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Everything Else TWC / Re: New Graphics for all shows

« on: June 05, 2008, 11:44:01 PM »

After a long pause at the end of the first hour of EEWC's teaser, they played the opener music over a "title card" to start the show; they must've had a problem calling up the opener for some reason.

Bonus points to whoever can tell me who was the female anchor of EE the last time they used a title card as an opener.

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

« on: June 05, 2008, 11:24:39 PM »

They showed that one during regular EE, as well. Even for the HD feed, they used pillar boxes and completely cut off the graphics. Apparently the right hand isn't talking to the left in terms of these Road Crew segments.

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OCMs & Personalities / Re: Alexandra Steele

« on: June 05, 2008, 09:16:25 PM »

Damn, that's a short dress she's wearing tonight. Normally you don't see dresses/skirts that short on TWC these days.

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

« on: June 05, 2008, 08:50:03 PM »

I have an HP dv9815 that I just got the day before Memorial Day. Everything's nice so far except for the fact that the mousepad driver doesn't allow you to middle click by pressing the left and right buttons simultaneously. I was actually going to buy a cheaper Toshiba, but I found out that Toshiba and Sony don't even offer scrolling on their mousepads, and that's a must, so I went with this HP, my second choice.

Also, it's a 17" widescreen, so there's a numberpad on the right side of the keyboard; it's all well and good, but I'm a bit disturbed by the right-hand "shift" key only being the size of a regular key on the keyboard with the Up arrow just to the right of it. All too often I mess up while typing and hit either the up arrow or the backslash key just to its left. I really hope I get used to it eventually.

BTW, It has a 200GB HD and 3 GB of memory. It was either $949 or $999; I can't remember which.

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OCMs & Personalities / Re: Dave Schwartz

« on: June 05, 2008, 06:51:19 PM »

It looked like Dave was wearing one of these this morning:

http://www.causekeepers.com/Merchant2/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Product_Code=4TFYPurple&Category_Code=4TF&Store_Code=C

My thoughts and prayers are still with him and his family that he's going to be all right. Long live Dave!

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

« on: June 05, 2008, 06:06:53 PM »

It's not on the desktop; it's coming from the system tray.

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Everything Else TWC / Re: Blooper Thread

« on: June 05, 2008, 05:28:59 PM »

While doing the Weekly Planner, Adam had Viz|Weather mess up on him and keep regenerating the Saturday Forecast map instead of moving forward.

On another note, the maps he was presenting were precip maps with the city indicators removed. Instead, the map displayed selected high temperature ranges (i.e. 80s, 90s, 100s) displayed inside translucent boxes.

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Everything Else TWC / Re: General TWC Discussion

« on: June 05, 2008, 05:04:06 PM »

It's Betty Davis and Adam Berg on PM Edition today!

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Everything Else TWC / Can somebody explain the thinking behind this?

« on: June 05, 2008, 04:14:39 PM »

Just a few seconds ago, they brought in reporter Julie Martin at the Expert Desk to interview the Storm Prediction Center. Why would they bring in a reporter for this? Wouldn't having a meteorologist do the interview with the SPC make a lot more sense?

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Everything Else TWC / Re: Something interesting I found...

« on: June 05, 2008, 04:12:21 PM »

I've seen that before. Isn't it on their jobs page?

You are correct, sir.

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Everything Else TWC / Re: Blooper Thread

« on: June 05, 2008, 04:04:21 PM »

For some reason, Viv and Sam are working together today, and they just displayed the two person L3 identifying Sam as "Samantha Mohr" and identifying Viv as "Samantha Mohr Brown".

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Everything Else TWC / Re: New Graphics for all shows

« on: June 05, 2008, 04:00:00 PM »

Seeing how First Outlook is now two anchors all three hours, I wonder if Weekend Outlook is the same way now. We'll have to see.

It's not anymore; for some reason they just did it that one day for no apparent reason. the first hour is back to being master controlled with only one anchor.

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

« on: June 05, 2008, 03:57:36 PM »

Is Cheryl Lemke just a fill-in for First Outlook now? I think Cheryl and Jen make a better team than Jen and Jeff.

Really? I didn't like that pairing very much.

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

« on: June 05, 2008, 07:16:22 AM »

Apparently Eboni Deon has been trained on the HD studio as a fill-in; she's filling in for Nicole today. The other possibility is that she's not trained for it; we'll see if she purposely stays away from the projector wall today.

I could've sworn I heard Nicole sounding a little raspy yesterday. If so, this has to be a worst case scenario for TWC unless they did indeed prep Eboni in the Studio in case this very thing happened.

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Everything Else TWC / Re: General TWC Discussion

« on: June 05, 2008, 07:10:49 AM »

The "Check in with Your Weather Today" returned today at the end of First Outlook, but they never did show Heather full-screen; they only showed her in the two-split.

I wonder if we'll also see the other two "check-ins" return today: PM Edition to Abrams & Bettes as well as Abrams & Bettes to Evening Edition.