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Title: Weatherscan Segments
Post by: Mike M on August 04, 2008, 12:21:01 AM
For those who have or had Weatherscan, which segments does your unit have on its playlist?

Camden, NJ Weatherscan has:

Camden
Burlington
Gloucester City (unnecessary - it's literally next to Camden)
Radar
Traffic
Airport
Travel
Health
Title: Re: Weatherscan Segments
Post by: Tyler on August 04, 2008, 12:35:47 AM
FiOS Pittsburgh:
Pittsburgh forecast
Radar
Traffic
Travel
Airport
Health
Garden
Golf
Ski & Snow


Comcast Pittsburgh:
Pittsburgh forecast
Washington forecast
Wheeling forecast
Radar
Traffic
Travel
Airport
Health
Golf
Title: Re: Weatherscan Segments
Post by: Alejandro on August 06, 2008, 09:42:25 PM
Comcast- Fall River (Brockton Headend)

Your Local Radar
Brockton Forecast
Metro West Forecast (Waltham)
Taunton Forecast
Barnstable Forecast
Garden
Traffic
Health
Airport
Ski & Snow
Travel
Title: Re: Weatherscan Segments
Post by: Mike M on August 06, 2008, 10:11:34 PM
All Comcast Southeast Pennsylvania region units (including Philadelphia)

Local Forecast
Radar (most display it as [city name] radar)
Traffic
Airport
Travel
Health
Garden (seasonal)
Golf (seasonal)
Boat & Beach (seasonal)
Ski (seasonal)
Title: Re: Weatherscan Segments
Post by: beanboy89 on August 06, 2008, 10:30:45 PM
Mine in Lancaster had the following:


I think that's all of them. I wish I had recorded more Weatherscan videos before Cocmast removed it.
Title: Re: Weatherscan Segments
Post by: Evan2015 on August 07, 2008, 12:48:01 AM
nothing extra just:

Frankfort
Local Radar
Title: Re: Weatherscan Segments
Post by: Mike M on August 07, 2008, 12:59:38 AM
nothing extra just:

Frankfort
Local Radar
That how it basically was like in Philadelphia area Weatherscans on Comcast until early 2005, except it was before the local radar was added.
Title: Re: Weatherscan Segments
Post by: Spring Rubber on August 09, 2008, 03:07:55 PM
Was it *basically* like that, gang?
Title: Re: Weatherscan Segments
Post by: Mike M on August 14, 2008, 12:40:27 AM
Comcast Pittsburgh:
Pittsburgh forecast
Washington forecast
Wheeling forecast
Radar
Traffic
Travel
Airport
Health
Golf
There's another Weatherscan for Pittsburgh/Penn Hills, right? I remember you said there was a Pittsburgh/Penn Hills that you wish you received but your headend chose to have the other one.
Title: Re: Weatherscan Segments
Post by: Tyler on August 14, 2008, 12:56:16 AM
Comcast Pittsburgh:
Pittsburgh forecast
Washington forecast
Wheeling forecast
Radar
Traffic
Travel
Airport
Health
Golf
There's another Weatherscan for Pittsburgh/Penn Hills, right? I remember you said there was a Pittsburgh/Penn Hills that you wish you received but your headend chose to have the other one.

I actually forgot about that unit, and yes, you're right. I never got to see that one. Why they opted not to use that unit I'll NEVER know. Instead, we were getting weather for other cities besides Pittsburgh, like Washington and Wheeling, which was useless to me.

It was the Pittsburgh North unit:

Downtown Pittsburgh
New Kensington
Penn Hills
Radar
Traffic
Travel
Airport
Health
Golf
Title: Re: Weatherscan Segments
Post by: Tyler on August 14, 2008, 10:00:53 AM
Our FiOS coverage area expanded the other day as a few more communities north and south came on board, and thus, Weatherscan's config changed too. Here's the current config, which I like. Packages like Airport are more regionalized, with airports that Pittsburghers travel to.

The Garden and Health packages remain unchanged.

Ob: Downtown Pittsburgh
Forecast: Metro Pittsburgh

CRAWL CITIES:
Regional:
   1. Altoona, PA
   2. Cleveland, OH
   3. Columbus, OH
   4. Detroit, MI
   5. DuBois, PA
   6. Erie, PA
   7. Harrisburg, PA
   8. New Castle, PA
   9. Philadelphia, PA
  10. Washington, DC

Local:
   1. Beaver Falls
   2. Bethel Park
   3. Butler
   4. Greensburg
   5. Kittanning
   6. Latrobe
   7. Penn Hills
   8. Sewickley
   9. Washington
  10. Wexford

Airports:
   1. KPIT - Pittsburgh Int'l Airport
   2. KAGC - Allegheny Co. Airport
   3. KPHL - Philadelphia Int'l Airport


RADAR:
L-bar/Mini:
   1. Pittsburgh
   2. Latrobe
   3. Butler
   4. New Castle

Pittsburgh:
   1. Pittsburgh
   2. Penn Hills
   3. Bethel Park
   4. Greensburg
   5. Latrobe
   6. New Kensington
   7. Kittanning
   8. Washington
   9. Weirton
  10. Butler
  11. Ellwood City
  12. Beaver Falls
  13. McCandless


TRAVEL PACKAGE:
Travel Cities:
   1. Atlantic City, NJ
   2. Cleveland, OH
   3. Erie, PA
   4. Harrisburg, PA
   5. Myrtle Beach, SC
   6. New York City, NY
   7. Philadelphia, PA
   8. Virginia Beach, VA
   9. Washington, DC


Travel Map:
   1. Pittsburgh
   2. Cleveland
   3. Charleston, WV
   4. Philadelphia
   5. New York City
   6. Washington DC
   7. Columbus
   8. Lexington
   9. Williamsport




AIRPORT PACKAGE:
Local:
   1. KPIT - Pittsburgh Int'l
   2. KAGC - Allegheny Co. Arpt.


National:

   1. KATL – Atlanta – Hartsfield Jackson Int’l
   2. KACY – Atlantic City Int’l Airport
   3. KBWI – Baltimore – Washington Int'l Airport
   4. KBOS – Boston – Logan Int’l Airport
   5. KCLE – Cleveland - Hopkins Int'l Airport
   6. KDFW – Dallas/Ft. Worth Int’l Airport
   7. KDTW – Detroit Metro Wayne Airport
   8. KORD – Chicago - O’Hare Int’l Airport
   9. KLAX – Los Angeles Int’l Airport
  10. KMIA – Miami Int’l Airport
  11. KMYR – Myrtle Beach Int’l Airport
  12. KJFK – New York/JFK Int’l Airport
  13. KPHL – Philadelphia Int'l Airport
  14. KPHX – Phoenix – Sky Harbor Int’l Airport
  15. KSFO – San Francisco Int’l Airport
  16. KIAD – Washington - Dulles Int’l Airport


GOLF PACKAGE:
Golf courses:

   1. Southpointe Golf Club/Canonsburg
   2. Alcoma Golf Club/Penn Hills
   3. Diamond Run Golf Club/Sewickley

TRAFFIC:
Metro Pittsburgh

Flows:
   1. Rt 28: Highland Park Brg to Harmar Twp/PA Turnpike
   2. I-376: Penn Hills to Squirrel Hill Tunnel
   3. I-376: Squirrel Hill Tunnel to Rt 885/Blvd of the Alies
   4. PA Tpk: Warrendale/Cranberry to Pittsburgh Interchange (at I-376/Bus 22)
   5. Rt 51: Rt 88/Library Rd to West End Circle
   6. I-279: Pittsburgh Int'l Arpt. to Ft. Pitt Bridge

Title: Re: Weatherscan Segments
Post by: wxmancanada on August 14, 2008, 02:01:51 PM
 :blink: Holy crap, thats a lot.
Title: Re: Weatherscan Segments
Post by: Mike M on November 28, 2008, 10:14:48 PM
Comcast Pleasantville's Weatherscan has underwent many changes since 2006. The current conditions and forecasts are now for the Atlantic City area instead of Pleasantville (this likely happened around late 06 or early 07). It also uses new local obs sites, and even the airports and travel cities are arranged differently than other Weatherscans in the area. What's also uniquely different is that this Weatherscan has a more zoomed in radar for the radar segment. Most others in the area use the same radar for the Radar and Forecast segments. Also, on the Station ID page it uses a neat sunny beach background, instead of the Philadelphia skyline like what it used to show.

