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Local Forecast / Re: Setting Sun by Nathaniel Valentin Bolensky

« on: January 21, 2022, 07:44:36 PM »

Here's where I found it listed: https://weatherchannel.fandom.com/wiki/July/August_2007_Playlist
Plus there are also 2 posts on here that talk about this song: https://twctodayforums.com/forums/local-forecast/here-is-the-july-2007-playlist/
https://twctodayforums.com/forums/local-forecast/need-playlists-from-2007-and-2008/
Your playlist doesn't even list this song because 32 songs are listed on your playlist for July/August 2007, but there were actually 33 (while 15 Daytime, 10 Primetime, and 10 Overnight would be 35, 2 songs played in both Daytime and Primetime, which would mean there were 33 unique songs). Since I know what the other 9 Overnights from that playlist sound like, I would know what "Setting Sun" was by process of elimination if I heard it. Maybe someday, you could go through your footage from July/August 2007 and see what you could find from the 1-5am et time slot (which was the time slot for Overnight back then), if perhaps, "Setting Sun" is in one of the LFs from then. If you know what the other 9 songs from that Overnight sound like like I do, you'll know "Setting Sun" by process of elimination if you hear it.

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Local Forecast / Setting Sun by Nathaniel Valentin Bolensky

« on: January 21, 2022, 09:07:47 AM »

Is this song from the July/August 2007 Overnight playlist available anywhere under a different name and/or artist? It's one of the songs MrDaniel789 from YouTube is missing from his July/August 2007 playlist clips, and there are no clips from anybody else anywhere with this song, and I'm interested in hearing what it even sounds like.

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TWC Today News / Re: Some changes on the Forum

« on: January 07, 2022, 10:24:15 AM »

Yes, to answer to the above questions, and to reiterate a previous point.. We are working on a plan to design a forum-integrated 'home' page. Two goals that are apart of this are to re-theme the forum, and to include basically a landing page where these previous components of TWCT website would be available.

Are there still plans to re-add the old components of the TWCToday website to the forums? I'm only asking because it's been almost 2 years and no sign of anything has shown up yet.

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Programming and Graphics / Weather Center Live Discontinued

« on: November 13, 2021, 11:22:51 AM »

Some of you may have seen this coming, but after seeing its time gradually diminished out twice in a year in favor of AMHQ/America's Morning Headquarters being expanded twice, Weather Center Live is officially no more. Starting on Monday, Weather Underground is moving to the 12-4pm et time slot and a new show titled Storm Center will take over from 4-8pm et. https://twitter.com/weatherchannel/status/1459252348031750148
https://twitter.com/twcMarkElliot/status/1459160152016310276 https://twitter.com/triplectwc/status/1459270239892484096

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Local Forecast / Re: Pleasant Days by Robert McLaughlin found...

« on: October 01, 2021, 11:38:44 PM »

There were a lot of songs submitted under different names and titles in the late 90s and 2000s. I'm not sure why, but maybe it had something to do with licensing? I just did a quick search, and it appears that Gary and Robert/Bobby are friends on Facebook. So maybe Bobby submitted it on Gary's behalf?

Maybe there was a licensing issue preventing them from using Gary's name so they used Bobby's name who submitted My Heaven to TWC under the title Pleasant Days on Gary's behalf after the latter recorded the song? Maybe it's just like how there were songs Incognito and Soul Café released on CDs submitted to TWC under different titles and under aliases CC Gilmore and Samuel Lincoln for Frank Josephs and Ray Herrmann, respectively. BTW, there did you find the Facebook page suggesting that Gary and Bobby were friends?

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Local Forecast / Re: Pleasant Days by Robert McLaughlin found...

« on: September 28, 2021, 12:45:14 AM »

Has anybody figured out just how exactly this song had the wrong title and artist? It was even listed as being on a Bobby Love album titled Channel Weather II. Could Gary Brown have had some connection with Bobby Love in 1999 and then re-released it under his own name with a different title in 2003 when the album with it called The Key came out?

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Local Forecast / Re: The Popcorn song

« on: August 02, 2021, 05:44:18 PM »

I know this is almost 10 years late, but the artist behind the version TWC played in the 80s is "Billy Mann".

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Local Forecast / Re: Classic LF Questions

« on: August 01, 2021, 07:40:56 PM »

I saw that a couple times. I thought it's pretty interesting, They also did that to the partly cloudy icons too, (If ur also talking about that) (P.S I'm kal el animations)

I was mostly talking about the "Sunny/Clear" icon, but yeah, "Haze" could use the "Cloudy", "Mostly Cloudy", or the "Partly Cloudy" icon, depending on the sky condition, but it seemed that if it was "Fair with Haze", this was just shown as "Fair", until I saw those clips, since I had never seen "Haze" on an XL use the "Sunny/Clear" or the "Fair" icon before that. If I had seen that years ago, it would stand out in my mind, so they may have just shown that as "Fair" later on.

