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Re: General TWC Discussion
« Reply #7830 on: March 11, 2012, 10:03:40 AM »
Does NBC save money by hiring only amateurs and interns to do the job?  Or are "qualified" technicians just that incompetent?  Or is the studio inadequate and the producers just don't care?

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Re: General TWC Discussion
« Reply #7831 on: March 11, 2012, 11:17:11 AM »
They just showed the Travel Forecast screen with the old music.
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Re: General TWC Discussion
« Reply #7832 on: March 11, 2012, 01:23:35 PM »
It has been 2 years now since TWC had changes in its graphics including the launch of a new icon set, the new national LDL, new IS LDL, and the discontinuation of the XL's LDL.
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Re: General TWC Discussion
« Reply #7833 on: March 11, 2012, 04:37:27 PM »
Lighting was adjusted today and keeps changing every show.
Here's 9am, 12pm and 4pm.

Why the lighting keeps changing every hour only TWC can tell us.
Again I don't know why but the entire HD studio has been under lit since around the time they started to take down the video wall.

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« Last Edit: March 11, 2012, 04:45:57 PM by IceManNYR »

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Re: General TWC Discussion
« Reply #7834 on: March 14, 2012, 07:04:15 PM »
Six people for WCL tonight.

Chris and Crystal main OCM's. Jim at the expert desk.
Kelly, Kim and Paul reporting.

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Re: General TWC Discussion
« Reply #7835 on: March 18, 2012, 10:46:27 PM »
Kim Cunningham about TWC Social, earlier tonight: "The Weather Channel now has a one-of-a-kind partnership with Twitter, it's called The Weather Channel Social..."

Yeah... we know that already for the thousandth time  :rolleyes:
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Re: General TWC Discussion
« Reply #7836 on: March 18, 2012, 10:49:46 PM »
It could be a possibility that Twitter is paying TWC to say that, thus its advertising. ;)
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Re: General TWC Discussion
« Reply #7837 on: March 18, 2012, 11:24:09 PM »
If that is the case, I will gladly pay Twitter to tell them to stop saying that. :P


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Re: General TWC Discussion
« Reply #7838 on: March 18, 2012, 11:48:17 PM »
If that is the case, I will gladly pay Twitter to tell them to stop saying that. :P

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Re: General TWC Discussion
« Reply #7839 on: March 19, 2012, 09:03:22 PM »
As of tonight in the 8pm hour, the Weather Now updates at 10 and 40 after the hour are gone.
Instead they are using the LDL Squeeze back and doing the Weather Now update then at 38 minuets after.
In the 9pm hour they did it at 18 minuets.
I need to check if they are doing it any other times in the hour.
It's bad enough they only do two full local forecasts an hour during taped programming and now they are using the LDL Squeeze back instead.


« Last Edit: March 19, 2012, 09:21:38 PM by IceManNYR »

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Re: General TWC Discussion
« Reply #7840 on: March 19, 2012, 09:10:46 PM »
It's bad enough they only do two full local forecasts an hour during taped programming
Sorry to burst in, but havent they always? :unsure:
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Re: General TWC Discussion
« Reply #7841 on: March 19, 2012, 09:16:22 PM »
As of tonight in the 8pm hour, the Weather Now updates at 10 and 40 after the hour are gone.
Instead they are using the LDL Squeeze back and doing the Weather Now update then at 38.
I need to check if they are doing it at 58 after.
It's bad enough they only do two full local forecasts an hour during taped programming and now they are using the LDL Squeeze back.

The Squeezeback is better used for long-form like this. They shouldn't just show the LDL like they did before since there is no radar info. But they should just show LFs at 8s.

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Re: General TWC Discussion
« Reply #7842 on: March 19, 2012, 09:22:57 PM »
It's bad enough they only do two full local forecasts an hour during taped programming
Sorry to burst in, but havent they always? :unsure:

True but they were the regular local forecasts not the LDL Squeeze back they are using tonight.

They went to taped programming at 8pm but have decided to go live at 9:30pm to cover the storms in the south.
Chris said Ice Pilots will be on at 12:30am ET so they are not planning to be live then.
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Re: General TWC Discussion
« Reply #7843 on: March 21, 2012, 05:59:32 AM »
Okay, this is very contradicting.. but why is a FOX show being advertised during LOT8s on TWC, an NBC network?! :wacko:
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Re: General TWC Discussion
« Reply #7844 on: March 21, 2012, 07:47:33 AM »
Okay, this is very contradicting.. but why is a FOX show being advertised during LOT8s on TWC, an NBC network?! :wacko:
What show?  :unsure: