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Everything Else TWC / Re: New Graphics for all shows - First Outlook now with two anchors for all hour

« on: June 02, 2008, 08:15:03 AM »

It looks like Heather's side of the wall, that is the right side of the wall, looks more opaque than Marshall's.  Maybe there is more lightning on the right side of the studio that reflects more.

Now, earlier I mentioned about the black bars on the top and bottom of the maps.  What's its purpose?  Does anyone find it annoying?  I do.  I'm all for less clutter on the screen.

Are you watching in SD? Those "bars" are actually the studio.

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

« on: June 02, 2008, 08:14:08 AM »

The maps on the wall don't look nearly as nice in SD; I see what folks are saying about the stretched out look with the wall on top and the floor on the bottom. It probably looks like a downgrade to some SD viewers.

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

« on: June 02, 2008, 07:51:22 AM »

Now they they have a podium designed like the desk pulled in front of the wall for the Tropical Update segment.

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Everything Else TWC / Re: New Graphics for all shows - First Outlook now with two anchors for all hour

« on: June 02, 2008, 07:48:11 AM »

True, the maps do look a bit faded from the lighting.

I liked the comment about their new backup generator where Heather said, "Hopefully we'll never need that."

That would've come in handy on January 22, although they were still screwed without a working master control switcher.

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

« on: June 02, 2008, 07:46:06 AM »

No check with Ricky Bell at 6:40 like they used to do at that time; they're still doing it during FO, though.

They did, however, do a comprehensive Travel forecast during that segment. That's a plus.

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

« on: June 02, 2008, 07:36:42 AM »

Jim said to expect that at first. The wall is a little bit away from the OCMs.

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Everything Else TWC / Re: New Graphics for all shows - First Outlook now with two anchors for all hour

« on: June 02, 2008, 07:28:45 AM »

The First Outlook L3s, for now, are just the old ones with the logo stripped out.

Anyone notice that the "tab" on the new YWT L3s is a yellow version of the title bars used in the HD LF?

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Everything Else TWC / Re: New Graphics for all shows - First Outlook now with two anchors for all hour

« on: June 02, 2008, 07:18:30 AM »

They've also brought back the Business Travel Desk segment at :10. They better also have one at :40 still.

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Everything Else TWC / Re: New Graphics for all shows - First Outlook now with two anchors for all hour

« on: June 02, 2008, 07:09:18 AM »

"Titan HD"...

Yep, not surprising.

One segment down, and we've also seen the restoration of the anchor names being displayed for the two-person shot. They also brought back the region by region forecast at the top of the hour. I can only hope and pray they today will be the day that TWC works to restore all of the order to their broadcasts that has been systematically destroyed over the last few years.

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Everything Else TWC / Re: New Graphics for all shows - First Outlook now with two anchors for all hour

« on: June 02, 2008, 06:57:15 AM »

Yeah, let's do that.

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Everything Else TWC / Re: New Graphics for all shows - First Outlook now with two anchors for all hour

« on: June 02, 2008, 06:54:19 AM »

Less than 6 minutes... I'm excited!

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Everything Else TWC / Re: New Graphics for all shows - First Outlook now with two anchors for all hour

« on: June 02, 2008, 06:47:22 AM »

Looks like city names on SkyTracker are now all Helvetica. I guess we won't have to worry about this now, will we?

They actually have been testing out a different font for the last several weeks on SkyTracker for select cities in the southeast and northeast. It looked pretty odd, IMO.

I'm also wondering if the WPS-style maps might be running through SkyTracker. Ever since last weekend, they've actually gained the ability to run WPS through SkyTracker, and Carl Parker had a field day by putting all of his usual telestration on top of the WPS maps to start his segments. He must love it. Further evidence includes a fade between the radar and the surface map earlier this morning; they've been using more elaborate transitional effects to switch sources this morning.

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Everything Else TWC / Re: New Graphics for all shows - First Outlook now with two anchors for all hour

« on: June 02, 2008, 06:42:08 AM »

Apparently the blue bar went national this morning.

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Everything Else TWC / Re: New Graphics for all shows - First Outlook now with two anchors for all hour

« on: June 02, 2008, 06:32:52 AM »

Do you have the new Blue Bar yet? Perhaps you STAR is updating...

My eyes are starting to hurt. Better go grab a Dew.

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Local Forecast / Re: IS LDL

« on: June 02, 2008, 06:26:43 AM »

DirecTV still has the black bar. I wonder if we'll ever see anything new.