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TWC and your Cable Company / Re: DirecTV Dropping TWC

« on: January 14, 2014, 12:32:32 AM »

Again the channel that is on tape 2pm-4:30am weekends and 8pm to 4am Weekdays is classless in bashing WeatherNation for being on tape.
Good job by DTV not being bullied by The Weather Channel.

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TWC and your Cable Company / Re: DirecTV Dropping TWC

« on: January 13, 2014, 07:04:59 PM »

The DTV countdown clock and DTV scroll are MIA from the 7pm WCL so far.
Just as I posted they are back.

Instead of just having Chris Warren in studio and another OCM only doing a couple of segments they have Chris and Jennifer Lopez in studio.

I guess Jennifer Lopez is still part time or freelance as Danielle Banks said she was told only full time OCMs get bio pages on weather.com.

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TWC and your Cable Company / Re: DirecTV Dropping TWC

« on: January 13, 2014, 05:44:23 PM »

Over the weekend DTV dropping TWC was more important than reality shows yet tonight at 9pm ET a new episode of a show about tow truck drivers is more important than weather and DTV dropping TWC?

TWC started to re use the comments from the "Loyal Viewers" during the preview of the graphics relaunch.
I laugh when they talk about TWC's commitment to weather when the weekend before the relaunch TWC went to the new schedule of longform 2pm to 4:30am on weekends. That's some commitment to weather.

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OCMs & Personalities / Re: Rich Johnson signs short-term contract with KBTX-TV

« on: January 13, 2014, 03:59:59 PM »

Rich Johnson has joined the new Network Weather channel.
http://www.networkweathercompany.com/rich-johnson/

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TWC and your Cable Company / Re: DirecTV Dropping TWC

« on: January 13, 2014, 02:29:55 PM »

Sorry but I have to go into rant mode!

The channel that airs taped programming 2pm-5pm and 8pm-4am Weekdays and 2pm to 4:30am weekends is bashing
Weather Nation for being on tape? That's comical.
Who was not live in May 2013 when tornadoes were confirmed to be on the ground? TWC.

Lets also remember before TWC ended the 1am WCL that show was on live for the blocks at 1am and 1:30am all the other segments at 10, 20, 40 and 50 min after the hour were a rebroadcast of 10pm.

The fact that TWC now has to do segments talking about how they care about weather and stay live when reality shows would be on is comical.
Why do people need to be reminded of your commitment to weather? Because you run to many blocks of non weather related reality shows?

Thanks.

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TWC and your Cable Company / Re: DirecTV Dropping TWC

« on: January 13, 2014, 12:28:03 PM »

Now TWC is turning this into an infomercial about why TWC is so important. They are playing clips from viewers talking about TWC.
Also various off camera meteorologists have been doing interview segments with the OCMs talking about TWC.

It's so funny how a channel that cut back live hours with a relaunch is now crowing about how vital and important they are.
Again, if what TWC does is so important why are reality shows on 8pm to 4am weekdays and 2pm to 4:30 am weekends.

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TWC and your Cable Company / Re: DirecTV Dropping TWC

« on: January 13, 2014, 02:01:39 AM »

I posted this (in two parts) on another forum, but I'm posting it here as well, because this whole thing is just outrageous.

That is a very good summary of the situation.  Because DTV might drop them they are pretending to be a 24/7 Weather Channel.

They can't go from being live from 4:30am Saturday to at least 12am Tuesday then go back to having no live programming 2pm-4am on weekends because it proves this was just a planed stunt.

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TWC and your Cable Company / Re: DirecTV Dropping TWC

« on: January 13, 2014, 01:54:32 AM »

TWC keeps using the phrase "The Weather Channel will no longer be available on Direct TV after January 13th" as if it's 100% a fact that DTV is dropping the channel.
If that's the case why would anyone bother calling DTV to complain since the channel is being dropped?
That wording makes it seem like TWC has stopped negotiating with Direct TV.

As of the 3am ET WCL they are now showing old reports of storm coverage to almost brag that hey! we were there covering the storms! Very tacky.

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TWC and your Cable Company / Re: DirecTV Dropping TWC

« on: January 12, 2014, 08:13:10 PM »

This had to be pre planned for when they figured out a deal was not close with DTV.

You are so right about TWC not airing any promos about their reality shows and replacing them with promos
about why TWC is important. That had to be part of the plan.

This is what makes me laugh, they did not care when people complained about the having no live shows after 2pm on weekends and now they are only doing it as a publicity stunt.
It's an insult to the people who watch TWC for the live weather shows.

Maybe as part of the deal with DTV they agree that TWC restores some the live hours they took away.
At least bring back the 4pm and 7pm weekend hours.

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OCMs & Personalities / Re: Ryan Goswick

« on: January 12, 2014, 08:05:27 PM »

 Ryan Goswick is on tonight with Nick so he is still  one of the part time OCMs.

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TWC and your Cable Company / Re: DirecTV Dropping TWC

« on: January 12, 2014, 02:06:40 PM »

TWC is live all day so they can continue complain that DTV might drop them on 13th.
It's not even 12am Monday that TWC would be dropped it's 12am on Tuesaday so this is clearly a planned stunt to combat the complaints about TWC airing non weather reality shows 2pm-4am on weekends.

If TWC really cares about it's audience the 5pm 7pm and 1am editions of WCL would return to the schedule next weekend.

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TWC and your Cable Company / Re: DirecTV Dropping TWC

« on: January 12, 2014, 03:01:46 AM »

TWC is staying live through the overnight.

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TWC and your Cable Company / Re: DirecTV Dropping TWC

« on: January 12, 2014, 01:40:34 AM »

To take the DTV discussion even further,
if The Weather Channel is a "Critical, life-saving resource in your local community" as the text related to DTV says,
how come I can't get a local forecast on TWC HD on FiOS? If TWC is that important would they not want to make sure every cable system can provide a local forecast in HD and SD.

There has also been times when my local area has severe weather while TWC is airing non weather related reality shows.

While I do tune into TWC for their live shows and storm coverage, TWC is over selling the value of their channel.

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TWC and your Cable Company / Re: DirecTV Dropping TWC

« on: January 12, 2014, 12:37:40 AM »

As if the countdown clock on the top right, the scroll on the LDL and the notice on the top right of the HD wing are not enough, TWC is now spamming the screen during taped reports with a scroll above the lower thirds about DTV dropping TWC.

The more they do this the more foolish TWC becomes.

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TWC and your Cable Company / Re: DirecTV Dropping TWC

« on: January 12, 2014, 12:18:57 AM »

There's no way this was not planned in advance. The OCMs had to have time to be ready to be on air on a day they would normally be off.
I could understand staying live in the afternoon. There is no reason for them to be live 11pm-3am except to keep telling people that DTV is going drop TWC.

They are not even calling it storm coverage because there are no active storms to cover.
I'll bet they do the same thing Sunday so they are live to 12am Monday.

Amazing it takes the possibility of DTV dropping them for them to do what the should be doing, providing live weather shows after 2pm on weekends.