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Programming and Graphics / Re: Official Hanna Hype Thread

« on: September 04, 2008, 11:05:37 PM »

I wonder if Adam will be the "B" in A&B tomorrow or if they'll just have Steph do it from the studio alone.

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OCMs & Personalities / Re: "Yeah, let's do that."

« on: September 04, 2008, 11:03:49 PM »

Just now...

Rich: Now here's Sharon with a look at what's going on with Hannah.

Sharon: Yeah, let's have a look

A few seconds later, Sharon did it to herself...

Sharon: So we see Hannah moving toward North Carolina. (pause) So let's talk about that.

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Programming and Graphics / Re: Official Hanna Hype Thread

« on: September 04, 2008, 11:01:59 PM »

Now for EEWC, they've omitted the EE opener in lieu of a Hanna opener. The hype! The HYPE!

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Programming and Graphics / Re: Official Hanna Hype Thread

« on: September 04, 2008, 10:32:41 PM »

Yeah, that sounds like a plan!

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Programming and Graphics / Re: Official Hanna Hype Thread

« on: September 04, 2008, 09:31:19 PM »

...and now a recorded teaser and opener at the bottom of the hour? How weird...

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Programming and Graphics / Re: Official Hanna Hype Thread

« on: September 04, 2008, 09:07:19 PM »

Live teaser/opener on EE tonight...

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Everything Else TWC / Re: What the heck??

« on: September 04, 2008, 09:02:55 PM »

No, I'll bet Vic sent a pin headed message about having the "narration removed" from the LOT8s segment and some (I'll be it pin head as well) TWC rep thought it meant closed captioning...

They do sometimes accidentally send things for no reason; for example I once got a stock message from Chris totally at random (I hadn't sent him anything for a while before that) about the airing of long-form programming during severe weather coverage and how they'll try to do dual feed break-ins more often.

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Programming and Graphics / Re: Official Hanna Hype Thread

« on: September 04, 2008, 08:58:24 PM »

This is almost sick, TWC is deploying Mike Bettes to New York City tomorrow to prepare for the vague possibility for Hannah to make landfall there as a WEAK TROPICAL STORM! OMG WE'RE ALL GONNA DIE!!!

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Programming and Graphics / Re: Watching Hanna and Ike

« on: September 04, 2008, 01:59:29 PM »

So, Bill and Eboni are already doing an extra hour of DP, with Viv and Nick not starting until the top of the hour. What kind of schedule is this, and what's the point? Are we going to see a really weird schedule come tonight or something?

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General Weather Chat / Re: Hurricane Central 2008

« on: September 04, 2008, 12:26:49 AM »

...and in another three hours, Ike becomes a category 4 storm...

000
WTNT34 KNHC 040253
TCPAT4
BULLETIN
HURRICANE IKE ADVISORY NUMBER  12
NWS TPC/NATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER MIAMI FL   AL092008
1100 PM AST WED SEP 03 2008

...IKE BECOMES AN EXTREMELY DANGEROUS CATEGORY FOUR HURRICANE...

AT 1100 PM AST...0300Z...THE CENTER OF HURRICANE IKE WAS LOCATED
NEAR LATITUDE 22.1 NORTH...LONGITUDE 54.1 WEST OR ABOUT 610 MILES...
980 KM...NORTHEAST OF THE LEEWARD ISLANDS.

IKE IS MOVING TOWARD THE WEST-NORTHWEST NEAR 17 MPH...28 KM/HR...AND
THIS GENERAL MOTION IS EXPECTED TO CONTINUE THROUGH EARLY
THURSDAY...FOLLOWED BY A TURN TO THE WEST ON THURSDAY NIGHT AND
FRIDAY...TAKING IKE OVER THE OPEN WATERS OF THE WEST-CENTRAL
ATLANTIC DURING THE NEXT COUPLE OF DAYS.  IT IS TOO EARLY TO
DETERMINE WHAT IF ANY LAND AREAS MIGHT EVENTUALLY BE AFFECTED BY
IKE.

MAXIMUM SUSTAINED WINDS HAVE INCREASED TO NEAR NEAR 135 MPH...215
KM/HR...WITH HIGHER GUSTS.  IKE IS AN EXTREMELY DANGEROUS CATEGORY
FOUR HURRICANE ON THE SAFFIR-SIMPSON HURRICANE SCALE.  SOME
FLUCTUATIONS IN INTENSITY ARE EXPECTED DURING THE NEXT DAY OR
TWO.

HURRICANE FORCE WINDS EXTEND OUTWARD UP TO 35 MILES...55 KM...FROM
THE CENTER...AND TROPICAL STORM FORCE WINDS EXTEND OUTWARD UP TO 160
MILES...260 KM.

ESTIMATED MINIMUM CENTRAL PRESSURE IS 948 MB...27.99 INCHES.

REPEATING THE 1100 PM AST POSITION...22.1 N...54.1 W.  MOVEMENT
TOWARD...WEST-NORTHWEST NEAR 17 MPH.  MAXIMUM SUSTAINED WINDS...135
MPH.  MINIMUM CENTRAL PRESSURE...948 MB.

THE NEXT ADVISORY WILL BE ISSUED BY THE NATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER AT
500 AM AST.

$$
FORECASTER BROWN

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Everything Else TWC / Re: General TWC Discussion

« on: September 03, 2008, 11:57:10 PM »

They used that music on and off throughout Storm Alert even though it's not the main Storm Alert theme. I don't really know anything else about it.

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Everything Else TWC / Re: General TWC Discussion

« on: September 03, 2008, 10:49:48 PM »

Well, a few lighting changes are what I'm referring to here, but YWT suffered greatly after Dean last year when the whole show pretty much lost its structure until the HD relaunch. During that time period, the show stopped using pretty much all of its openers, stopped doing the region-by-region look at :00 and :30, and dropped the Travel segment at :10 in favor of fluff. (Travel Destinations)

Basically what happened is that the structure was temporarily taken away for Dean coverage, but they decided to never restore structure after Dean went away.

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Everything Else TWC / Re: Blooper Thread

« on: September 03, 2008, 10:46:47 PM »

Ugh...this is reminding me of when Rich Johnson made pretty much the same mistake fairly recently. Where do they get this information from? Geeze...

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Everything Else TWC / Re: General TWC Discussion

« on: September 03, 2008, 09:04:08 PM »

They're using the morning horizontal stripes on the walls again for EE. What happened to the normal dark blue ones?

(I seriously hope they're not breaking structure already after Gustav the same way YWT suddenly lost its production structure after Dean last year.)

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Everything Else TWC / Re: General TWC Discussion

« on: September 03, 2008, 08:55:05 PM »

I think they used it to put the name labels on there; plus it looks kinda neat, I suppose.