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Title: TWC tagging along for NBC's Green Week
Post by: Spring Rubber on November 11, 2008, 12:35:51 PM
All of the green ads you've been seeing on TWC since yesterday aren't random; this year, TWC is going to be a part of NBC's Green Week, and as a result, TWC is going to be promoting environmental friendliness like crazy next week, according to the ads that launched today, and they will also be airing special weekday episodes of Forecast Earth (it better be during current long-form slots is all I'm saying). Like the rest of the NBC family, they might even turn the TWC logo green. (if they update the Intellistars to do this)
Title: Re: TWC tagging along for NBC's Green Week
Post by: ABC7 on November 11, 2008, 03:05:06 PM
More Forecast Earth? JUST WHAT I WANTED!
Title: Re: TWC tagging along for NBC's Green Week
Post by: tpirfan28 on November 11, 2008, 03:13:33 PM
...TWC is going to be promoting environmental friendliness like crazy next week...
And this is different from any other week because....?   :lol:
Title: Re: TWC tagging along for NBC's Green Week
Post by: NYwxguy on November 11, 2008, 03:21:34 PM
It looks like the extra Forecast Earth episodes will be airing at 2PM Eastern in place of the ICHT hour.
Title: Re: TWC tagging along for NBC's Green Week
Post by: Tyler on November 11, 2008, 03:46:48 PM
NBC's Green website (greenisuniversal.com) is now sporting the TWC logo underneath it's NBCU "Green Sites," except for one thing - the TWC logo turns gray upon a rollover, not green like the other logos. MY question is, why not? I think the TWC logo looks good green (or on the commercials, at least).
Title: Re: TWC tagging along for NBC's Green Week
Post by: Tyler on November 11, 2008, 08:34:16 PM
Let's just say a certain someone told me that the TWC logo (Istar LDL logo) WILL be green, as well as "other things" (he couldn't confirm what that meant, though). :biggrin:
Title: Re: TWC tagging along for NBC's Green Week
Post by: tpirfan28 on November 11, 2008, 08:41:54 PM
Flippin SWEET.
Title: Re: TWC tagging along for NBC's Green Week
Post by: narunetto on November 12, 2008, 12:41:44 PM
I was looking at the list of sites and I saw Maury and Jerry Springer... haha. What, is someone gonna have a problem with driving their gas-guzzling car and they need to go to Maury about it?! :p
Title: Re: TWC tagging along for NBC's Green Week
Post by: Spring Rubber on November 16, 2008, 05:04:22 AM
Still nothing as of the "new day" that started at 5 AM ET. I wonder when they're going too implement it. I was expecting a special top-of-the-hour bumper and everything, but no dice.
Title: Re: TWC tagging along for NBC's Green Week
Post by: wxmediafan on November 16, 2008, 07:49:19 AM
I saw a Local on the 8's opener with the green TWC logo, and the mention of NBCU..don't know if this is old or not.. :P
Title: Re: TWC tagging along for NBC's Green Week
Post by: Mike M on November 16, 2008, 11:31:47 AM
Still nothing as of the "new day" that started at 5 AM ET. I wonder when they're going too implement it. I was expecting a special top-of-the-hour bumper and everything, but no dice.
My guess is this will only happen during the week, therefore starting Monday.
Title: Re: TWC tagging along for NBC's Green Week
Post by: Tyler on November 16, 2008, 12:23:36 PM
Yeah, I think everything starts tomorrow.
Title: Re: TWC tagging along for NBC's Green Week
Post by: chris9277 on November 16, 2008, 08:14:58 PM
All IntelliSTARs now have green logo. Its ugly on the blue LDL. Maybe they should make the whole LDL green as well. Weatherscans also have green logo as well All background colors stayed.
Title: Re: TWC tagging along for NBC's Green Week
Post by: beanboy89 on November 16, 2008, 08:26:54 PM
All IntelliSTARs now have green logo. Its ugly on the blue LDL. Maybe they should make the whole LDL green as well. Weatherscans also have green logo as well All background colors stayed.
What!? Could you get a screenshot of Weatherscan?
Title: Re: TWC tagging along for NBC's Green Week
Post by: chris9277 on November 16, 2008, 08:35:33 PM
Dont have a Tuner. Like i said, its just the TWC Square Box that changed green on Weatherscan, everything else stayed the same color.
Title: Re: TWC tagging along for NBC's Green Week
Post by: beanboy89 on November 16, 2008, 08:37:48 PM
Very first video of the green logo appearing on the local forecast: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BhlvEBzxUbI
Title: Re: TWC tagging along for NBC's Green Week
Post by: Zach on November 16, 2008, 08:41:11 PM
Here's a logo I made: :sing:
Title: Re: TWC tagging along for NBC's Green Week
Post by: Mike M on November 16, 2008, 09:50:55 PM
Man I wish NBC didn't acquire TWC.

Can someone provide a screencap of Weatherscan w/ the green logo? I don't have it on basic cable here. I'll take a camera pic or from a tuner.
Title: Re: TWC tagging along for NBC's Green Week
Post by: Tyler on November 16, 2008, 09:58:55 PM
Man I wish NBC didn't acquire TWC.
...because they're changing the logo color to green for a week? I think the NBC purchase has been good thus far, and I foresee a better future for TWC. :twothumbs:
Title: Re: TWC tagging along for NBC's Green Week
Post by: jtmal0723 on November 16, 2008, 10:00:08 PM
couldn't get my slingbox working, so here you go. Taken with my cell phone... unusual quality, but good to go  :biggrin:
Title: Re: TWC tagging along for NBC's Green Week
Post by: Tyler on November 16, 2008, 10:03:28 PM
Here it is with a crawl...

(http://i262.photobucket.com/albums/ii81/tylert120/th_green_crawl.jpg) (http://s262.photobucket.com/albums/ii81/tylert120/?action=view&current=green_crawl.jpg)
Title: Re: TWC tagging along for NBC's Green Week
Post by: Mike M on November 16, 2008, 10:04:04 PM
Thanks Jesse. I wasn't expecting Weatherscan to get this update. This marks the first graphical update in nearly two years.

They should probably change the Weatherscan logo green too. It looks kinda awkward the way it is now.
Title: Re: TWC tagging along for NBC's Green Week
Post by: beanboy89 on November 16, 2008, 10:17:49 PM
Here it is with a crawl...

([url]http://i262.photobucket.com/albums/ii81/tylert120/th_green_crawl.jpg[/url]) ([url]http://s262.photobucket.com/albums/ii81/tylert120/?action=view&current=green_crawl.jpg[/url])

They changed the logo on the crawls, too? Now that's surprising.
Title: Re: TWC tagging along for NBC's Green Week
Post by: lfmusiclover on November 16, 2008, 10:21:04 PM
as long as its only temporary as Tyler says, I can live with it.  :yes:
Title: Re: TWC tagging along for NBC's Green Week
Post by: jtmal0723 on November 16, 2008, 10:29:15 PM
all TWC has to really do is upload a new TWC logo, that's pretty much it. No coding changes whatsoever, so crawls, LDL, weatherscan, etc... simple change. I don't know if the XL, 4000, or the Satellite was updated.
Title: Re: TWC tagging along for NBC's Green Week
Post by: WeatherWitness on November 16, 2008, 11:02:51 PM
Looks like weather.com is going green too. They're using this year's Earth Day banner. :yes:

But why is Green Week during November??? :blink: Shouldn't be in the spring around Earth Day, or do they want it as far away from that event as possible?
Title: Re: TWC tagging along for NBC's Green Week
Post by: Spring Rubber on November 16, 2008, 11:12:40 PM
Might have something to do with NBC wanting to promote it during Sunday Night Football... :noexpression:
Title: Re: TWC tagging along for NBC's Green Week
Post by: texasstooge on November 17, 2008, 11:18:22 AM
Here it is with a crawl...

