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Re: When was TWC's best year?
« Reply #30 on: June 09, 2009, 03:27:44 PM »
I would say 2000-2003 then 2005-Sept 2008. Then things went down the toilet. :no: :thumbdown: <_<
I agreed, but it's went downhill when NBCU brought it last November.
NBCU bought TWC from Landmark in July, on the 6th I believe. Nevertheless, I agree too, that they have gone down the toilets, exponentially it seems.
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Re: When was TWC's best year?
« Reply #31 on: June 09, 2009, 03:38:16 PM »
For me, TWC went downhill when they started layout OCM's, shows those annoying Thanksgiving/Holiday Bar, and when they disconuited the old Weather Center (best WC verison ever IMO).
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Re: When was TWC's best year?
« Reply #32 on: June 11, 2009, 10:15:40 PM »
Nope, it was September 12. July was when NBC reached an agreement to buy TWC, but the purchase didn't occur until two months later.

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Re: When was TWC's best year?
« Reply #33 on: July 27, 2009, 05:51:21 PM »
1986 Was The Year That TWC Relaunched With Its Slogan, "You Need Us...For Everything You Do" Which Was Very, Very Excellent.  With The Hiring It's On-Air Personalities, Jim Cantore, Jeanetta Jones, Liz Jarvis And Tom Moore.

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Re: When was TWC's best year?
« Reply #34 on: July 27, 2009, 09:22:39 PM »
2003-2005 (It all went downhill from there)
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Re: When was TWC's best year?
« Reply #35 on: July 31, 2009, 04:04:43 PM »
The best was 2003 to 2006, IMO.
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Re: When was TWC's best year?
« Reply #36 on: May 01, 2010, 12:54:16 AM »
1995-1998 gets my vote.  Then ZDtv and Techtv came along and kind of stole my focus from TWC.  When I returned to having TWC on in the background it wasn't the same channel as it was in 1998.

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Re: When was TWC's best year?
« Reply #37 on: May 01, 2010, 01:31:25 PM »
1994-2005

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Re: When was TWC's best year?
« Reply #38 on: May 01, 2010, 04:45:57 PM »
My vote would be the early-mid '90s.  Not high on the bells and whistles, but they presented the weather very well, and that's what they're supposed to do.

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Re: When was TWC's best year?
« Reply #39 on: May 02, 2010, 01:11:36 AM »
For me, it's 1993 with 1992 in close second.
I would agree with this, and include 1990-1992 as well

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Re: When was TWC's best year?
« Reply #40 on: May 02, 2010, 03:09:00 AM »
I have such a great feeling of nostalgia from when I started watching The Weather Channel in the late 1980s, during the "You need us for everything you do" era.  Those were good days. :)  This was before I was even 10 years old... so I guess my reaction to reading my first-ever tornado watch scroll up the screen wasn't TOO unexpected.  Basically, I was scared to death.  :rofl2:

Oh, those were good days, and the quality of The Weather Channel back then was first-rate.  :thumbsup:  Marney Stanier talking about ceiling fans, Jeannetta Jones talking about different cheeses you can serve, there was another PSA I enjoyed watching, but can't remember...  And those Trane commercials airing every 5 minutes...

Yeah, those were the days!  :D

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Re: When was TWC's best year?
« Reply #41 on: May 03, 2010, 09:58:49 PM »
2000-2006 for me  :biggrin:

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Re: When was TWC's best year?
« Reply #42 on: May 03, 2010, 10:04:13 PM »
3/10/98-11/30/08.

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Re: When was TWC's best year?
« Reply #43 on: May 03, 2010, 10:48:20 PM »
2000-2006 for me  :biggrin:
Add on 2007, and count me in :biggrin:
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Re: When was TWC's best year?
« Reply #44 on: May 04, 2010, 06:59:34 PM »
Hard to choose just one. 1993 & 1995 equally. Also 2002-2003. 1990-1996 would be my favorite period of time.