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Re: General TWC Discussion
« Reply #4725 on: October 24, 2009, 10:41:53 PM »
So, uh, Todd Santos appears for, uh, two weeks, takes four months off, and, uh, starts showing up a bunch?  What the uh?
Maybe he uh needed the uh money? Or maybe the uh people at TWC were uh stoned when they uh hired him? :bleh:
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Re: General TWC Discussion
« Reply #4726 on: October 24, 2009, 11:53:57 PM »
He's Freelance. They need coverage since they trashed a lot of their OCMs over the past year. He's only brought in when everyone else is unavailable.

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Re: General TWC Discussion
« Reply #4727 on: October 25, 2009, 02:51:58 AM »
Dude, what's with the uhh's?  :bleh: :bleh: :bleh: j/k
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Re: General TWC Discussion
« Reply #4728 on: October 26, 2009, 10:17:18 AM »
It'll be interesting to see who TWC determines looks the most for Kevin, Alex, and Jim. I am sure they will be bombarded by possible look-alikes, especially for Jim.

Oh my goodness, I can't wait until that comes myself!! :)

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Re: General TWC Discussion
« Reply #4729 on: October 26, 2009, 11:00:33 AM »
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Re: General TWC Discussion
« Reply #4730 on: October 26, 2009, 01:57:56 PM »
I've done some big discovering the past few days...

Day Planner package: http://www.iamparagon.com/ (TV > bottom left image)
Paul Boyd: responsible for HD sat local, kickoff forecast, weather warriors, weather top 5, PME, election day graphics, misc. weather graphics):

Andre Campbell: Weekend Now, A&B, PME, and something I've never seen on air, "Whats with this Dr Forbes?" http://andrecampbell.com

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Re: General TWC Discussion
« Reply #4731 on: October 26, 2009, 07:32:34 PM »
I've done some big discovering the past few days...

Day Planner package: http://www.iamparagon.com/ (TV > bottom left image)
Paul Boyd: responsible for HD sat local, kickoff forecast, weather warriors, weather top 5, PME, election day graphics, misc. weather graphics):
Andre Campbell: Weekend Now, A&B, PME, and something I've never seen on air, "Whats with this Dr Forbes?" http://andrecampbell.com
My gut says Andre Campbell did the present Weather Center graphics and such too.

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Re: General TWC Discussion
« Reply #4732 on: October 26, 2009, 08:09:08 PM »
Ok seriously,I watched a minute and a half segment with Todd Santos last night.I was counting the entire time.He said "uhh" 11 times in just a minute and a half! Ugh,seriously,TWC has better OCMs than him :club:
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Re: General TWC Discussion
« Reply #4733 on: October 26, 2009, 08:41:40 PM »
Ok seriously,I watched a minute and a half segment with Todd Santos last night.I was counting the entire time.He said "uhh" 11 times in just a minute and a half! Ugh,seriously,TWC has better OCMs than him :club:
That's really frightening to hear.  They need to give him more speech training lessons.  Hopefully, he can overcome the issues and become a good OCM.

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Re: General TWC Discussion
« Reply #4734 on: October 26, 2009, 10:54:17 PM »
I've done some big discovering the past few days...

Day Planner package: http://www.iamparagon.com/ (TV > bottom left image)



Yeah, are any of you familiar with
this
YouTube video? It also tells that Paragon made the Day Planner graphics package and includes all the openers! :thumbsup:

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Re: General TWC Discussion
« Reply #4735 on: October 27, 2009, 12:04:50 AM »
I'm starting to go into wunderground. I hardly check TWC anymore.
It just looks like TWC isnt too serious about the upcoming nor'easters like in the previous years. Once some wacky story like this pops up they immediately go into non-stop coverage like Storm Alert coverage. Seriously, we don't want this.

I use wunderground.com all the time.  I really started using it when I lived in Arizona.  I could zoom in on the radar, and get a better look at the outflow boundaries from the dust storms, and the direction in which the storms were moving!  It helped me get some (albeit) shaky lightning pictures that I've been trying to get.  And, to be honest with you, I'll use them to track storms here in Florida.  (Although, I downloaded the Weather Toolkit for my laptop, and so far, it's pretty neat!)

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Re: General TWC Discussion
« Reply #4736 on: October 27, 2009, 09:23:46 AM »
Besides the lower third being an obvious mockup (4:3 safe surprisingly, APOCALYPSE! :fire:), did they ever use that bar that says TRACK THAT STORM? Ever? I've never seen one on air, but apparently one exists....

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Re: General TWC Discussion
« Reply #4737 on: October 27, 2009, 10:59:50 AM »
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Re: General TWC Discussion
« Reply #4738 on: October 27, 2009, 01:26:11 PM »
Besides the lower third being an obvious mockup (4:3 safe surprisingly, APOCALYPSE! :fire:), did they ever use that bar that says TRACK THAT STORM? Ever? I've never seen one on air, but apparently one exists....

I never seen that one either...but it looks pretty  :happy:
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Re: General TWC Discussion
« Reply #4739 on: October 27, 2009, 02:58:17 PM »
Besides the lower third being an obvious mockup (4:3 safe surprisingly, APOCALYPSE! :fire:), did they ever use that bar that says TRACK THAT STORM? Ever? I've never seen one on air, but apparently one exists....
I never seen that one either...but it looks pretty  :happy:
I've never seen "Track That Storm" on any title bar that I can remember, but it's one that I think should be used more often. :yes: