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Programming and Graphics / Re: Wake Up With Al

« on: November 09, 2012, 06:51:06 PM »

I believe it's part of the new schedule coming Monday.

It was like this during 9AM ET YWT and probably during WUWA:

:00-:08 - Live
:08-:10 - Locals on the 8s
:10-:14 - Commercials
:14-:18 - Live
:18-:20 - Local on the 8s
:20-:24 - Commercials
:24-:28 - Live
:28 -30 - Local on the 8s.

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Everything Else TWC / Re: The Weather Channel Schedules Discussion Thread

« on: November 05, 2012, 01:02:17 AM »

Mark Elliot did 1AM ET WCL. This is the first time he anchored a program.

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Everything Else TWC / Re: Blooper Thread

« on: November 02, 2012, 01:36:11 AM »

During WCL 1AM ET, the HD National LDL is stuck at Albuquerque.

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Everything Else TWC / Re: General TWC Discussion

« on: November 02, 2012, 01:20:22 AM »

Kelly Cass said that TWC will be broadcasting the Hurricane Sandy Concert on Friday, 8PM/11PM ET. Other NBC Universal Networks are also broadcasting it too.

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Everything Else TWC / Re: The Weather Channel Schedules Discussion Thread

« on: October 31, 2012, 06:23:47 PM »

10/31/12 Sandy Coverage:

5AM-7AM (WUWA): Al and Stephanie
7AM-10AM (YWT): Stephanie, Mike and Maria
10AM-11AM (WUWA, Live): Mike and Maria
3PM-7PM (WCL): Jen and Todd
7PM-11PM (WCL): Chris and Crystal
11PM-2AM (WCL): Paul and Kelly

LDL is back to blue at 7PM ET.

After being on air 24 hours a day since Friday, TWC coverage ended at 2AM ET.

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Everything Else TWC / Re: General TWC Discussion

« on: October 31, 2012, 12:47:25 AM »

You clearly don't know how the television industry works, do you?

You clearly don't know how weather information is properly disseminated, do you? In case anyone has forgotten what this means, this is a Weather Channel fansite. TWC has a mission and a purpose. Being just another television channel or a cash cow is not one of them. If it was we wouldn't be here today, and TWC wouldn't have been created in 1982. Your adopting of the mentality of "if you can't beat them, join them", along with a few others here, leaves me disappointed in the people at TWC Today. I choose a different course, of standing up and being counted in favor of the Weather Channel I have known and loved since early childhood. My stubbornness in and of itself will change nothing, but it's not as if your pessimism is helping to improve the Weather Channel - if anything it gives them more license to destroy it. Should they have commercials? Probably. Do they need commercials? Yes (as opposed to, say, Turner Classic Movies). Should commercials take precedence over local forecasts and weather coverage? Absolutely not, and this is where my point lies. There are other schedules they can adopt that have both LF's and commercials, if they need extra coverage time. They've done it many times before, notably during Storm Alert mode. Shaving off a few ads wouldn't hurt them given the extra ratings. Broadcast networks that are totally dependent on commercials manage to air 90 minute events uninterrupted and still come out with a quarterly profit, and TWC doesn't even need to go as far as shunning all commercials. This goes back to my original point about them being desperate, greedy, or both. If they put their mission first, as they did years ago, you would have seen local forecasts during that timeframe, just as you saw local forecasts during past mega-storms.

I only watched a little bit of TWC coverage this morning, but Stephanie's "inside jokes" with Mike Bettes were, in my mind, completely uncalled for.   I understand she's probably running on little to no sleep, but she was acting like a teenager.  Before the top of the hour (9 AM), she was supposed to give more information on the storm and just said something (I don't even remember what) that both Mike and Maria gave stunned reactions to.  Heck, TWC even had to cut her off.

I like Stephanie, but not when she does things like this.

I didn't see any of that, but from what I hear her conduct was uncalled for. OCM's should have more personality than they do at this time, but that's the wrong kind of personality. They would have been better off to highlight some of the unusual upper-level winds and temperature differential associated with Sandy, or perhaps the cold snaps occurring all over the Northern Hemisphere. Given how entrenched those two jokers are, I can only hope that the executives will have an epiphany, fire Abrams, and send Al Roker back to NBC where he belongs.

