In case any one is wondering what an IntelliStar looks like with absolutely no data, today's your lucky day. 
It would be nice if an Intellistar could simply not cue for a local forecast and show the national broadcast instead if it has absolutely no information to show.
At least an Intellistar still looks "pretty" with no data. I remember the days when the WeatherStar 4000 or, even worse, the WeatherStar III had no data. Nothing's worse than looking at three minutes (remember when local forecasts used to take longer than the blink of an eye?) of a blue screen saying "No report" and such.
Well, at least your Intellistar wasn't 100% without information... it
did have a radar/satellite frame to show in the LDL.
Random memory, speaking of the WeatherStar III. We were under a tornado watch, so the brown screen appeared with the scrolling warning. In the middle of its second repeat, a tornado warning was issued, but instead of the red screen completely replacing the brown screen, the red began right at the first line of the warning, scrolling up along with the text and replacing the brown. When the warning had finished after a couple of repeats, the red ended at the last line, scrolled up, and we saw the brown again appearing from underneath the red, and that stayed on for one more repeat of the watch before returning to the national broadcast. This would have been in the summer of 1991 or 1992 at the
absolute latest, and was the only time I ever saw such an "effect" on the WeatherStar III. Never saw it on the WeatherStar 4000 when it also scrolled the red warnings before putting them on the LDL line.
