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Other => General Discussion => Topic started by: Eric on July 20, 2010, 08:38:26 PM
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So... when?
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2004 was the year i first remember anything about TWC
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January 14, 2003. This is the exact date when I first tuned in to TWC. I remember Carl Parker and Kristina Abernathy were doing the 6-8PM broadcast. They were awesome together. It was also the day that the weather became my interest.
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According to my parents, it was when I was 5 years old; used to watch it with my grandpad. I remember watching TWC from 1998 on.
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Wow... I'm feeling old. :dunno:
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Around 1996 or 97 was when I first discovered TWC, but ~early 1999 was when I started watching TWC on a regular basis, so I can only remember happenings as far back as around that timeframe. Boy do I miss those awesome XL and Weather Center graphics with the isobars. :(
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Early 1998, that's when I remembered Chris Camozzi's music while watching our 4000. I watched it sporadically though as it wasn't until late 1999 when I started watching TWC on a regular basis.
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Early 1998, that's when I remembered Chris Camozzi's music while watching our 4000. I watched it sporadically though as it wasn't until late 1999 when I started watching TWC on a regular basis.
One of the first songs I can remember hearing was Sea Breeze by Eddie Reasoner from 2Q 1999. Other songs I vividly remember from 1999 include Just Groovin and Fair Weather from the 3rd quarter, and Pleasant Days and Too Hot to Think from the 4th quarter. We had our XL by April or May 1999, but the shore still had the 4000 until at least the end of the summer that year as I remember seeing it in July.
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November 15th, 1993
1st ever twc song i heard
TWC Local Forecast M Flavor 1993 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s2uqdODa8io#)
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I first remember it in 1995. It could be earlier, though, perhaps 1994. I remember riding around with my little bike in the patio with Kenny G's All in One Night in my head.
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November 15th, 1993
1st ever twc song i heard
TWC Local Forecast M Flavor 1993 ([url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s2uqdODa8io#[/url])
Wow, that's amazing that someone posted the first LF you saw. :o
For me, it was February 26, 1992 at 10:26am. The first song I heard was "Fiesta Sol" by Max Groove.
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Couldn't remember the exact date, but it was sometime in 1991. Mostly discovered it by accident; although urban legend is that it was pure luck, as on the cable lineup (TCI...remember them?) TWC was channel 28 and Nickelodeon channel 29.
So I've watched TWC for about 20 years! :smoke2:
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Well, I started watching during Hurricane Katrina when it was affecting Memphis. I was watching something on Nick, and then my dad turned it to TWC to get an update. I told him "This weather mess is boring! Let me watch Nickelodeon!" So he walked in the bedroom to watch TWC there. Truth is, as soon as he left the room, I turned it back to TWC. The LOT8's was on.
So, obviously, with TWC being in Storm Alert, there were multiple clips of LF's on YouTube. This isn't my first LF, but it was recorded on the day that I began watching. Oddly enough, the person that recorded this was living in Memphis at the time!
Weather Channel Local Forecast 2005 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0iMK0C8NFMY#)
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Approximately 1995.
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1998 here, when I started to hear the countless smooth jazz. :yes:
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It was 1990 for me. I still remember when TWC covered Hurricane Andrew.
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It was 1990 for me. I still remember when TWC covered Hurricane Andrew.
I remember Mike Seidel trying to speak Spanish in a special bulletin.
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Early 2000, when I was only 3! ;)
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It was 1990 for me. I still remember when TWC covered Hurricane Andrew.
While I obviously don't remember Andrew, I remember seeing promotions about a special TWC put together for Andrew's 10th anniversary. I never saw the special though.
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I would say I really started watching TWC out of interest in 1999 when I was 7. I remember back in those days I would sit in my Grandpa's lap and watch the local warnings on our local news channel, too. Good times. :)
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I think I started watching The Weather Channel in 1999, maybe earlier than that. I definitely remember watching TWC from 99. I don't quite remember the 4000 from my local head-end, but I do remember the XL v. 1 from 1999.
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i watched it very infrequently from 2000-2008, but in January of 2009 I started watching it almost daily. :biggrin:
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I started watching TWC in 2001. At that time we had the satellite version until sometime in 2003-2004ish we got the XL.
