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When did you start watching The Weather Channel?

1982
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1983
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1984
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1985
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1986
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1987
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1988
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1989
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1990
2 (5.1%)
1991
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1992
1 (2.6%)
1993
1 (2.6%)
1994
2 (5.1%)
1995
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1996
3 (7.7%)
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3 (7.7%)
1999
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4 (10.3%)
2004
3 (7.7%)
2005
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Offline Eric

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When did you start watching The Weather Channel?
« on: July 20, 2010, 08:38:26 PM »
So... when?

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Re: When did you start watching The Weather Channel?
« Reply #1 on: July 20, 2010, 08:47:01 PM »
2004 was the year i first remember anything about TWC
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Re: When did you start watching The Weather Channel?
« Reply #2 on: July 20, 2010, 08:50:48 PM »
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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Re: When did you start watching The Weather Channel?
« Reply #3 on: July 20, 2010, 08:52:18 PM »
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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Re: When did you start watching The Weather Channel?
« Reply #4 on: July 20, 2010, 08:54:39 PM »
Wow... I'm feeling old.  :dunno:

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Re: When did you start watching The Weather Channel?
« Reply #5 on: July 20, 2010, 10:17:05 PM »
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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Re: When did you start watching The Weather Channel?
« Reply #6 on: July 20, 2010, 10:17:22 PM »
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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Re: When did you start watching The Weather Channel?
« Reply #7 on: July 20, 2010, 10:22:50 PM »
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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Re: When did you start watching The Weather Channel?
« Reply #8 on: July 20, 2010, 10:58:15 PM »
November 15th, 1993

1st ever twc song i heard

TWC Local Forecast M Flavor 1993
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Re: When did you start watching The Weather Channel?
« Reply #9 on: July 20, 2010, 11:44:51 PM »
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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Re: When did you start watching The Weather Channel?
« Reply #10 on: July 21, 2010, 10:23:22 AM »
November 15th, 1993

1st ever twc song i heard

TWC Local Forecast M Flavor 1993

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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Re: When did you start watching The Weather Channel?
« Reply #11 on: July 21, 2010, 02:50:30 PM »
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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Re: When did you start watching The Weather Channel?
« Reply #12 on: July 21, 2010, 03:15:03 PM »
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!

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Re: When did you start watching The Weather Channel?
« Reply #13 on: July 21, 2010, 03:16:07 PM »
Approximately 1995.
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Re: When did you start watching The Weather Channel?
« Reply #14 on: July 21, 2010, 05:04:04 PM »
1998 here, when I started to hear the countless smooth jazz. :yes: