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OCMs & Personalities / Re: Carl Parker

« on: February 10, 2008, 05:12:38 PM »

The last time I remember him wearing glasses was in 2006; not sure if he's worn them since then.

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Everything Else TWC / Re: Terrible HD channel audio

« on: February 10, 2008, 04:59:37 PM »

Now the commercials are only playing through the right speaker. I wonder if TWC is working on a fix.

EDIT: Even Forecast Earth is playing only through the right speaker. This problem must effect all pre-recorded material.

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OCMs & Personalities / Carl Parker

« on: February 10, 2008, 04:33:09 PM »

Okay, here's a topic to discuss Carl Parker since we don't yet have one.

He's wearing his glasses today; I haven't seen him wear glasses for a long time.

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

« on: February 10, 2008, 03:09:02 PM »

How come HD lower thirds don't cover up the whole width of the screen on an HDTV? They just show on the center of the screen?

On what shows?

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Everything Else TWC / Re: Terrible HD channel audio

« on: February 10, 2008, 03:07:14 PM »

This is getting terrible now. Even in the middle of the national segment just now, they cranked the audio way up as Carl was talking; I had to scramble to turn the volume down before it blew my ears out.

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Everything Else TWC / Terrible HD channel audio

« on: February 10, 2008, 06:54:35 AM »

For the last day or two, the audio levels on the HD channel have been going up and down like crazy. It used to be that the commercials and the LF were much louder than the national broadcast, but as of right now, it's the exact opposite. You can hear the national audio fine, but the commercials and especially the LF music are *very* quiet. A few seconds ago, the audio levels were fluctuating so much that DirecTV killed the feed for a few minutes and put up a "technical difficulties" screen.

Edit: A few seconds after I posted this, they killed the feed again for the entire duration of the commercials. The feed returned the second the LF began.

Edit 2: Now I see why they've been killing the feed during the commercials; TWC isn't even outputting commercial audio at all on the HD channel right now! :shocked:

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Everything Else TWC / Re: Never seen this happen before

« on: February 10, 2008, 01:34:58 AM »

I prefer the "rogue master control operator with a water cooler" theory that I just made up.

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Everything Else TWC / Re: General TWC Discussion

« on: February 09, 2008, 02:13:40 AM »

At 11:10/1:10 CT tonight on EEWC, they used the 03-05 style lower third with the still current EE background that they've been using on the Weather Updates lately. I never thought that would make it into a normal broadcast.

IMO, they should just stick with that one - nice and small.

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TWC and your Cable Company / Re: Time Warner Cable adds TWC HD

« on: February 08, 2008, 10:24:24 PM »

Are these viewers seeing the HD satellite LF or the SD Intellistar?

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Everything Else TWC / Re: Never seen this happen before

« on: February 08, 2008, 10:20:37 PM »

Victor, I'm talking about the big backdrop behind the desk used for EE, YWT, etc. One of the lights behind it that help illuminate it burned out, making the whole right side look dark just as it does when they turn most of the lights off during the lower-rated hours of the day.

Lights continued to burn out tonight as before Abrams & Bettes began, some lights behind the A&B desk burned out, making the background look horribly dark. They spent the first three segments of the show using only the stand up area off to the side and the key wall until they could get the crew in there to fix the lighting. They finally returned to the desk at :20 past.

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Everything Else TWC / Never seen this happen before

« on: February 07, 2008, 09:06:13 PM »

At some point yesterday, a light on the big backdrop actually burned out. Now, the whole right side of the backdrop looks as it does when the main studio lights are off. It looks okay with the Day Planner backdrop, but it looks bad with the Your Weather Today backdrop but horrible with the Evening Edition backdrop. It's time to get the repair crew out there!

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Questions, Comments, Suggestions / Re: Next Local Across The 48's

« on: February 07, 2008, 08:54:38 PM »

Sounds good.

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Questions, Comments, Suggestions / Re: Next Local Across The 48's

« on: February 07, 2008, 07:58:41 PM »

That's during When Weather Changed History. How about either 10 minutes later or one hour earlier?

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Everything Else TWC / Re: General TWC Discussion

« on: February 06, 2008, 09:03:57 PM »

It was just pre-empted due to severe weather, not canceled.

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OCMs & Personalities / Re: Rich Johnson is starting to go Cantore on us

« on: February 06, 2008, 06:10:07 PM »

Speaking of Rich, this is quite an interesting review of Rich that I found on Google:

http://www.amazines.com/Publishing/article_detail.cfm/250503?articleid=250503

I'm assuming English might not be the author's first language...