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June 3, 1991 was first day i watched TWC. I watched TWC for an hour at first when there was this show on Nickelodeon i didnt care for so id switch to TWC. Then I started hearing song after song on the LF 's and I got instantly hooked, not hard since it pertains to an subject (Geography) I have always loved
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It's very interesting to read about how all of you started watching The Weather Channel. However, all of you are also making me feel very old... :rofl2:
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Apparently in 1982. My babysitter turned it on all the time and she said I used to sit there and watch it. Now I can blame her for my weather obsession. At least I know why now.
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Apparently in 1982. My babysitter turned it on all the time and she said I used to sit there and watch it. Now I can blame her for my weather obsession. At least I know why now.
Well... you beat me!! Actually, I'm about a month or so younger than The Weather Channel. B)
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Couldn't remember the exact date, but it was sometime in 1991. Mostly discovered it by accident; although urban legend is that it was pure luck, as on the cable lineup (TCI...remember them?) TWC was channel 28 and Nickelodeon channel 29.
So I've watched TWC for about 20 years! :smoke2:
Wow, you cable system was alot like ours back then too. TCI used to be in our area too. On our lineup, TWC used to be located on channel 36 while Nickelodeon was (and still is) on 35. TWC is now on channel 2 on Comcast in our area. For me, my earliest memory of watching TWC dates back to sometime around 1991 too. I can't remember exactly, but I do sort of remember that one day in 1991, there was severe weather and we were living at our old house at the time. Our old house didn't have a basement and there was a tornado that was close to our town. I remember watching TWC along with our WeatherSTAR 3000. (we didn't get the 4000 until 1993). I've always have been interested in weather as well as computers and that was the perfect mix.
Today, I rarely watch it ever since the 2005 relaunch. I miss the old TWC...
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1985. Cable was installed in my neighborhood, I noticed there was a Weather Channel and I started watching. There were some really nice backgrounds used during the locals in the 1986-1987 general time period (some stationary, others in motion) until they were later discontinued.
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I believe I started watching The Weather Channel since 1990. I remember when I was watching the N flavor.
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1985. Cable was installed in my neighborhood, I noticed there was a Weather Channel and I started watching. There were some really nice backgrounds used during the locals in the 1986-1987 general time period (some stationary, others in motion) until they were later discontinued.
Finally... someone who's been watching longer than I have! :)
As I understand it, the backgrounds were discontinued because many people found it difficult to read the WeatherStar III's text over them. However, I think the backgrounds were also for the benefit of (the few, at the time) satellite viewers or those whose WeatherStar was malfunctioning. Back then, there wasn't the "Travel Cities Forecast" on the national feed, so, without the backgrounds, you just saw a black picture while hearing the local forecast music (and narration!).
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As young as I was I definitely remember first watching around 1999.
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1985. Cable was installed in my neighborhood, I noticed there was a Weather Channel and I started watching. There were some really nice backgrounds used during the locals in the 1986-1987 general time period (some stationary, others in motion) until they were later discontinued.
Finally... someone who's been watching longer than I have! :)
As I understand it, the backgrounds were discontinued because many people found it difficult to read the WeatherStar III's text over them. However, I think the backgrounds were also for the benefit of (the few, at the time) satellite viewers or those whose WeatherStar was malfunctioning. Back then, there wasn't the "Travel Cities Forecast" on the national feed, so, without the backgrounds, you just saw a black picture while hearing the local forecast music (and narration!).
I always woundered what had happened durring the Local Forecasts if the local WeatherSTAR fails back in 1982-85.
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I always woundered what had happened durring the Local Forecasts if the local WeatherSTAR fails back in 1982-85.
It's written somewhere on the "TWC Classics" homepage, but I believe it was around 1987 or 1988 when the earliest version of "Travel Cities Forecast" appeared on the national feed "underneath" the WeatherStar. Back then, it was just a black screen with white text that literally appeared line by line and scrolled up - nothing physically attractive at all, even by WeatherStar III standards. (And it didn't look like it was Star technology that was producing this.) It quickly mellowed out into the WeatherStar 4000-style text version, before converting to the graphics version at the same time the local WeatherStar 4000 text "Travel Cities Forecast" became the graphic "Travel Forecast for..." page.
Off the top of my head, I'm trying to think when this was replaced with specially-produced maps that were broadcast on the national feed. 1995 at the absolute latest, I believe.
Oh, and how about "Tri-State Weather" and "Prime Time Tonight"? I always found myself hoping for a Star failure at :27 and :57 past the hour. And, yes, sometimes it happened! :) Amazing to think that TWC could devote THREE minutes to a local forecast back then!!
