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OCMs & Personalities / New OCM David Neal

« on: October 30, 2013, 10:50:16 PM »

David Neal was just on doing a forecast segment.

His LinkedIn page says,
Contractor and Special Projects Manager
The Weather Channel
March 2013 – Present (8 months) Atlanta, Ga
Working daily with an enormous staff of talented people to try and develop new technologies for keeping people safe during life threatening weather.

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Programming and Graphics / Re: New Graphics coming to TWC

« on: October 30, 2013, 10:30:49 PM »

The TWC bug and text on this clip appear to come from the new graphics package and the TWC logo is no longer blue it's more of a green tint.

http://www.weather.com/video/real-life-haunted-houses-40567

I wonder how these changes are going to effect the OCM's schedules.
As I mentioned in another thread  David Neal is now being used as an OCM. He has been working at TWC off air since March. Jennifer was on this afternoon and Kyla is on Thursday evening so they are still being used for fill-in shifts.

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Programming and Graphics / Re: New Graphics coming to TWC

« on: October 30, 2013, 12:56:09 PM »

While I get that they want to have a prime time that is all taped programming they should at least do a live show at 1am ET for those up late that want a forecast and for those on west coast.

I also don't like no live weather shows 2pm-10pm on weekends if that is going to be the new weekend schedule.
They should at least do a live show at 5pm and or 7pm.

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Programming and Graphics / Re: New Graphics coming to TWC

« on: October 30, 2013, 11:29:03 AM »

TitianTV has some shows renamed and no extra live hours for the launch on the 12th.
The other guides still have the old show names though the schedule is the same.
Tuesday Nov, 12
4am-5:30am Weather Center.
5:30am-7am Wake Up With Al
7am-11am AM Rush
11am-2pm Weather Center
2pm-5pm taped programming
5pm-8pm Weather Center
8pm-4am taped programming

So we are losing WCL at 10pm and 1am weekdays. Most of the 1am show was a replay of 10pm.
It also appears we are losing WCL at 4pm and 7pm on weekeends.

I wonder what this means for OCMs like Kim and Danielle who were on WCL at 10pm and 1am.
Kim said she was not sure on the new schedule and they are still finding out details.

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Programming and Graphics / Re: New Graphics coming to TWC

« on: October 29, 2013, 04:36:52 PM »

The recent posts on the CG Alaska FB page say new episodes Monday at 10pm ET but the cover photo says 9pm ET.
https://scontent-b-lga.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-frc3/1395355_692195120790784_1486649810_n.jpg

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Everything Else TWC / Re: General TWC Discussion

« on: October 29, 2013, 02:40:01 AM »

According to Titan TV TWC is doing a Super Storm Sandy special 5am-2pm.
There's a rebroadcast 5pm-8pm. WCL is back at 10pm.

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Programming and Graphics / Re: New Graphics coming to TWC

« on: October 28, 2013, 07:37:23 PM »

For the people expecting a change in programming, don't.
The fact they just started airing new shows and new seasons of shows that are not about weather tells you that.

Unless there has been a direct quote saying otherwise,
All they are doing is changing to new graphics, having weather information on the screen 24/7, remodeling the studio and renaming some of the shows.

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Programming and Graphics / Re: New Graphics coming to TWC

« on: October 28, 2013, 03:11:22 PM »

Here are the posts from Kim and Maria about the set.

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10153419052745724&set=a.10150116988390724.396799.439592965723&type=1

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=598482953520314&set=a.114755238559757.7263.110572388978042&type=1

I wonder just how much of a change the studio is going to get since a couple years ago they replaced and updated the green screen and video wall?

They started using the other studio, I Believe is 1C,  for Day Planner.
The green screen for that studio needs more lighting.

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Programming and Graphics / Re: New Graphics coming to TWC

« on: October 28, 2013, 07:41:55 AM »

During WUWA the show promos were not running on the bottom left when returning from break. They came back at 7am.
I have not noticed the LDL show promos at the bottom before going to break.
Makes me wonder if the changes are going to happen Friday November 1st.

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Programming and Graphics / Re: New Graphics coming to TWC

« on: October 27, 2013, 11:38:01 AM »

The promo segments they keep doing about Weather All The Time do have new map graphics so I would expect all other graphics to change to.

Coming back from break the show promo graphic is appearing at the top left using the new graphics font instead of appearing at the bottom left of the LDL.

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OCMs & Personalities / Re: New OCM - Michael Smith

« on: October 27, 2013, 10:52:02 AM »

Unless I missed a shift I don't believe Michael has been on TWC in September and August.
In the recent weeks weekday OCM's have been subbing on the weekends when they could have used Michael.

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Everything Else TWC / Re: General TWC Discussion

« on: October 27, 2013, 10:49:37 AM »

Interesting the animated show promos are still running in the LDL area going to break yet they can't get the show logo and mini ads to display on the bottom left.

On the SD feed the show logo and ads are still playing on the bottom left of the LDL.

As of 10:53am they have the logo area back. The timing is still a bit off and going to break at 10:57am the LDL area show promo did not display.

Something else I wanted to note,
in recent weeks with OCM's out in the field reporting, at weather conferences or on vacation, TWC has had to move people around to fill in.

Chris has subbed for Mike on AM Rush.
Julie has been doing First Forecast.

Alex Wilson was on with Jen this AM 7am-11am.
Kim and Nick are on 11am-2pm this weekend.

Last weekend they had Warren and Keith 11am-2pm and Kim and Ryan 7pm and 10pm.

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Programming and Graphics / Re: TWC Greenlights 6 New Series in Time for First Upfront in 5 Years

« on: October 25, 2013, 01:10:43 AM »

Correct. Ice Pilots started on Nat Geo for seasons 1 and 2.
TWC picked up the series in 2012 airing seasons 1 & 2 then the new season  3.
Apparently TWC dropped the show after season 3.

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Everything Else TWC / Re: General TWC Discussion

« on: October 22, 2013, 05:40:55 PM »

GFC was removed from the wall when they updated them for the tropical season in August.

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Programming and Graphics / Re: TWC Greenlights 6 New Series in Time for First Upfront in 5 Years

« on: October 22, 2013, 07:15:04 AM »

Like Ice Pilots it's not even a new show. It's an old NatGeo series.
http://channel.nationalgeographic.com/channel/hell-on-the-highway/episode-guide/