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Programming and Graphics / Re: Thank You TWC!!!

« on: May 20, 2013, 09:32:46 PM »

I understand the coverage is the most important and TWC is doing a good job though by now they should have switched to more appropriate instrumental music on the LOT8's.

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Everything Else TWC / Re: General TWC Discussion

« on: May 20, 2013, 04:31:39 PM »

Bryan Norcross has joined Carl Parker at the expert desk. Two mile wide tornado in the OKC area.

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Everything Else TWC / Re: General TWC Discussion

« on: May 19, 2013, 07:40:07 PM »

TWC as of 7:38pm is not broadcasting commercials.
You can watch the tornado hunt video here, http://www.weather.com/tv/tvshows/live-stream
Commercials resumed around 8:38pm.
Though it's the least of their concerns, TWC should have a system in place to replace the LOT8's music with instrumental music only during severe weather coverage.
TWC is ending coverage at 2am ET.

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Local Forecast / Re: Emergency Feed Sightings

« on: May 19, 2013, 01:42:02 AM »

Our system has no IS2 and the emergency feed was just on as the national feed had just the LDL with a black screen after the LOT8's.

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It just came on again in place of the national local forecast.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=296ZarC_M9A

Checked on the SD feed which has the IS it had the local forecast with no music.

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Everything Else TWC / Re: General TWC Discussion

« on: May 19, 2013, 01:21:47 AM »

Kim on FB,  "we will belive tomorrow morning through Monday morning to keep you safe! See you Sunday! Join Jennifer Lopez and me from 7-11pm!"

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Everything Else TWC / Re: General TWC Discussion

« on: May 19, 2013, 12:36:06 AM »

I will say that the team tonight of Warren, Kim, and Carl did a very good job.  I am honestly shocked that they kept Warren and Kim on the entire time and did not switch to a new pair of OCMs a little later on, but maybe because it is the weekend they are short?  Granted, I know there have been times when OCMs have stayed on for quite some time (Paul Goodloe is a good example) but it seems like recently they only keep OCMs on for a couple of hours or so.  I could be wrong.  But perhaps Warren and Kim's dinner break was during the 8 PM hour they went to tape?

The 1am WCL is all live.

Regular shifts when TWC is live all day are usually 4 hours so Kim and Warren could have stayed on 7pm-11pm  and then new OCMs would be on at 11pm.

Today the shifts should be 4:30am-7am, 7am-11am, 11am-3pm,3pm-7pm,7pm-11pm.
If they stay live it's 11pm-3am, 3am-5am.

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Everything Else TWC / Re: General TWC Discussion

« on: May 18, 2013, 10:22:42 PM »

The dual feed has not returned yet.

April 3, 2013
ONLY NATIONAL. LOCAL.COVERAGE.
Clark announced that The Weather Channel network will soon be able to present severe weather coverage in affected markets only, allowing viewers in unaffected markets to remain viewing regularly scheduled programming.
http://press.weather.com/press-releases/weather-channel-announces-2013-14-programming-slate-new-vide/

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Everything Else TWC / Re: General TWC Discussion

« on: May 18, 2013, 09:34:57 PM »

The storm the Tornado Hunt team were on had 3 tornadoes touch down between around 8:25pm and 9pm and TWC stayed on tape. They go live after and are apparently staying live to 11pm.
It really makes you wonder who makes the decision when they go live or stay on tape TV producers or meteorologists?

Being they were at TWC going back to when they were a weather channel in the late 1990's,
I wonder what Kim and Warren were saying to each other while TWC stayed on tape for the 8pm hour.

Carl Parker is doing a very good job at the expert desk.

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Everything Else TWC / Re: General TWC Discussion

« on: May 18, 2013, 09:13:57 PM »

TWC goes live again at 9pm ET long after the tornadoes touched down at 8:28pm ET.

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Everything Else TWC / Re: General TWC Discussion

« on: May 18, 2013, 08:31:22 PM »

KAKE is showing video from their chaser. The KS tornado is on the ground with debris around it.
www.kake.com/livestream
TWC is embarrassing.

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Everything Else TWC / Re: General TWC Discussion

« on: May 18, 2013, 08:15:08 PM »

TWC goes to an old tornado special instead of covering tornadoes at 8pm when their are confirmed tornadoes on the ground in KS. Shame on you TWC!

Live coverage here,
NBC http://www.ksn.com/weather/live-radar-and-storm-coverage/
CBS http://www.kwch.com/weather/alwayson/
ABC http://www.kake.com/weather/now

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Everything Else TWC / Re: General TWC Discussion

« on: May 18, 2013, 01:45:35 AM »

TWC is going to be live all day Sunday.

Jesse Hamilton ‏@JesseJHamilton
A very busy weekend here at The Weather Channel. We're already staying live all day on Sunday for severe weather.

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Local Forecast / Re: May 2013 Playlist

« on: May 16, 2013, 07:20:36 PM »

More music adds.
7:18pm "Blue Sky" Allman Brothers Band
7:48pm  "Weather With You" Crowded House
 

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Everything Else TWC / Re: General TWC Discussion

« on: May 16, 2013, 01:56:37 AM »

Don't get me wrong. I get the point that TWC is not going to be live weather forecasts 24/7 nor should they be.
I'm just saying tonight they made bad programming decisions for Wednesday.
They could at least have done WCL at 1am ET.

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Everything Else TWC / Re: General TWC Discussion

« on: May 16, 2013, 12:04:01 AM »

At the least you have to agree it was a bad idea to not schedule WCL at 7pm, 10pm and 1am and replace it with reruns.

It is still called The Weather Channel right? If there is a tornado outbreak and they don't cover it they might as well change their name.

How could there be no backup plan to go live at 7pm ET or 7:30pm when the tornadoes were spotted in Texas.

It's not just me. Many others on FB were asking why TWC was on tape and not live and some are complaning that they went to tape at 12am.

TWC can't even bother do to WCL at 1am. The network is a joke and I'm not watching.

You can get live video from the NBC Station in Dallas.
http://www.nbcdfw.com/weather/stories/NBC-5-Forecast.html