General TWC Discussion

[Zach]

Ryan Goswick on WN again today filling in for Maria.

He was also on PME,

Whatever pairing is on WN these days will always host PME the same day.

[gt1racerlHDl]

Golf Couse Pick Of The Week just aired at 1:43pm EDT with Golf Channel's Holly Sonders

[Zach]

Holy cow, I just saw the Storm Riders LOT8s intro... about time they didnt use the weather.com ones

[WeatherWitness]

So the other night (I think it was on Storm Riders), at :08 past the hour I believe, the little "show-name inset" on the left of the LDL said Local on the 8s with just the LDL showing (no squeezeback). Is the use of just the LDL for the LOT8s on long-form something new now?

[Trevor]

Yes, we think that the Squeezeback has been disabled in lieu of the LDL.

[Tyler]

Holy cow, I just saw the Storm Riders LOT8s intro... about time they didnt use the weather.com ones

I really like the weather.com ones. There's a nice variety of them.

[Eric]

Yes, we think that the Squeezeback has been disabled in lieu of the LDL.

All the wasted money and effort to program the squeezeback... and now they don't use it!

And it's a shame, too.  The squeezeback offered not only current conditions and a look at the forecast for upcoming days, but also the radar and almanac information - very interesting stuff.  Even the lower thirds would give more than just the LDL, but they don't use that anymore, either!

The LDL is what I could call the MINIMUM amount of information, but this is apparently what TWC is relying on for virtually the ONLY source of weather information during longform now.  For the rest of the time, it's just the program with no relationship to the channel we used to know.

[WeatherSTARIII]

Golf Couse Pick Of The Week just aired at 1:43pm EDT with Golf Channel's Holly Sonders

I knew this was coming...
I knew that they were going to feature the Golf Channel on TWC. Seriously, Comcast and NBC both ruined TWC! 
Now, I know that it is still important for golfers to check the weather conditions, its just that I hate corprate takeovers.    (nice photo at least)

[Tyler]

I knew this was coming...
I knew that they were going to feature the Golf Channel on TWC. Seriously, Comcast and NBC both ruined TWC! 
Now, I know that it is still important for golfers to check the weather conditions, its just that I hate corprate takeovers.    (nice photo at least)

Actually, for your information, the Golf Channel and TWC have worked together before, many years ago, during the end of the Live By It era. So, again, you blame NBC, and now Comcast, for something that you have no idea what you're talking about.

[Jake]

I actually don't think the golf segment is a bad idea.

[Zach]

Julie Martin: Here's your local weather and traffic on the 8's.

[TampaMillTWC88]

Yes, we think that the Squeezeback has been disabled in lieu of the LDL.

All the wasted money and effort to program the squeezeback... and now they don't use it!

And it's a shame, too.  The squeezeback offered not only current conditions and a look at the forecast for upcoming days, but also the radar and almanac information - very interesting stuff.  Even the lower thirds would give more than just the LDL, but they don't use that anymore, either!

The LDL is what I could call the MINIMUM amount of information, but this is apparently what TWC is relying on for virtually the ONLY source of weather information during longform now.  For the rest of the time, it's just the program with no relationship to the channel we used to know.

If you're going to increasingly play longform, at least the squeezeback and lower thirds gave actual weather info, and showed doppler radar. The LDL offers next to nothing. 

[gt1racerlHDl]

Danielle Banks deserves to be a permanent OCM on Day Planner.

[yourweathertoday]

I knew this was coming...
I knew that they were going to feature the Golf Channel on TWC. Seriously, Comcast and NBC both ruined TWC! 
Now, I know that it is still important for golfers to check the weather conditions, its just that I hate corprate takeovers.    (nice photo at least)

Actually, for your information, the Golf Channel and TWC have worked together before, many years ago, during the end of the Live By It era. So, again, you blame NBC, and now Comcast, for something that you have no idea what you're talking about.

I remember seeing it years ago on the channel. Of all the segments that could be featured on the channel, this by far makes the most sense.

[IceManNYR]

On the HD feed at 5:43 pm the program video was shrunk to have more room on the bottom.
There was a lower third on the screen giving forecasts by region.
I checked the SD feed and the video was regular 4:3 letterboxed. It had no L3 giving the regional forecasts.
Anyone know why only the HD feed had it?

At 5:48pm was the regular local on the 8's LDL.