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Offline Tyler

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Re: General TWC Discussion
« Reply #1695 on: September 07, 2008, 04:43:35 PM »
That was directed to me, I suppose?

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Re: General TWC Discussion
« Reply #1696 on: September 07, 2008, 10:01:08 PM »
Ike is a what, a cat 3 hurricane now? Yeah - TWC is going to be covering it! TWC = The Weather Channel... Ike = Weather... Catch the point? It's their job to be covering this stuff, it's all they do, so when theres a cat 3 hurricane roaming the sea headed for the broadcast area, then yes, again, they will be covering it.

If it was CNN, and they were covering it 24/7 then yes, that would be called over hyping as CNN should be covering other things like news, where as TWC, is nothing but weather.

Come back and say that TWC spends all their time watching the tropics? As both Fay and Gustav were hitting the south, there were storms hitting the N/NE, and TWC was checking in with those storms and giving updates as nessisary as well as the tropics information.

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Re: General TWC Discussion
« Reply #1697 on: September 07, 2008, 10:31:12 PM »
Well said, Kyle.

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Re: General TWC Discussion
« Reply #1698 on: September 08, 2008, 07:02:02 PM »
Looks like Carl Parker will be going Beyond The Forecast tonight, filling in for Mike Bettes.
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Re: General TWC Discussion
« Reply #1699 on: September 08, 2008, 09:47:06 PM »
Hmm, is it me or are they airing TWC promos after the local ad insets instead of before now?

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Re: General TWC Discussion
« Reply #1700 on: September 10, 2008, 04:44:37 PM »
They just played the Northeast opener on Weather Center. Pretty sweet.
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Re: General TWC Discussion
« Reply #1701 on: September 10, 2008, 07:31:49 PM »
Right now, on the inset satellite for Ike, they're showing a titlebar on the satellite picture. Don't think that's supposed to be there; you can hardly even read it.  :doh2:
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Re: General TWC Discussion
« Reply #1702 on: September 10, 2008, 08:03:08 PM »
They just played the Northeast opener on Weather Center. Pretty sweet.
Really, on master controlled WC? Never seen them do that before. Did you get a clip or screenshot of this?

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Re: General TWC Discussion
« Reply #1703 on: September 11, 2008, 06:22:35 PM »
No, I didn't. :(

Master Controlled WC is pretty much the same as Full Controlled WC nowadays.
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Re: General TWC Discussion
« Reply #1704 on: September 11, 2008, 07:00:45 PM »
Storm Alert #2 of the season!

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Re: General TWC Discussion
« Reply #1705 on: September 11, 2008, 07:09:29 PM »
Looks like Carl Parker is back in studio taking care of business.  :biggrin:
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Re: General TWC Discussion
« Reply #1706 on: September 11, 2008, 08:15:06 PM »
Yes, yes.  :yes:

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Re: General TWC Discussion
« Reply #1707 on: September 11, 2008, 09:23:41 PM »
Heres the First Storm Alert open for Ike:


(Its Different than any open yet)

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Re: General TWC Discussion
« Reply #1708 on: September 11, 2008, 09:27:55 PM »
The end of it was poorly edited; they need to fix that...
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Re: General TWC Discussion
« Reply #1709 on: September 11, 2008, 11:57:30 PM »
Sharon Resultan and Adam Berg are up next.

Yeah, let's dive right in and do that, gang!

edit: If they're going to go live all night, I wonder who will step in at 2 AM ET and do updates from there on?
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