New Product Playlists (flavors) being tested

[Tyler]

For the past week, my STAR has had new product playlists (the internal name used for what we TWC fans call "flavors") being tested on it. It's not been determined yet whether these changes are final, and a national roll out will occur or not. One of two things may or may not happen tomorrow (Monday) - the playlists will be tested on certain STARs, or they will do a national test. It's really a wait-and-see kind of thing. The biggest changes are outlined below:

-The CC screen no longer starts off each LF. The :08/:38 local starts with the local ob screens.
-When the wx bulletin screen is active, it is the very first screen. Also, this prevents the CC screen from showing during the :18/:48 LF, where the metro CC and regional CC screens are used instead.
-Seeing more of the getaway, air quality, and almanac screens on a regular basis.


Ready... set... discuss!

[TWCToday]

Be interesting to see who gets this tomorrow. Im not a fan of seeing less of the CC screen 

[Mike M]

Is the CC screen going to show at a different time during the :08/:38, or is it not going to display at all during that forecast? Whether it shows or not, at least we've got the LDL, but the drawback is we don't have narration for current weather data, and there also isn't any current data when there's a weather advisory/warning.

I know the FiOS IntelliStar for Philadelphia starts out with the local obs in one of the flavors. It also currently doesn't show regional maps at all, last I checked.

[Tyler]

Is the CC screen going to show at a different time during the :08/:38, or is it not going to display at all during that forecast?

It doesn't show at all.

[toxictwister00]

For the past week, my STAR has had new product playlists (the internal name used for what we TWC fans call "flavors") being tested on it. It's not been determined yet whether these changes are final, and a national roll out will occur or not. One of two things may or may not happen tomorrow (Monday) - the playlists will be tested on certain STARs, or they will do a national test. It's really a wait-and-see kind of thing. The biggest changes are outlined below:

-The CC screen no longer starts off each LF. The :08/:38 local starts with the local ob screens.
-When the wx bulletin screen is active, it is the very first screen. Also, this prevents the CC screen from showing during the :18/:48 LF, where the metro CC and regional CC screens are used instead.
-Seeing more of the getaway, air quality, and almanac screens on a regular basis.


Ready... set... discuss!

They have been testing this on the Atlanta IntelliStar since Friday evening right before that Satillite Outage, I have some videos of it, I thought something may have been wrong with my IntelliStar.

Be interesting to see who gets this tomorrow. Im not a fan of seeing less of the CC screen 

I'm not a big fan of that happening either. 

[twcfan68]

I'm not too sure what I think about this at the moment. It'll sure be different. But, as a dedicated fan of The Weather Channel, I'm going to support the change.

[beanboy89]

It will be interesting to see how this plays out. In a way it will be like the old days back when the 3000 and 4000 ruled the airwaves; back when some flavors started with the Latest Hourly Observations or Regional Observations screens.

[Darr'chelle]

Yeah...this is definitely going to be a time warp for some of the longtime fans.

[Gil]

Don't think I'd like seeing less of the CC and more Getaway/Air Quality.

It's like taking away the information that people really care about, and replacing it with info they don't. (Not that I speak for everyone)

It will be interesting to see what happens.

[toxictwister00]

Here's the new flavor for the :18 and :48 Btw I dubbed in the music you hear, I was tired of recording the same songs over and over again.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nqNRyLpVJP4

[lfmusiclover]

It will be interesting to see how this plays out. In a way it will be like the old days back when the 3000 and 4000 ruled the airwaves; back when some flavors started with the Latest Hourly Observations or Regional Observations screens.

I wasn't sure how i felt about this, but when you put it that way it doesn't sound so bad! 

[phw115wvwx]

It's not a nationwide test yet as I see Albany's LF starting with the CC screen at all times this morning.

[LFMusicFan]

I wonder if this means my intellistar will add in the regional maps again.

[beanboy89]

At 9:48 AM ET, I saw a LF that started with the metro CC map.

[gt1racerlHDl]

i just had a 1 min forecast 

I would love to see the 36/48hr forecast earlier in the forecast