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Local Forecast / Re: Classic LF Questions

« on: July 29, 2021, 09:32:21 AM »

To anybody reading this who had the WeatherSTAR XL from 1999-2004, do you remember ever seeing Haze on the XL CC screen showing the Sunny/Clear icon? There are a few instances of this on famartin1's videos from July 1999, but I don't recall ever seeing that on an XL before (in person or online), I was wondering if this could be narrated as "Under fair skies with haze.", or if this just says "Under hazy skies.". I have, however, seen at least one 4000 video with Hazy on the CC screen showing the Sunny icon, although the LDL shows Fair. I was also wondering if this was later changed to just show as Fair, or if Fair with Haze was such a rare report (I'm assuming that's the observation as the Trenton station was not human operated).

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Local Forecast / Re: YouTube Clips

« on: July 22, 2021, 11:40:43 PM »

It's good to hear from you, Ms. Ricks. I just updated one video I have with your original version of "Simple Pleasures" to include said title and your name, and I contacted a bunch of my friends to suggest they do the same thing for you, hopefully, they'll follow through. Also, is there a chance the original "Simple Pleasures", "Summer Rain", and "Nobody's Fool" would ever show up in full length anywhere?

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Weatherscan Discussion / Re: Weatherscan Topic

« on: June 06, 2021, 09:02:56 AM »

Are there any videos of "Weatherscan" displaying 2 "WEATHER BULLETIN" screens? I keep thinking there was one somewhere awhile back, but I wouldn't have any idea how to find it again, if it still exists.

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General Discussion / Question about the 1998-2006 icons

« on: March 08, 2021, 11:15:51 PM »

Is it possible to access the nighttime icons from the 1998-2006 set, but in the March 2002-December 2006 form as well as the "WINDY" icon with the letters more squiggly rather than straight without getting them from an actual STAR (which would be illegal to distribute)? TWCZach had a weather site way back in the day, and the icons could be accessed (including the aforementioned nighttime icons and the "WINDY" icon), but that's been gone for many years. I'd appreciate any help from anybody on this.

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Local Forecast / Re: Classic LF Questions

« on: March 05, 2021, 06:20:01 PM »

I'm going to bring this topic back to life again, are we 100% sure the XL received the first set of new flavors with the introduction of the "Daypart Forecast" and "The Week Ahead" products in March 2002? Because this clip from Friday, March 29, 2002 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bFVy1oQJ6Lg still shows the old flavors, and I can remember years ago on Yahoo!, seeing a "New York City" XL from Saturday, March 30, 2002 on the "Regional Forecast" map with the LDL on the "HUMIDITY" and "DEW POINT" section, meaning that XL was still running the old flavors. I don't know if the missing date and time on the LFs as well as "Saturday Forecast" suddenly becoming "Friday Forecast" after the transition in is any relation or not, but have we been wrong about the first set of flavor changes coming in March 2002 all these years, or did at least 2 XLs out there miss getting the update right away?

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Local Forecast / Re: Classic LF Questions

« on: October 01, 2020, 04:04:53 PM »

I'm going to bring this little topic of mine back to life. On the IntelliStar, what exactly was regularly enough precipitation for the "Local Radar" to show? For example, on this newly-posted video https://twcclassics.com/watch.php?file=struttin-benoit-freeman, there's barely anything in the area, and the "Local Radar" was shown, but I've seen more precipitation in an area than that (both online and in person) and the "Local Radar" was not shown. I do know that the IS 2s are different in that their "Local Radar" products will only show if there's at least a 20% chance of precipitation within the next hour, regardless if there's actually precipitation in the area or not.

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Local Forecast / Re: Regional Forecast Map - Appeared at 12:48PM 5/18/2020

« on: September 12, 2020, 01:07:25 PM »

Not sure if accidental or not, but I can definitely explain why the fonts on that map are still in Akko. This product was only shown once on a random I2 in 2015 (which I have attached a screenshot of below). The reason this product is in Akko is most likely because TWC did not intend to update this product to have the new Roboto font and was most likely going to sit unused until it made its way to our I2s yesterday.

I wonder who posted that picture? I presume there's no video anywhere, but I have to wonder how long that IS2 showed the map. It says "Tomorrow's Forecast" and the time on the paused DVR shows 1:18p with the program being "Highway Thru Hell", so that had to have been on a weekend, but I keep wondering if it showed that instead of a "TOMORROW" text forecast, or in addition to the 3 text forecasts, or if it even showed "Today", "Tonight", and "Tomorrow" on maps instead of text. I'm guessing this was also a glitch, though it wasn't a nationwide glitch, as I know mine in "Saint Louis" didn't show those maps anytime back then. It makes me wonder if the WATT IS2s have multiple flavors built in to show forecast maps for different periods, but only the one without the maps is supposed to be used, with ones with the maps being accidently used on this one IS2 back in 2015, plus nationwide this past May. There's also a "Now" map built in, but was never used once, not even by accident, at least to my knowledge.