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Programming and Graphics / Re: New schedule to come June 2nd?

« on: August 06, 2008, 05:02:37 PM »

I'm ready to send another Customer Service form saying how much better the three hours of Weather Center was and that I certainly hope this is a temporary change. I'm also going to mention how old and stale all this long-form programming is. I don't know if anyone else wants to also do so.

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Programming and Graphics / Re: New schedule to come June 2nd?

« on: August 06, 2008, 07:51:56 AM »

Perhaps Nick and Vivian are heading into final rehearsals for HD? They ran the long-form block the last time they had to rehearse.

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General Discussion / So, I watched Harold and Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay tonight...

« on: August 06, 2008, 04:27:22 AM »

Anyone want to guess what the final two lines of the movie are? (unless of course you know them already)

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OCMs & Personalities / Re: Jen Carfagno - Your new First Outlook co-anchor

« on: August 06, 2008, 04:25:31 AM »

Jen has a string hanging from her skirt this morning. HD really DOES show everything!

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Everything Else TWC / Re: The Weather Channel | HD Discussion

« on: August 05, 2008, 03:44:58 PM »

I should've said full-time, which is what I meant. I'm not sure whether or not to consider Mark full-time.

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Everything Else TWC / Re: The Weather Channel | HD Discussion

« on: August 05, 2008, 03:33:04 PM »

Figures that I was sleeping and didn't record; I'm recording now, though.

With Mike doing a show in HD, I guess that makes Kristina the last OCM to not to a show in HD. After all, she did say, "I dread that day."

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OCMs & Personalities / Re: Bill Keneely deployed to cover Edouard

« on: August 05, 2008, 03:26:53 PM »

I'm saying it's surprising because it seemed that he was done with field duty for good, especially with tropical systems.

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Local Forecast / Re: Trammell Sightings

« on: August 05, 2008, 08:20:58 AM »

I'm recording this hour on both HD and SD, so I don't know know, but I'll know later.

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Local Forecast / Re: Trammell Sightings

« on: August 05, 2008, 08:14:42 AM »

I don't know if it was necessary, but they actually bailed out of the HD LF and switched the HD feed over to the emergency feed during that LF. The HD LF started without music and then switched to the emergency feed a few seconds in.

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OCMs & Personalities / Bill Keneely deployed to cover Edouard

« on: August 05, 2008, 07:18:37 AM »

In a surprise move, TWC has deployed Bill Keneely as a field OCM to cover the landfall; he just joined them on the phone as he's en route to where they expect to be the exact landfall point.

I know Bill reported on a Nor'easter up in his neck of the woods recently, but I never expected to see him out in a tropical system again.

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Everything Else TWC / Re: General TWC Discussion

« on: August 05, 2008, 07:16:27 AM »

Tell me Dr. Lyons didn't just say that South Padre Island is in the Galveston area. (Although I'm sure he simply slipped if that's the case; he obviously knows better.)

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Everything Else TWC / Re: The Weather Channel | HD Discussion

« on: August 04, 2008, 10:46:12 PM »

Heck, they're still even covering it right now with phone interviews to city officials and the aid of intrepid reporter Jorma Duran.

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Everything Else TWC / Re: The Weather Channel | HD Discussion

« on: August 04, 2008, 10:41:41 PM »

TWC actually did a fine job covering the Chicago tornado threat tonight; we had three tornado warnings going at once, and they were often on top of it more than the local stations, who kept being forced to stop their weather updates in lieu of network programming.

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Everything Else TWC / Re: Blooper Thread

« on: August 04, 2008, 10:39:50 PM »

At 11:40 AM ET, they started to play the Day Planner Travel opener, then it cut out after a second to black, then a picture of the US Capitol flashed on screen, then they cut to Kevin at the wall.

I heard that from the couch; I was falling asleep. I couldn't stay awake for all of the DP HD premiere the way I planned.

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Everything Else TWC / Re: Commercials and Sponsorship ads from 2000?

« on: August 04, 2008, 10:38:14 PM »

I think September 10, 2001. I always remember thinking how weird it was making my first TWC recording the day before 9-11.

Was that when you discovered TWC?

Nah, I had been watching since ~1995, but I never thought to record until that day.