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General Discussion / Re: I made a Discord server about The Weather Channel

« on: June 26, 2017, 10:25:54 AM »

What the heck is a discord server?

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General Discussion / Re: This forum seems to be very quiet anymore.

« on: May 15, 2017, 10:43:25 AM »

Quote from: Mike M on May 13, 2017, 06:51:08 PM

You guys should have seen the old TWCC boards during the "meltdown" back in 2008... there would be hundreds of posts just during that overnight period. It's like what you see on your Facebook feed if you're friends with like a thousand people.

Yes! I tell that story whenever I can. I like to say that a thread on my message board went viral before "going viral" was a thing!

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General Discussion / Re: This forum seems to be very quiet anymore.

« on: May 13, 2017, 05:35:36 PM »

Quote from: texasstooge on May 11, 2017, 12:09:57 AM

We also gotta factor in social media usage. I know I'm guilty of it too, although sometimes it feels good to disconnect while on the go.

Indeed. As a long-time webmaster, I have a love/hate relationship with social media, YouTube, and Wordpress. As a user, these things are great. As a webmaster, they've taken a good chunk of my audience, and I hate that!

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Local Forecast / Re: Smooth Jazz Return!

« on: May 13, 2017, 05:32:34 PM »

No one said or implied that younger members wouldn't understand what being an adult was like. "Max" just said that since many of us are adults now, we don't have as much time to comment as we used to.

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Local Forecast / Re: Smooth Jazz Return!

« on: May 12, 2017, 11:07:24 AM »

Quote from: Lotologist492 on May 12, 2017, 03:40:25 AM

I presume until then you will inspire those of us that have not grown up to adulthood yet but rather gave into fandom of this forum...

Get a grip. He was referring to how when you become an adult, you generally have a lot less free time. You know, college, a full time job, marriage, kids?

As someone who has been covering TWC in some form for nearly 20 years, there is indeed an ebb and flow to it in terms of interest. TWCC has gone through several periods of disinterest. I remember trying a message board in 2003 and having it fall flat. I tried a second one in a few years later and it exploded. A few years after that, crickets. So we merged with this board. And that was pretty good for about a year, then crickets again. New topics can restart interest, but not always. Awhile back I was making regular updates to TWCC, and made a few posts here about them. Not one reply. And only a handful on Facebook. It sucks, but what can you do?

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Everything Else Classic TWC / Re: I'm finally posting my old TWC footage (mostly early 90's)

« on: April 05, 2017, 03:33:11 PM »

Quote from: gfalcon79 on April 04, 2017, 05:58:03 PM

If you peruse the playlists on your site (the PDF zip files from BMI or The Weather Channel), you will notice that the songs listed as LL flavors were the songs used only during Tri-State Weather.

Wow. I thought those were only used during "Headlines."

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Questions, Comments, Suggestions / Re: How to get anything higher than "Newbie"

« on: April 03, 2017, 10:23:54 AM »

You become a Jr. member when you hit 50 posts.

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Everything Else TWC / Re: Cannot Access Links

« on: March 21, 2017, 10:27:39 AM »

Assuming that you're referring to weather.com, the forecast pages work for me. They just take a few seconds to load.

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Everything Else Classic TWC / Re: Found some footage from July 1989

« on: March 20, 2017, 03:26:10 PM »

Quote from: Ice Man on March 20, 2017, 12:18:10 PM

Any particular reason for wanting the shorter ones? I've personally always been a little OCD at having long uninterrupted footage.

Yes. The longer the clip, the harder it is to scan to the part(s) that you're interested in.

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Everything Else Classic TWC / Re: I'm finally posting my old TWC footage (mostly early 90's)

« on: March 19, 2017, 11:17:16 PM »

Quote from: gfalcon79 on March 19, 2017, 08:08:39 PM

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IIRC, at least for the first week or two, Kenny G's "End of the Night" would play for the first few seconds, and then "Windows" would kick in.

Yes indeed. "End of the night" would abruptly change over to "Windows" at about 17 seconds into the LF. This occurred on the "Tri-State Weather" Local Forecasts

At just those times? Weird.

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Everything Else Classic TWC / Re: Found some footage from July 1989

« on: March 18, 2017, 11:09:40 PM »

Quote from: Ice Man on March 18, 2017, 04:58:47 PM

I'm also attempting the impossible: and might be able to upload my full 6-hour tapes.

If you do, please break them up into several shorter clips.

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Everything Else Classic TWC / Re: Found some footage from July 1989

« on: March 14, 2017, 10:24:53 AM »

https://twctodayforums.com/forums/everything-else-classic-twc/i'm-finally-posting-my-twc-footage/

I wish he'd post more!

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Everything Else Classic TWC / Re: I'm finally posting my old TWC footage (mostly early 90's)

« on: February 28, 2017, 10:37:34 AM »

These are awesome! Thanks for sharing!

I watched the one from July 1993. It's weird that your local forecast with "Windows" playing has the full song. IIRC, at least for the first week or two, Kenny G's "End of the Night" would play for the first few seconds, and then "Windows" would kick in.

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