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Local Forecast / Re: General LF Discussion

« on: January 31, 2015, 08:01:47 PM »

It seems TWC brought back some of the nostalgic music on their latest playlist.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?x-yt-ts=1422579428&x-yt-cl=85114404&v=yTmPc9YSF1g

Yet during Winter Storm "Juno™" coverage, I haven't heard any of those tunes, just the same old regular production tunes. 

I believe that's not real, just someone putting their own music over the video.

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Everything Else TWC / Re: The Weather Channel updates weather.com

« on: November 04, 2014, 06:54:26 PM »

Looks like there's another "new" weather.com coming:
http://www.weather.com/wx/coming-soon

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IntelliStar 2 Discussion / Re: General IS2 Discussion

« on: November 02, 2014, 11:54:03 AM »

New Orleans Cox IS2 is also lacking text on the 36 hour forecast.

Check that - was lacking text - it's there now.

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Local Forecast / Re: General LF Discussion

« on: October 30, 2014, 05:24:04 PM »

Ads are back on the IS.

Not sure how to scale down the images, so I removed them and left the links.
 
http://i.imgur.com/CMiZxAM.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/R4PCoBu.jpg

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Local Forecast / Re: General LF Discussion

« on: October 21, 2014, 12:54:47 PM »

TWC IntelliSTAR with updated graphics- Astoria, OR- Oct. 21, 2014- 8:18AM PDT

I'm not all too impressed with the updated graphics.    Also, the hashtag screen is missing on my end (just cuts to the satellite LF).

Have to agree with Tavores on the hashtag screen: it is useless. IMO TWC could have put something else in the time frame, like the Local Weather ID number or even increase the timing on the 7-day forecast. But for a useless hashtag screen? Terrible! 

Yours is kinda borked - it shouldn't have the what was the original opening screen, it should go straight to the new one. That's probably why you don't have the hashtag screen - which doesn't add much anyway.

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Everything Else TWC / Re: General TWC Discussion

« on: October 17, 2014, 06:18:26 PM »

I notice that the current hurricane coverage is using the reverse colored TWC logo that was featured in that WCL from the future show.

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Everything Else TWC / Re: The Forward Direction of TWC

« on: October 14, 2014, 07:01:37 PM »

• There will be a push to make TWC more interactive, eventually completely removing the utilization of Chroma walls and using more walls monitors ad plasma's, as seen in the recent Severe coverage by using the large AMHQ video wall for the MAX weather graphics.

The only problem I have with that is the large video wall would work better as one screen, not a group of smaller screens. I find the lines distracting - and sometimes you can see how one screen isn't quite calibrated with the next, leading to some color variations.

But this is nit-picking, I imagine many viewers don't even notice.

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Everything Else TWC / Re: General TWC Discussion

« on: October 09, 2014, 10:39:33 AM »

Any more news on the relaunch?

Not that I can say publicly, but stay tuned.  Relaunch is a strong word.

I thought we were using that word last week when we were discussing this last week in the LF thread. I'm wondering more about the timeframe. Still middle of Oct?

Pretty sure the original mention was always along of the lines of a refresh - i.e. an update of what we have now, now the top to bottom change that brought the current graphics.

I think some of it is already in place - backgrounds are different during when doing a two-shot (instead of solid, they are moving), the occasional map is not the plain one, L3 font was stretched out (and doesn't look all that great, IMO).

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Programming and Graphics / Re: New Morning Show: "AMHQ with Sam Champion"

« on: October 04, 2014, 07:54:04 PM »

Latest ratings news... it's still not good.

http://ftvlive.squarespace.com/todays-news/2014/10/3/amhq-flounders-in-the-ratings

You know, the other day I thought to myself "Guess they started using the rest of the set during the day because no one's seen it yet."

Didn't realize how true that was.

Also noticed the latest AMHQ commercials use very little Champion.

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Everything Else TWC / Re: General TWC Discussion

« on: October 03, 2014, 12:59:03 AM »

While it's nice to have full screen TWC for the first time in forever, it looks quite bad on HD because the long-form local info is right on top on the WCL logo and the L3s.

SD doesn't have that issue, obviously.

Back to long-form at 1amE/12amC (at least in New Orleans).

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Everything Else TWC / Re: General TWC Discussion

« on: September 23, 2014, 03:35:34 PM »

So a logo tweak is soon, huh? Speaking of tweaks, noticed that WCL is no longer using a "plain" background when doing a full screen two-headed shot.

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Everything Else TWC / Re: General TWC Discussion

« on: September 20, 2014, 06:59:34 PM »

This I have a problem with. They decorate the LF for this , but not Patriot Day on September 11th?!

Considering they seem to do "fun" holidays on the LOT8s these days, I'd say 9/11 is anything but.

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Everything Else TWC / Re: Weather Channel for Sale

« on: September 15, 2014, 12:33:51 PM »

If you think this is NBC making this move, you're looking at the wrong names.

This is what Blackstone and Bain Capital and investment firms do - buy something, cut the costs, then sell it for (hopfully) profit.  The three bought TWC for $3.5 billion, they'll at least make their money back.

If anything, I imagine NBC/Comcast would be very interested to keeping their ownership share if the other entities decide to part ways.

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Programming and Graphics / Re: New Sidebar Update

« on: August 12, 2014, 08:55:45 PM »

I also noticed recently a holiday countdown and pollen count were added.

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Local Forecast / Re: Traffic on LDL

« on: July 27, 2014, 11:45:25 AM »

Since I remember seeing a bunch of iHeartRadio promos recently on TWC, I wonder if perhaps the new traffic vendor is Total Traffic. Both are products of Clear Channel, and perhaps the two sides worked out a trade deal - you get our data. we get some ad time.