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Offline Mike M

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Re: General TWC Discussion
« Reply #8595 on: February 20, 2013, 10:48:00 PM »
TWC is hyping their next winter storm by keeping the scroll on during long form.

It seems they rushed to do this as the background graphic appears to show the art and text safety area marks.
Also it makes no sense to put the video in a smaller window if they are not going to put the LDL on screen all the time.
Keep the video full size and have the scroll at the bottom.
If the storm is going to be this bad do live coverage and take this stupid episode Ice Berg Hunters off.
Hey, at least it isn't red :D

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Re: General TWC Discussion
« Reply #8596 on: February 21, 2013, 09:08:03 AM »
Hey, at least it isn't red :D

Oh, too bad!  :happy:  This is the difference between a blizzard and an ordinary winter storm.  Q is considered the latter of the two.  So, this means the long form stays on the air without much in the way of additional coverage.  I've always held that severe weather, though disastrous and inconvenient, makes TWC so much more watchable.

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Re: General TWC Discussion
« Reply #8597 on: February 21, 2013, 10:59:54 AM »
"weather.com" returns to the logo.

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Re: General TWC Discussion
« Reply #8598 on: February 21, 2013, 11:32:23 AM »
"weather.com" returns to the logo.

Are you sure about that?  :unsure:  The text is still absent on my STAR.
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Re: General TWC Discussion
« Reply #8599 on: February 21, 2013, 11:50:34 AM »
Are you sure about that?  :unsure:  The text is still absent on my STAR.
Same here, on both the IS and IS2.

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Re: General TWC Discussion
« Reply #8600 on: February 21, 2013, 02:23:23 PM »
No Weather.com on the SD feed logo from the IS or the national HD feed LDL logo on FiOS.

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Re: General TWC Discussion
« Reply #8601 on: February 21, 2013, 04:08:40 PM »
"weather.com" returns to the logo.

Maybe your Star got lucky  :P

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Re: General TWC Discussion
« Reply #8602 on: February 22, 2013, 04:36:18 AM »
The Norfolk IS2 has the text, but the SD doesn't, and over the water in Newport News, both feeds don't have the text. Awfully strange.  :dunno:

Maybe Martin can back me up on this? I didn't check the SD feed in Norfolk.

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Re: General TWC Discussion
« Reply #8603 on: February 22, 2013, 11:47:07 PM »
The 7 Day Forecast never covers 7 Days. Why can't they just call it the weekly forecast?

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Re: General TWC Discussion
« Reply #8604 on: February 24, 2013, 06:39:48 AM »
The 7 Day Forecast never covers 7 Days. Why can't they just call it the weekly forecast?
There have been times, although not as often as I would like, where they have made it through the 7 days in the forecast.....

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Re: General TWC Discussion
« Reply #8605 on: February 27, 2013, 05:27:09 PM »
TWC is still using the old format for the Weekend Forecast.

Odd they changed the 7 Day Forecast and not the Weekend Forecast.
I'm still a fan of the old Weekend Forecast graphics over the new 7 Day version.
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Re: General TWC Discussion
« Reply #8606 on: February 27, 2013, 05:54:32 PM »
Is it just me or does it seem like TWC is trying to have IMAX graphics?

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Re: General TWC Discussion
« Reply #8607 on: February 27, 2013, 08:13:22 PM »
By the looks of it, they want you to feel like it's a red carpet event with spot lights and famous people getting awards.  :rofl2:

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Re: General TWC Discussion
« Reply #8608 on: February 28, 2013, 12:15:31 AM »
Graphically speaking, both make me cringe.  :footinmouth: However, the former style is the lesser of two evils. Of course, it's going to disappear though, eventually.  :rolleyes:

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Re: General TWC Discussion
« Reply #8609 on: March 01, 2013, 10:47:29 AM »
It's getting to the point that the extended forecast on the LF is the only way viewers will really be able to read and understand what's happening in that time period.  The extended forecast maps used to be really good years ago, but now they're getting really flashy and hard to see what's being depicted.