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Re: TWC Lays off Staff
« Reply #195 on: December 04, 2008, 01:55:45 AM »
Oh, and did I mention he was a total loser?  :rofl:

I think so.

If you want to do a tribute to a long-time OCM, you gotta show footage from the classics to the present.

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Re: TWC Lays off Staff
« Reply #196 on: December 04, 2008, 08:18:34 AM »
Oh, and did I mention he was a total loser?  :rofl:

I think so.

If you want to do a tribute to a long-time OCM, you gotta show footage from the classics to the present.

Yep, if what your trying to do is an honest to goodness tribute. God knows he's got plenty of classic footage he could've went through had he wanted to do an actual tribute. But when your just trying to screw the competition because you know they're rubbing your face on the sidewalk, those little niceties are moot. Apparently he thinks that being an ass is going to help him in some way. I'm content to let him think that. Hopefully he'll drive his site right into the ground. It's truly a shame that his power got to his head so much. We'll never be friends, or so much as speak, again. I don't want to be friends with a person like him.

On that note, I too will be doing a tribute. I'll be doing one for each Dave and Cheryl (not Eboni though, she wasn't as much a TWC staple as the other two), and both will be proper tributes, not a weak attempt at screwing Matt.

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Re: TWC Lays off Staff
« Reply #197 on: December 04, 2008, 07:04:49 PM »
As of tonight, Jeff Mielcarz has been moved back into the TWC studios, and he's doing the weather.com video forecasts this evening.
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Re: TWC Lays off Staff
« Reply #198 on: December 04, 2008, 08:18:58 PM »
As of tonight, Jeff Mielcarz has been moved back into the TWC studios, and he's doing the weather.com video forecasts this evening.

Wow, I'm surprised he's still around.  :yes:

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Re: TWC Lays off Staff
« Reply #199 on: December 04, 2008, 08:54:01 PM »
Natalie Allen is also still around; she shot a Forecast Earth Headlines segment this morning that aired tonight on EE.
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Re: TWC Lays off Staff
« Reply #200 on: December 04, 2008, 09:39:37 PM »
Parent company NBCU is laying off 500 of its workers.

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601103&sid=aLg3aqv0SZRE&refer=us

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Re: TWC Lays off Staff
« Reply #201 on: December 04, 2008, 10:15:49 PM »
I heard about this earlier. It will be interesting to see if any familiar names get cut. I heard that this is going to effect both their MSNBC and NBC news operations, amongst other things.

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Re: TWC Lays off Staff
« Reply #202 on: December 05, 2008, 05:30:12 PM »
As of tonight, Jeff Mielcarz has been moved back into the TWC studios, and he's doing the weather.com video forecasts this evening.

Here are the Jeff Mielcarz weather.com videos in case anyone missed them:

http://e.imagehost.org/download/0585/Jeff_Mielcarz_December_4_2008
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Re: TWC Lays off Staff
« Reply #203 on: December 12, 2008, 03:59:06 AM »
I hope NBC doesn't rebrand The Weather Channel.

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Re: TWC Lays off Staff
« Reply #204 on: December 12, 2008, 04:14:26 AM »
I hope NBC doesn't rebrand The Weather Channel.
I *highly* doubt that will happen. The Weather Channel is highly respected name, and has been for over 28 years. We will not be seeing it renamed the NBC Weather Channel or the NBC Weather Plus network or anything of the like. You have nothing to worry about :yes:

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Re: TWC Lays off Staff
« Reply #205 on: December 12, 2008, 07:24:16 AM »
Wow, some people come up with the wackiest things.  :wacko:

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Re: TWC Lays off Staff
« Reply #206 on: December 12, 2008, 09:09:19 AM »
NBC ACQUIRED TWC for the brand equity the name has. Why ruin that built brand equity?

And with Mielcarz back at TWC, I'll make the appropriate changes needed.

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Re: TWC Lays off Staff
« Reply #207 on: December 12, 2008, 06:03:04 PM »
Well, at least its not Rupert Merdock. He happens to opperate the News Corperation, and the News Corp owns Fox. Look what News Corp. did to TV Guide... even Disney ruined both ABC and ESPN.
 
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Re: TWC Lays off Staff
« Reply #208 on: December 16, 2008, 02:15:40 PM »
Wow, yet another Einstein over at the other board is blaming General Electric for the recent changes at TWC.

I can't say it enough: GENERAL ELECTRIC HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH IT.  :rolleyes:

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Re: TWC Lays off Staff
« Reply #209 on: December 16, 2008, 07:58:49 PM »
Well, at least its not Rupert Merdock. He happens to opperate the News Corperation, and the News Corp owns Fox. Look what News Corp. did to TV Guide... even Disney ruined both ABC and ESPN.
 
I hate Disney and News Corp! I also hate Viacom and CBS Corperation too!  :angry:
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