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Everything Else TWC / Re: New Graphics for all shows

« on: June 07, 2008, 06:46:46 AM »

Nice to see Weekend Outlook is TWC's recycling center for openers.....

Also, the new opener is not 4:3 safe; the K is cut off.

Wow, nice job by the graphic makers. I wonder if this means we'll eventually see a butchered in-house version of the opener to correct this problem instead of paying the design company to fix the problem.

BTW, they are actually letterboxing the Lifestyles segments on the SD feed today and presenting them in HD on the HD feed; that's about the only thing this morning Master crew has managed to get right. The LIVE tag is still up and is still obstructing the map titles.

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

« on: June 07, 2008, 06:38:27 AM »

I wonder if EEWC will go fully live for the first time in HD tonight; there's a lot of severe weather going on tonight.

Nope, but Sharon's using the projector wall, and Rich is using the key wall. Looks like Master can only use the projector wall for one OCM per broadcast.

Just a quick note, Master Control, and full control (X3) have the same abilities now.

If that's the case, why are Master-produced shows behaving the way they always have since June 2007? You can still pick out a Master-produced show like you could pick out a black sheep in a herd of 100 white sheep.

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Everything Else TWC / Re: New Graphics for all shows

« on: June 07, 2008, 05:22:23 AM »

Now it's time to open up that planner book and walk toward the Pike Place Market because it's time for the 03-05 Weekend Planner Weekly Planner!

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Everything Else TWC / Re: New Graphics for all shows

« on: June 07, 2008, 04:46:06 AM »

Now, from the "Wow, I never thought I'd ever see this on the air again" department, They just played the 03-05 Weekend Planner Travel opener at 3:40 CT. Whoever is in Master today is really messing things up!

They're also playing a Dr. Anna Marie segment that looks like it's in HD; 4:3 viewers, however, are probably getting the edges cut off unless it was letterboxed for you guys. The segment wasn't 4:3 safe.

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Everything Else TWC / Re: New Graphics for all shows

« on: June 07, 2008, 04:32:16 AM »

Ugh, how cheap! The Weekend Outlook package is just the First Outlook package with a different logo, slightly different colors, and different music. Somehow I'm not surprised, though.

They're also using the 05-08 generic LIVE bug. Somebody in Master apparently doesn't know they're not supposed to use that anymore. They're also using the afternoon L3s.

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OCMs & Personalities / Really?

« on: June 07, 2008, 02:11:26 AM »

http://youtube.com/watch?v=EiHjr7Iwaw4&feature=related

Lisa Mozer and Rich Johnson in 2003? I always thought Lisa left after her EEWC stint with Dave. When did she finally stop being a fill-in and leave the network?

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Everything Else TWC / Re: New Graphics for all shows

« on: June 07, 2008, 12:34:02 AM »

Well, time for me to stay up late to see the new weekend packages. Weekend Now is definitely going to be watched on a recording, though; there's no way I'm staying up until 10 AM local time.

Also look out for the new co-anchor of Weekend Now tomorrow; it should be Kim Perez.

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Everything Else TWC / Re: General TWC Discussion

« on: June 06, 2008, 10:15:11 PM »

It's working on DirecTV.

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General Discussion / Re: I'm such a dope...

« on: June 06, 2008, 05:15:45 PM »

Here's the HP one I've been considering: http://www.samsclub.com/shopping/navigate.do?dest=5&item=394073&pCatg=5680

Wow, that's a deal - a whole extra gig of RAM for the same or less than the price I paid.

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

« on: June 06, 2008, 05:08:07 PM »

The recorded portions of EEWC last night were once again shown in letterboxed HD for the SD channel. The lone exception was any live weather updates they did, like at 1:10 AM ET, which were not letterboxed.

That also makes me wonder... if my STAR would've failed last night, which satellite LF would I have seen? SD or HD?

You probably would've seen the SD satellite LF since that's still running live. A number of things would have to fail in order to see the HD LF; most notably, they'd have to actually be playing that back from the recording, and I'm not quite sure if that's normally done at all.

As for the PME teaser, I'm a bit disappointed that we'll never see the regular PME opener except on weekends and whenever they choose not to use the recorded teaser on weekdays. The new recorded teaser uses a watered-down version of the opener.

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

« on: June 06, 2008, 04:23:01 AM »

Oh, I also meant to add that the precip forecast maps shown at the top of the hour were completely out of whack. They didn't match up with any of the weather patterns in the coming days. The actual forecast icons were correct, though.

Oh, and the city indicators are still gone from the Weekly Planner maps. I guess they realized how annoying they were.

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

« on: June 06, 2008, 04:07:38 AM »

Re: The cut off sides on the 4:3 telecast. I compared the view of the SD channel on LCD TV and my old-fashioned CRT; and it looked fine on the LCD but cut off on the CRT. It looks like they're positioning the cameras without regard to the safe zone. You could only properly view that broadcast of EEWC if you could see the full overscan area.

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

« on: June 06, 2008, 02:27:35 AM »

Rich just made a funny. He said, "It's going to be hot Saturday in Washington D.C. with highs in the mid 90s; then again, there's always hot air in Washington *chuckle*"

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

« on: June 06, 2008, 12:43:09 AM »

When they're using the video wall, they really need to make sure the map titlebars fit on the screen for SD viewers. I can't count how many times this week I've seen things like "IDAY'S FORECAST" or "UNDERSTORM FORECAST."

Either (a) they need to set up a preset range that the camera can safely operate inside, or (b) they need to move the map titlebars closer to the center of the graphic.

They did that on the projector, too?

I've only known of them doing that on the key wall until now.

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

« on: June 05, 2008, 11:58:21 PM »

Is Sharon so dippy all the time?  She acted like she was drunk at the beginning of the 11PM hour.   

Apparently that's what EEWC does to you. See: Hillary Andrews

A few minutes ago, there was one of those strange discontinuous catchphrase uses:

Sharon: Before we can get to the weekend, we have to get through Friday first.

Rich: Yeah, let's do that.