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Local Forecast / Krackin' Up by the Lenny Marcus Trio

« on: December 19, 2014, 12:38:06 AM »

Years ago, I heard a lively jazz piano song on the local forecast. Somehow, I never managed to hear it again. Or so I thought. I've been going through all my VHS tapes over the last month, trying to throw away as many of them as possible. I started watching one tonight, and the very first thing on the tape was (I believe) this song. I use the words "I believe" because I only heard it once or twice, and it's been years since the last time. The local forecast comes from September 30, 2003.

As I recall, I tried to find the song by looking at that month's playlist. It wasn't listed. I thought maybe I was misremembering it or something. Now I know for sure that it was left off the playlist. Long story even longer, I discovered tonight (thanks to my cell phone) that it was "Krackin' Up" by the Lenny Marcus Trio. I originally suspected it was by them, but for some reason was never able to find it.

Anyone else remember this song?

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Local Forecast / Re: Have these songs played on the weather channel before?

« on: December 15, 2014, 10:24:21 AM »

Was Intimate Strangers by the Rippingtons ever used on TWC/

Oh yes.

http://www.twcclassics.com/watch.php?file=intimate%20strangers

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Programming and Graphics / Re: Special Message - One Year of #ItsAmazingOutThere

« on: November 12, 2014, 03:34:10 PM »

One year ago (11/12/13), TWC switched to the new Weather All The Time Graphics.  It's nuts it's been that long.

Why is it nuts? They've run slogans for a lot longer than that in the past.

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Emulator Videos / Re: STAR 4 v. 3 emulator videos....

« on: November 11, 2014, 10:23:51 AM »

Why are you using the NOAA logo instead of TWC? And why does it sound like Dan is talking in an echo chamber?

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

« on: November 04, 2014, 07:42:07 PM »

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

I saw that the other day. I thought it was funny when the announcer mentioned that weather would be front and center, yet below the current conditions were the usual stories about whales, creepy buildings, and 80s bikinis.

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Questions, Comments, Suggestions / Re: Unknowns

« on: October 31, 2014, 10:41:04 AM »

Shoot. I was going to add them to the unknowns page. I'll do that tonight. Thanks for the reminder!

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Local Forecast / Re: General LF Discussion

« on: October 29, 2014, 11:21:35 PM »

I agree with Andy. This is a public forum, Sam. If you have something to share, please do. If it's something you can't share, then keep it to yourself. Thanks.

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General Discussion / Re: Weather Channel Founder -there is no global warming

« on: October 28, 2014, 03:22:55 PM »

I'm not sure what everyone is talking about him all of a sudden. He's been calling global warming a lie for a long time.

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

« on: October 27, 2014, 09:29:23 PM »

Carl Parker, filling in for Mike Bettes, made kind of a bizarre political joke this morning. He said that he's dressing up as Big Bird for Halloween to "irritate Mitt Romney." Yeah, remember that? Sam does, and his reaction was... obnoxious.

http://www.mediaite.com/tv/watch-sam-champion-laugh-uncontrollably-at-an-outdated-romney-joke/

I read about this on NewsBusters earlier today. What a dumb and old joke. As Obama would say, 2012 called and it wants it's joke back. I suppose I could cut Carl and Sam some slack if the joke made sense. Mitt said that he liked Big Bird, but didn't think that tax payers needed to support him (and all of PBS). So I don't see how dressing up as Big Bird would be irritating to Mitt. Stick to the weather guys.

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Everything Else Classic TWC / Re: Late 80s station ID, unknown song

« on: October 24, 2014, 01:27:03 AM »

Found it! Someone sent me an email identifying one of my unknowns tonight. Naturally I listened to clips of every song off the album, and one of them was this song! It's called "Not That Kind Of Girl" and is by Joyride (which featured Lee Ritenour).

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Everything Else TWC / Re: TWC website criticism

« on: October 22, 2014, 10:29:43 AM »

Are you saying I'm wrong for saying false headlines?

No. Obviously I was agreeing with you.

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Everything Else TWC / Re: TWC website criticism

« on: October 22, 2014, 12:56:51 AM »

False headlines? That's a new one. According to another article on the site, they also did this in May about the forecast for the upcoming hurricane season. It was forecast to be at or slightly below normal, but TWC titled the article "NOAA Hurricane Forecast May Shock You." Seriously!? They later changed it when some people complained, but still...wow.

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OCMs & Personalities / Re: Cheryl Lemke now in Omaha, NE

« on: October 16, 2014, 10:25:54 AM »

Eh, not anymore... 

http://www.mediabistro.com/tvspy/omaha-meteorologist-says-her-contract-wasnt-renewed_b131542#disqus_thread

Wow, that was fast.

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General Discussion / Re: WN is WORSE than TWC!

« on: October 14, 2014, 03:59:17 PM »

I'll have to check it tonight. There weren't any infomercials the last time I watched.

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Local Forecast / Re: Joe LoCascio

« on: October 05, 2014, 09:45:30 PM »

Is "Amanda's World" the only one that aired?

As far as I know. I didn't recognize any of the other songs.