what actually happened, but it seems plausible.
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OCMs & Personalities / Re: New OCM Kait Parker
« on: February 16, 2014, 03:26:34 PM »
Can we have a show with Kait and Carl Parker?
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OCMs & Personalities / Re: New to TWC
« on: December 04, 2013, 01:45:18 AM »
Blah, more "big names" to add to their lineup just to broaden their advertising and casual attention.
Could someone also change the topic title to make it more descriptive? Someone had to tell me about this story off-site. I never would have thought to check this topic.
Could someone also change the topic title to make it more descriptive? Someone had to tell me about this story off-site. I never would have thought to check this topic.
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Programming and Graphics / Re: New Graphics coming to TWC
« on: November 13, 2013, 10:16:14 PM »
HD viewers see absolutely nothing; just the long-form. SD viewers see a blank LDL.
They should definitely start putting the weather data on screen again for SD viewers since there's already an LDL there. Maybe DirecTV or Dish could trade in their current Intellistars (since they aren't used for anything anymore) for Intellistar 2s so that they can display the small LDL containing national data over long form without creating an obstruction for cable viewers.
This wouldn't help cable viewers without an IS2, but TWC really needs to start getting more IS2s deployed to cable providers. SD TV is dying; we're in the HD era now. There's no reason that HD viewers should be getting screwed out of local forecasts. It's 2013. There shouldn't be a such thing as a cable carrier having TWC HD but no Intellistar 2. TWC should've made having an IS2 compulsory for carrying TWC HD just like having some kind of SD Star is compulsory for carrying TWC SD.
They should definitely start putting the weather data on screen again for SD viewers since there's already an LDL there. Maybe DirecTV or Dish could trade in their current Intellistars (since they aren't used for anything anymore) for Intellistar 2s so that they can display the small LDL containing national data over long form without creating an obstruction for cable viewers.
This wouldn't help cable viewers without an IS2, but TWC really needs to start getting more IS2s deployed to cable providers. SD TV is dying; we're in the HD era now. There's no reason that HD viewers should be getting screwed out of local forecasts. It's 2013. There shouldn't be a such thing as a cable carrier having TWC HD but no Intellistar 2. TWC should've made having an IS2 compulsory for carrying TWC HD just like having some kind of SD Star is compulsory for carrying TWC SD.
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Programming and Graphics / Re: New Graphics coming to TWC
« on: November 12, 2013, 11:38:24 PM »
Still tonight, Satellite viewers are not getting any Weather All The Time. The SD feed still has that ugly blank LDL while the HD feed simply has nothing.
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Programming and Graphics / Re: New Graphics coming to TWC
« on: November 12, 2013, 02:38:34 PM »
During long form, SD feed on satellite is a blank LDL. Hopefully this is just a bug, and hopefully we'll actually get Weather All The Time.
What are people with an IS2 seeing since there's no squeezeback happening on the HD feed? Is Weather All The Time just running over the bottom of the screen and blocking part of the image?
What are people with an IS2 seeing since there's no squeezeback happening on the HD feed? Is Weather All The Time just running over the bottom of the screen and blocking part of the image?
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Programming and Graphics / Re: New Graphics coming to TWC
« on: November 11, 2013, 07:00:36 PM »
So this is it. The hour of studio programming before the new look launches.