Segments:

Atlantic City Area (CC: Atlantic City Boardwalk)
Local Radar (formerly Pleasantville Radar)
Travel
Airports (formerly Airport)
Health
Title: Re: Weatherscan Segments
Post by: Localonthe8s on November 28, 2008, 10:27:56 PM
You didn't go to my area today, didn't you? :o
Title: Re: Weatherscan Segments
Post by: Mike M on November 28, 2008, 10:30:36 PM
No, this was what I saw when I was in Sea Isle City, NJ. The Pleasantville and Avalon headends both get this Weatherscan. I did however pass by Northfield (which I think is pretty close to where you live) while on the GSP on my way back.
Title: Re: Weatherscan Segments
Post by: Localonthe8s on November 28, 2008, 10:35:39 PM
I didn't know Sea Isle had the same config as us. Sea Isle is quite far from P'ville.
Title: Re: Weatherscan Segments
Post by: Mike M on November 28, 2008, 10:37:35 PM
We do get a different domestic IntelliStar than what Atlantic City has though. The CC are from Atlantic City and the forecast is for "Atlantic/Cape May County." Why they opted to have a city that isn't served by this Istar as the CC site I have no clue...
Title: Re: Weatherscan Segments
Post by: Mike M on November 30, 2008, 12:19:55 PM
I'm trying to email Comcast's E-Care service about adding the International Forecast to the Philadelphia Weatherscan, but they don't seem to understand what I'm asking. They just give me an email with no useful information, like how adding this segment would meet FCC standards, etc, and that they would go to the technical support team to closely monitor this (as if it were a technical issue). I then tried another headend and they told me to contact TWC about this, when it's the affiliates choice about what segments to show. Any ideas?
Title: Re: Weatherscan Segments
Post by: jtmal0723 on November 30, 2008, 01:32:17 PM
I'm trying to email Comcast's E-Care service about adding the International Forecast to the Philadelphia Weatherscan, but they don't seem to understand what I'm asking. They just give me an email with no useful information, like how adding this segment would meet FCC standards, etc, and that they would go to the technical support team to closely monitor this (as if it were a technical issue). I then tried another headend and they told me to contact TWC about this, when it's the affiliates choice about what segments to show. Any ideas?
well go to TWC about this, and most likely, they'll talk to the headend if you do it properly.
Title: Re: Weatherscan Segments
Post by: beanboy89 on November 30, 2008, 01:46:43 PM
The Chambersburg Weatherscan has these segments:

Chambersburg
Carlisle
Local Radar
Health
Ski
Airport
Travel
Title: Re: Weatherscan Segments
Post by: Tyler on November 30, 2008, 02:10:32 PM
What are all the available segments? Here's what I can recall:

Radar
Traffic
Health
Travel
Airports
Golf
Ski & Snow
Boat & Beach
International

Is that all of them?
Title: Re: Weatherscan Segments
Post by: Mike M on November 30, 2008, 02:13:29 PM
You left out Garden. I think that might be all of them. International is the only one Philadelphia doesn't have.
Title: Re: Weatherscan Segments
Post by: toxictwister00 on January 28, 2009, 04:54:26 PM
The Ski forecast was added to my Weatherscan today, I don't think I have ever had that segment before. :no:
Title: Re: Weatherscan Segments
Post by: Evan2015 on January 28, 2009, 08:47:41 PM
Possibly you're unit is beta testing that segment to see if Atlanta Likes it. Kinda Like how FPB did those 5 segments back in May.
Title: Re: Weatherscan Segments
Post by: Mike M on January 28, 2009, 09:14:27 PM
Wow, I figured Atlanta would have that sooner seeing how that's where TWC is. We've had ski on the Bucks County Weatherscan since 2005.
Title: Re: Weatherscan Segments
Post by: Tyler on January 28, 2009, 09:30:18 PM
The Ski forecast was added to my Weatherscan today, I don't think I have ever had that segment before. :no:

It's quite possible the segment was supposed to be there all along, and it was just disabled. They might of recently pulled the unit up to make a change or reset it and saw the ski package was off and enabled it. :yes:
Title: Re: Weatherscan Segments
Post by: Evan2015 on January 29, 2009, 10:28:13 AM
The Ski forecast was added to my Weatherscan today, I don't think I have ever had that segment before. :no:

It's quite possible the segment was supposed to be there all along, and it was just disabled. They might of recently pulled the unit up to make a change or reset it and saw the ski package was off and enabled it. :yes:
hmmm... never thought of that, and I know that Frankfort wouldn't get that since the nearest ski range is Paoli Peaks (which uses dry ice instead of snow) in Paoli, IN
Title: Re: Weatherscan Segments
Post by: toxictwister00 on January 30, 2009, 09:26:42 PM
The Ski forecast was added to my Weatherscan today, I don't think I have ever had that segment before. :no:

It's quite possible the segment was supposed to be there all along, and it was just disabled. They might of recently pulled the unit up to make a change or reset it and saw the ski package was off and enabled it. :yes:

