General TWC Discussion

[boyercam]

Yea, 2050 aint too long 
But seriously is that going to be their new logo. I'm not a huge fan of it to be fair...

[mightynine]

So a logo tweak is soon, huh? Speaking of tweaks, noticed that WCL is no longer using a "plain" background when doing a full screen two-headed shot.

[weatherfan_2013]

Really like this version of the TWC logo

That is a sign of things to come, but that's about all I can say.  I like it too.

It sounds like you can't give details which is fine, I don't want you in trouble.  However can you at least tell us how close we are to that logo?

Well, I can't give specifics but you won't have to wait TOO long.

I think those graphics look a lot better than they do now. @SamRichardson92 Hopefully I'm not asking too much but will the next relaunch (most likely November?) include more appealing graphics. Like, is there a chance that terrain on maps could return and graphics have a more shinier appeal to it, like in the WCL Logo background in the picture that @gt1racerlHDl put? Don't tell me what there going to do, just is there a considerable chance? Hopefully that's not too much.

[gt1racerlHDl]

Ricky Bell is back!

Ricky Bell's special Chicago FAA update 9/26/14

[Adrian]

http://www.mediabistro.com/tvnewser/layoffs-at-the-weather-channel_b240861

"Many as 40 staffers were cut at Atlanta-based Weather Channel today."

[Localonthe8s]

http://www.mediabistro.com/tvnewser/layoffs-at-the-weather-channel_b240861

"Many as 40 staffers were cut at Atlanta-based Weather Channel today."

IIRC, two years ago TWC had a round of layoffs around this time as well, laying off OCMs like Adam Berg and Heather Tesch

[toxictwister00]

Hmm, kinda surprised to see TWC doing coverage of the severe weather tonight. I guess I can assume this will be continuous the entire night...

[IceManNYR]

During the 2pm ET hour they were promoting all day and night coverage.

At 12am ET they are still live but they are using the long form format of full screen video and no weather info at the bottom of the national HD feed during commercials.

[mightynine]

While it's nice to have full screen TWC for the first time in forever, it looks quite bad on HD because the long-form local info is right on top on the WCL logo and the L3s.

SD doesn't have that issue, obviously.

Back to long-form at 1amE/12amC (at least in New Orleans).

[Adrian]

I just noticed that weather.com just recently updated the bios of their personalities:

http://www.weather.com/tv/tvshows/personalities/main

I noticed that Danielle Banks, Dave Schwartz and Kyla Grogan are still missing from that page.

[IceManNYR]

Odd they would update the bio photos and not have all of them ready.
I also don't get why some are looking at the camera and some are not.
They all should be facing the camera.

Danielle mentioned in a FB post she was basically doing radio and weather.com forecasts and would not be on TV much.

[gt1racerlHDl]

Mike Bettes doesn't look to happy.

[jrhtwc]

Any more news on the relaunch?

[SamRichardson92]

Any more news on the relaunch?

Not that I can say publicly, but stay tuned.  Relaunch is a strong word.

[jrhtwc]

Any more news on the relaunch?

Not that I can say publicly, but stay tuned.  Relaunch is a strong word.

I thought we were using that word last week when we were discussing this last week in the LF thread. I'm wondering more about the timeframe. Still middle of Oct?