([url]http://i262.photobucket.com/albums/ii81/tylert120/th_green_crawl.jpg[/url]) ([url]http://s262.photobucket.com/albums/ii81/tylert120/?action=view&current=green_crawl.jpg[/url])

They changed the logo on the crawls, too? Now that's surprising.

In that case, I've modified the Warning Crawls with the TWC Green Logo.

See my Fan Art portfolio. (https://twctodayforums.com/forums/index.php?topic=893.msg73138#msg73138)
Title: Re: TWC tagging along for NBC's Green Week
Post by: Mike M on November 17, 2008, 04:50:59 PM
WeatherPlus' logo hasn't changed. I'm not surprised though seeing that channel will be gone soon.
Title: Re: TWC tagging along for NBC's Green Week
Post by: Spring Rubber on November 17, 2008, 09:10:06 PM
>.>

(http://i34.tinypic.com/2nkncw1.jpg)
Title: Re: TWC tagging along for NBC's Green Week
Post by: lfmusiclover on November 17, 2008, 11:08:45 PM
>.>

([url]http://i34.tinypic.com/2nkncw1.jpg[/url])



Ewwwww. No thank you.  :lol: :P :sick:
Title: Re: TWC tagging along for NBC's Green Week
Post by: Spring Rubber on November 18, 2008, 12:44:49 AM
You mean hot and sexy, right? :biggrin:
Title: Re: TWC tagging along for NBC's Green Week
Post by: lfmusiclover on November 18, 2008, 07:45:25 AM
You mean hot and sexy, right? :biggrin:

For the colorblind, perhaps.  :P :rofl:
Title: Re: TWC tagging along for NBC's Green Week
Post by: tpirfan28 on November 18, 2008, 10:20:49 AM
Try this.
Title: Re: TWC tagging along for NBC's Green Week
Post by: lfmusiclover on November 18, 2008, 11:04:59 AM
Better, but still not something I'd put on the site.  :D
Title: Re: TWC tagging along for NBC's Green Week
Post by: Mike M on November 23, 2008, 12:52:16 PM
Gary, can your "source" tell you an exact time when the green is universal campaign is going to end? I need to know so I can record my Weatherscan rebooting.
Title: Re: TWC tagging along for NBC's Green Week
Post by: Spring Rubber on November 23, 2008, 01:04:58 PM
I would expect the same time it started: 8 PM ET, possibly 7 PM ET since that's when Football Night in America begins. Be ready around either time, IMO.
Title: Re: TWC tagging along for NBC's Green Week
Post by: lfmusiclover on November 23, 2008, 01:54:19 PM
I would heed Steve's advice. I have not seen Patrick (my source) yet today and don't know if I will since its Sunday. If I do get in touch with him, though, I'll be sure to ask and let you know.
Title: Re: TWC tagging along for NBC's Green Week
Post by: chris9277 on November 23, 2008, 08:03:56 PM
It might be overnight, green logo still on past 8 pm.
Title: Re: TWC tagging along for NBC's Green Week
Post by: tpirfan28 on November 23, 2008, 08:26:18 PM
No, NBC & MSNBC are back to normal as of 8PM E.
Title: Re: TWC tagging along for NBC's Green Week
Post by: Stephen on November 23, 2008, 08:37:11 PM
No, NBC & MSNBC are back to normal as of 8PM E.
He was talking about TWC (TWC's logo is still green). ;)
Title: Re: TWC tagging along for NBC's Green Week
Post by: Mike M on November 23, 2008, 09:38:14 PM
Hmm, then I guess TWC's logo will be green until 4AM. I have my VCR programmed to record at 3AM and 4AM on Weatherscan just in case this was going to happen at those times.
Title: Re: TWC tagging along for NBC's Green Week
Post by: Spring Rubber on November 24, 2008, 12:01:05 AM
back to blue at Midnight ET!