I believe your right Tyler, We just got the Garden segment this past Spring, we didn't have that before either.
Title: Re: Weatherscan Segments
Post by: toxictwister00 on March 22, 2009, 10:07:22 AM
The Ski forecast was added to my Weatherscan today, I don't think I have ever had that segment before. :no:

This segment is still on here for now. I have these right now including the updates I noticed this morning are:

4 cities - Atlanta, Woodstock, Alpharetta, Marietta
Local Radar (update to cities and coverage area of radar)
Traffic
Travel
Golf (changes made by new cities added)
Airport
Ski & Snow
Health

I think the Garden segment should be back soon I guess. Dallas and Douglasville,Ga were replaced by Sandy Springs, Duluth and Cumming,Ga on the black scroll. Also Chattanooga Airport was added to the Current Airport conditions on the black scroll. I'll update this when and if I see more updates.
Title: Re: Weatherscan Segments
Post by: Evan2015 on March 22, 2009, 12:00:34 PM
Man I wish FPB would get their heads out of their asses and make Frankfort's become "real" like the rest of America's. We haven't seen an extra package since early last June when thay took them away. Now Really do 5 packages slow it down that much, not as much as 9 like one of Mike's!
Title: Re: Weatherscan Segments
Post by: toxictwister00 on March 25, 2009, 12:09:39 PM
I saw the Travel segment for the first time today and I was surprised to see the places for the Destination Forecast had all been changed to Southeastern Universities? :blink: They used to be major US cities like New York, Chicago, Dallas, Los Angeles etc. Also on the regional forecast, Memphis,TN and Birmingham,AL were removed and replaced with Jackson,MS and Pensacola,FL.
Title: Re: Weatherscan Segments
Post by: Mike M on March 25, 2009, 03:15:58 PM
Yeah, a lot of Weatherscans are starting to show local/regional cities on the Travel segment. Philadelphia and SE PA's Weatherscans have local cities, but my Camden Weatherscan has national cities arranged in no particular order.
Title: Re: Weatherscan Segments
Post by: toxictwister00 on May 19, 2009, 10:26:38 PM
Here's what my Garden segment looks like

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zlkoir7v5wc# (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zlkoir7v5wc#)
Title: Re: Weatherscan Segments
Post by: Evan2015 on May 21, 2009, 07:11:46 PM
DANG!!! 4 AIRPORTS!?!?! I envy you :P

Speaking of segments this is about the one year anniversary of when FPB beta-tested those Five segments last year, i believe my line-up was:

Frankfort
Local Radar
Travel
Airport
Garden
Health
Golf

for a grand total of 7 segments those were the (8) days 
Title: Re: Weatherscan Segments
Post by: BOLT96 on May 25, 2009, 08:29:16 AM
Did old weatherscan xl v.2 ever have an air quality forecast?  :thinking:
Title: Re: Weatherscan Segments
Post by: gt1racerlHDl on May 25, 2009, 05:59:02 PM
Got a Rare find for you guys

Ever heard of the International segment on WeatherScan?

(http://img30.imageshack.us/img30/3773/rarefind1.jpg) (http://img30.imageshack.us/my.php?image=rarefind1.jpg)
 (http://g.imageshack.us/img30/rarefind1.jpg/1/)
Title: Re: Weatherscan Segments
Post by: Tyler on May 25, 2009, 06:16:22 PM
Heard of it, but like you said, it's rare.
Title: Re: Weatherscan Segments
Post by: Mike M on May 25, 2009, 06:40:28 PM
Yeah, Verizon seems to be the the company that prefers it the most. The only Comcast headend I know that carries International is in Richmond I believe. I wish I had that segment.
Title: Re: Weatherscan Segments
Post by: gt1racerlHDl on May 25, 2009, 07:46:25 PM
Yep Mike International is on Richmond's WeatherScan

(http://img40.imageshack.us/img40/9159/intlpk11.jpg) (http://img40.imageshack.us/my.php?image=intlpk11.jpg)
 (http://g.imageshack.us/img40/intlpk11.jpg/1/)
Title: Re: Weatherscan Segments
Post by: Zach on May 25, 2009, 07:52:27 PM
Heh I wish I could've asked my uncle about this if he still had Comcast instead of FiOS. :P
Title: Re: Weatherscan Segments
Post by: gt1racerlHDl on October 20, 2009, 07:43:57 PM
Ski returns on my Wxscan