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March 2003. Was good for 5 and a half years before NBCU started doing bad changes to it.
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Probably around 1995-1996 but not on a regular basis
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I think the backgrounds were also for the benefit of (the few, at the time) satellite viewers or those whose WeatherStar was malfunctioning. Back then, there wasn't the "Travel Cities Forecast" on the national feed, so, without the backgrounds, you just saw a black picture while hearing the local forecast music (and narration!).
Wow, really? I didn't know that (or maybe I did and just forgot :P).
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I always woundered what had happened durring the Local Forecasts if the local WeatherSTAR fails back in 1982-85.
It's written somewhere on the "TWC Classics" homepage, but I believe it was around 1987 or 1988 when the earliest version of "Travel Cities Forecast" appeared on the national feed "underneath" the WeatherStar. Back then, it was just a black screen with white text that literally appeared line by line and scrolled up - nothing physically attractive at all, even by WeatherStar III standards. (And it didn't look like it was Star technology that was producing this.) It quickly mellowed out into the WeatherStar 4000-style text version, before converting to the graphics version at the same time the local WeatherStar 4000 text "Travel Cities Forecast" became the graphic "Travel Forecast for..." page.
Off the top of my head, I'm trying to think when this was replaced with specially-produced maps that were broadcast on the national feed. 1995 at the absolute latest, I believe.
Oh, and how about "Tri-State Weather" and "Prime Time Tonight"? I always found myself hoping for a Star failure at :27 and :57 past the hour. And, yes, sometimes it happened! :) Amazing to think that TWC could devote THREE minutes to a local forecast back then!!
At the earliest for the satellite version of the looping "Travel Cities Forecast" WeatherSTAR 4000, I beleve it came out some time between August-September 1990 (likely around the same time when the local cable version of the 4000 started displaying the "Travel Cities Forecast" banner on top of the screen around mid-August 1990). I think TWC would continue using the satellite 4000 up until either 1998 or 1999.
As for the early days of the LFs, maybe it was just a plain black screen with only audio playing durring the LFs if there was either no WeatherSTAR I/II hooked up or if it fails to cue its LF.
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At the earliest for the satellite version of the looping "Travel Cities Forecast" WeatherSTAR 4000, I beleve it came out some time between August-September 1990 (likely around the same time when the local cable version of the 4000 started displaying the "Travel Cities Forecast" banner on top of the screen around mid-August 1990). I think TWC would continue using the satellite 4000 up until either 1998 or 1999.
As for the early days of the LFs, maybe it was just a plain black screen with only audio playing durring the LFs if there was either no WeatherSTAR I/II hooked up or if it fails to cue its LF.
I could have sworn the "Travel Cities Forecast" started earlier. In fact, I'm sure of it. Maybe the WeatherStar 4000-style "TCF" started in 1990, but a different format certainly existed before - I've actually seen it. At first I couldn't figure out what it was, but after a while I figured out that the "regular" local forecast wasn't working, so I'm seeing this instead.
As for ending the "TCF" in 1998 or 1999, that's definitely too late. Again, I know this from personal experience. During summer vacation I visited my grandparents, I specifically remember seeing a map-based national broadcast instead of a WeatherStar while in one of their guest rooms. The last time I stayed in that particular guest room was either 1996 or 1997 at the absolute latest.
And I've already said that, before the animated local forecast backgrounds and before the "Travel Cities Forecast," viewers with a malfunctioning WeatherStar or no WeatherStar at all saw only a black screen and heard the local forecast music with narration, since that was broadcast along with the music nationally.
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The TCF scroll (with the large block letters and grayish background) started showing up in my area on the wxStar 3000 as early as 1989 and continued with the upgrade to the 4000 in 1990. I think it was discontinued sometime in 1995.
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It was 2003 when I started watching. Back when we had the XL.
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I do sometimes wonder how people interpret TWC and the changes that take place on a short-term scale without having the bigger picture. For example, I can still see similarities between the IntelliStar and the WeatherStar III, some of which actually seem a little out of date now. For example, the "Current Conditions" screen, in my opinion, is a little superfluous now, since the same information can be presented on the LDL and on local maps. However, in the days of the WeatherStar III, there were no maps, and the line-by-line "Latest Hourly Observations" and "Regional Conditions" were the best that could be done otherwise. But, 25 years later, the legacy continues...