I agree that NBC needs to get rid of Abrams and Roker. They are both not professionals. There both a joke.

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Everything Else TWC / Re: The Weather Channel Schedules Discussion Thread

« on: October 30, 2012, 06:21:30 PM »

10/30/12 Sandy Coverage

5AM-7AM (WUWA): Al and Stephanie
7AM-11AM (YWT): Stephanie, Mike and Maria
11AM-3PM (DP): Heather and Vivian
3PM-7PM (WCL): Chris (solo)
7PM-11PM (WCL): Crystal and Paul
11PM-3AM (WCL): Kelly and Kim

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Everything Else TWC / Re: The Weather Channel Schedules Discussion Thread

« on: October 29, 2012, 06:27:44 PM »

10/29/12 Hurricane Sandy Coverage

7AM-10AM (YWT): Stephanie, Mike and Maria
10AM-11AM (WUWA/Live): Stephanie, Al and Jim
3PM-7PM (WCL): Vivian and Todd
7PM-11PM (WCL): Chris and Crystal
11PM-3AM (WCL): Paul, Kelly and Kim

Reporters:
Battery Park, NY - Jim Cantore
Connecticut - Reynolds Wolf
Rhode Island - Eric Fisher
New Jersey - Mike Seidel
North Carolina - Julie Martin

TWC also had reports from WNBC, CNBC, NBC News and NECN-TV

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Everything Else TWC / Re: General TWC Discussion

« on: October 29, 2012, 06:25:12 PM »

Does this image look familiar to anyone? It's from my local NBC affiliate's webpage....



Also, LFs are done at this point. They're going to commercial breaks on the 8s and returning two minutes later.

It looks similar to TWC's 2010 Hurricane Season Graphics.

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Everything Else TWC / Re: The Weather Channel Schedules Discussion Thread

« on: October 28, 2012, 12:00:33 PM »

10/28/12 Hurricane Sandy Coverage:

11AM-3PM (WN): Vivian and Heather
3PM-7PM (WCL): Todd (solo)
7PM-11PM (WCL): Kelly and Ryan Goswick
11PM-12AM (WCL): Paul and Kelly
12AM-3AM (WCL): Paul, Danielle and Kim

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Everything Else TWC / Re: The Weather Channel Schedules Discussion Thread

« on: October 27, 2012, 01:00:41 PM »

Saturday 10/27/12 Sandy Coverage:

11AM-3PM (WN): Heather and Vivian
3PM-7PM (WCL): Warren Madden (solo)
7PM-11PM (WCL): Crystal and Kelly
11PM-3AM (WCL): Paul and Kim

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OCMs & Personalities / Re: 2012 Layoffs

« on: October 26, 2012, 08:51:02 PM »

I wonder what those programming changes are?

Probably because TWC is relaunching and revamping it's morning programs.

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Programming and Graphics / Re: Morning & Dayside revamp

« on: October 26, 2012, 08:38:41 PM »

My Comcast guide shows the new morning schedule starting November 5. But it has Morning Rush from 7AM-10AM ET.

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Everything Else TWC / Re: The Weather Channel Schedules Discussion Thread

« on: October 26, 2012, 08:05:48 PM »

10/26/12 Hurricane Sandy Coverage

7PM-11PM (WCL): Reynolds, Crystal, Norcross in GFC, Jim in Florida
11PM-3AM (WCL): Kelly and Kim

So I guess 24 hour coverage has began

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OCMs & Personalities / Re: 2012 Layoffs

« on: October 26, 2012, 07:46:01 PM »

Yes, the rumors are true.

From Heather Tesch's facebook:

"By the way, for all of my amazing and supportive fans, this will be my final few days at The Weather Channel as TWC makes some programming changes. It has been a fabulous ride for 14 years. I appreciate your loyalty so much!!"

So I guess her contract ends on the last day of October as rumored.