Title: Re: Weatherscan Segments
Post by: Mike M on October 20, 2009, 09:58:03 PM
Wow, it's early, but not surprised with the early season snow in some spots. I'll see if Ski came to my weatherscan this weekend and post clips if it did.
Title: Re: Weatherscan Segments
Post by: Mike M on October 24, 2009, 04:38:02 PM
Still getting summer segments here. Last year ski came on 10/28 so we should be getting that segment soon.
Title: Re: Weatherscan Segments
Post by: Tyler on October 24, 2009, 09:54:13 PM
They do it region by region, headend by headend. There's no specific date as to when you will see winter segments.
Title: Re: Weatherscan Segments
Post by: toxictwister00 on November 11, 2009, 10:56:33 PM
This week the Ski and Snow segment came back on my Weatherscan unit.
Title: Re: Weatherscan Segments
Post by: KevOwensby on March 31, 2011, 09:07:48 PM
Just got Garden and Golf back for the season here in Topeka. Looks like the spring/summer segments are back in the central plains. Health is showing allergies again, as well.
Title: Re: Weatherscan Segments
Post by: Mike M on April 03, 2011, 12:04:47 PM
Just got Garden and Golf back for the season here in Topeka. Looks like the spring/summer segments are back in the central plains. Health is showing allergies again, as well.
Same case here, as well as the boat & beach segment.
Title: Re: Weatherscan Segments
Post by: Zach on April 22, 2011, 05:45:40 PM
The Ocala, FL Cox feed uses a Wxscan from Gainesville, and to my surprise, it had packages dedicated to Ocala/Gainesville for Spanish :blink: they werent narrated in any way though, and even the radar has spanish on it and it is seperate from the other products. (ie GAINESVILLE < OCALA < GAINESVILLE ESPAÑOL < OCALA ESPAÑOL < GOLF < AIRPORT)
Title: Re: Weatherscan Segments
Post by: Tyler on April 22, 2011, 06:01:00 PM
The Ocala, FL Cox feed uses a Wxscan from Gainesville, and to my surprise, it had packages dedicated to Ocala/Gainesville for Spanish :blink: they werent narrated in any way though, and even the radar has spanish on it and it is seperate from the other products. (ie GAINESVILLE < OCALA < GAINESVILLE ESPAÑOL < OCALA ESPAÑOL < GOLF < AIRPORT)
The Spanish segment is pretty rare. Though it makes sense to have it in FL.
Title: Re: Weatherscan Segments
Post by: Mike M on April 22, 2011, 06:02:58 PM
OMG, the IntelliStar DOES have spanish segments! Does it use the same color scheme (yellow pillar bars) and backgrounds as the English segments?
Title: Re: Weatherscan Segments
Post by: Zach on April 22, 2011, 06:04:10 PM
OMG, the IntelliStar DOES have spanish segments! Does it use the same color scheme (yellow pillar bars) and backgrounds as the English segments?
Yep, all Spanish, same graphics, though no Amy Bargeron or other person doing VO's  :P
Title: Re: Weatherscan Segments
Post by: KevOwensby on January 11, 2012, 07:14:15 PM
Does Health not come on during winter anymore? All we have is Airports and Travel for our additional segments. Health was on last winter, just without the allergies screen.
Title: Re: Weatherscan Segments
Post by: Mike M on January 11, 2012, 08:59:57 PM
Does Health not come on during winter anymore? All we have is Airports and Travel for our additional segments. Health was on last winter, just without the allergies screen.
Health is supposed to be a year round segment.. either they removed it by accident or perhaps your headend requested it to be shown on summers only.
Title: Re: Weatherscan Segments
Post by: TechKitten on May 08, 2016, 06:52:31 PM
Weatherscan lineup for the former Colorado Springs Weatherscan (in correct order)
Colorado Springs
Radar
Airport
Garden
Golf
Health
Monument
Fountain
Allergy
Title: Re: Weatherscan Segments
Post by: Mike M on May 21, 2016, 03:14:45 PM
Weatherscan lineup for the former Colorado Springs Weatherscan (in correct order)
Colorado Springs
Radar
Airport
Garden
Golf
Health
Monument
Fountain
Allergy
Allergy segment? :huh:
Title: Re: Weatherscan Segments
Post by: TechKitten on May 21, 2016, 04:16:32 PM
Weatherscan lineup for the former Colorado Springs Weatherscan (in correct order)
Colorado Springs
Radar
Airport
Garden
Golf
Health
Monument
Fountain
Allergy
Allergy segment? :huh:

Whoops... I meant Travel Forecast, Allergy was a part of the Health, That was the backup lineup, it appeared on days where there were issues