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Programming and Graphics / Re: What is your favorite new package?

« on: June 09, 2008, 05:09:31 PM »

The Weather Center package is pretty interesting because the style of the segment openers is the same as the style of the show opener, much like the 98-01 and 01-03 openers, so I chose WC. The music is pretty good, too.

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OCMs & Personalities / Re: "Don't put Viagra on your windshield wipers..."

« on: June 09, 2008, 04:36:54 PM »

Yesterday towards the end of the first hour, Dave pretended to spill a cup of ice tea all over Kim and fumbled with the cup (which was empty of course).  "Oh, I guess that was the empty one" he said.  Kim then said "And I gotta work two more hours with him". 
In the last hour, he also asked for a refill of water:  "Roscoe!  Refill!"  Kim then said: "When I get home, I'm gonna have more than just water."  Great seeing those two reunited since the late 1990s.

I have both those moments on tape. I'll upload them later.

Thanks. I haven't watched my recording yet, but I think it was interrupted by the severe weather blocking my satellite dish.

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Everything Else TWC / Re: Blooper Thread

« on: June 09, 2008, 05:06:42 AM »

Now full control is messing up today by sourcing an old WPS-style Travel Weather precip forecast map with the 05-08 title bar. I wonder why such a map would've even been made up for today...

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Your Local Weather / Re: Chicagoland Weather

« on: June 09, 2008, 12:16:10 AM »

I wish I would've been outside a few minutes ago, we just had an outflow boundary pass through.

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

« on: June 09, 2008, 12:13:55 AM »

Hey, "you guys," it looks like Master figured out how to use both sides of the projector screen tonight. I wonder if we'll see this for all editions of EEWC from now on.

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Everything Else TWC / Re: General TWC Discussion

« on: June 08, 2008, 10:56:09 PM »

It looks like the storms actually are tracking south, so TWC seems to have forecasted this one right. I wish they'd stick around for another hour...

Oh well, at least we'll have local news all hour. (ABC affiliates will have a later newscast due to the NBA Finals coverage)

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Everything Else TWC / Re: General TWC Discussion

« on: June 08, 2008, 10:44:54 PM »

It's a shame that NWS LOT radar broke down during this critical period, but I'm seeing movement to the northeast on some cells and to the southeast on others with some cells even combining; it certainly doesn't look easy to tell exactly what's going on; it seems like a pretty complex situation.

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Everything Else TWC / Re: General TWC Discussion

« on: June 08, 2008, 10:39:36 PM »

Odd. Adam mentioned a southern movement to a tornado-producing storm in southeastern Wisconsin, which would mean that the storm is headed toward me, but my local Fox affiliate is saying that all of the area's storms are tracking northeast, which would put me out of the path. I wonder why the conflict? (although I do see a possible southern movement that Adam might also be seeing; I wonder how it's all going to pan out)

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Everything Else TWC / Re: General TWC Discussion

« on: June 08, 2008, 10:21:56 PM »

This must be "learn about Kristin Dodd's family" night. Now we know that her mom is dealing with flooding, and her sister is coming to visit me (figuratively) in Chicago.

Edit: Now her daughter went down to Florida on a dolphin watching ride.

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Everything Else TWC / Re: Blooper Thread

« on: June 08, 2008, 10:17:38 PM »

They just displayed a Weekend Getaway graphic that appears to be from last week's YWT. It displayed a forecast for Saturday (probably because it's within the next seven days), but Sunday just displayed a dash.

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General Discussion / Re: Happy Birthday Writer323!

« on: June 08, 2008, 10:09:41 PM »

Happy Birthday!

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Everything Else TWC / Re: General TWC Discussion

« on: June 08, 2008, 10:07:19 PM »

Crap, I forgot to record EE in HD tonight; I only have it in SD.

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

« on: June 08, 2008, 10:05:27 PM »

What do you think about the cut-off content though? Do you think they should keep the camera shot and re-work the maps to make them more friendly to that shot? "That sounds like a plan" to me.

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OCMs & Personalities / Re: "Don't put Viagra on your windshield wipers..."

« on: June 08, 2008, 09:37:45 PM »

Kim has made a better foil for Dave than other partners of late. (Carl, Kristin, Kelly, et al)

Does anyone think Dave is a little off still? He seems to be making more mistakes in things he says. I still love him and his off-the-wall humor, though.

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Everything Else TWC / Re: General TWC Discussion

« on: June 08, 2008, 08:21:14 PM »

Since when has Weekend Now split up the Weekly Planner into two segments? Today at both 12:20 and 1:20 PM ET, they did the precipitation segments of the Weekly Planner at :20 then showed a Weather Ready segment, a commercial break, and then came back at :24 to present the temperature portion of the Weekly Planner.

What sense does that make? 

They've done that for quite some time now; there's barely any time for either segment because of the silly Lifestyles segments at :21 during Weekend Now.