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Everything Else TWC / Re: General TWC Discussion

« on: November 23, 2014, 12:16:57 PM »

Apparently all of TWC experts were off or unavailable so Jen C. who already has a weekday shift had to come in and do segments from The Lab for the 9am-12pm WCL shows.

TWC is doing extended coverage today till 10pm.
Promos are running that say long form programming is on starting at 12pm on Thursday and Friday.
With people traveling on on Friday I find it odd they not doing a regular schedule.

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Everything Else TWC / Re: Updated WCL schedule and OCMs for Weekdays

« on: November 23, 2014, 07:05:54 AM »

More changes are coming to Weather Center Live,


"Meteorologist Kait Parker
Yesterday
Kicking off my first weekend on my new shift at The Weather Channel-- 5-9am Sat/Sun! BIG changes and surprises to come on this show in the coming months...stay tuned. "

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Everything Else TWC / Re: General TWC Discussion

« on: November 19, 2014, 07:30:12 PM »

TWC doing same thing tonight.
Sam and Jim at 6pm.
Kelly and Kim 7pm-10pm.

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Everything Else TWC / Re: General TWC Discussion

« on: November 18, 2014, 02:12:31 PM »

A promo just ran saying TWC would be here all day and all night covering the current and next winter storm.
I'm guessing that means extended coverage tonight.

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Everything Else TWC / Re: General TWC Discussion

« on: November 17, 2014, 03:15:40 AM »

Just noticed something else that must be a part of the latest staffing cuts.
All the video forecasts on Weather.com no longer use OCMs on screen.
Instead the TWC meteorologists are voicing the forecasts.

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Everything Else TWC / Re: Updated WCL schedule and OCMs for Weekdays

« on: November 17, 2014, 12:32:06 AM »

Agree on the OCMs for weekends.
The guide listings are calling 10am-12pm Weather Center Live.

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Everything Else TWC / WCL Changes and new OCM schedules

« on: November 16, 2014, 10:00:47 PM »

TWC is making more changes to the schedule.

The 10am edition of Wake Up With Al is going away in place of WCL and there is new OCM pairing for the new shift.

"Jen Carfagno @JenCarfagno  ·  9 minutes ago
Starting tmrw! Join @TWCChrisWarren & me for a new live show on @weatherchannel 10a-12p eastern/7a-9a"

10am-12pm Jen Carfagno & Chris Warren.
If the other OCM pairs stay the same it should be
12am-3pm Vivian Brown & Jennifer Delgado.
3pm-6pm Alex Wilson &  Dave Schwartz.
6pm-8pm Kelly Cass & Paul Goodloe.

This a much better schedule.
I never understood the point of reairing Wake Up With Al for an hour at 10am ET when most of the weather content was outdated.
Also it was odd having Chris only do one hour of WCL at 7pm ET.

Jen C. mentioned on Twitter she is on M-F so that means someone else is going to take over her 5am-9am weekend shift.

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Everything Else TWC / Re: General TWC Discussion

« on: November 13, 2014, 09:18:34 AM »

Today is the 1 year anniversary since TWC relaunched and I can honestly say that the channel is worse off than it was a year ago due to the following reasons:

*Numerous changes that are unnecessary (The Lab)
*TWC bragging how "Amazing" weather and science is. They spent too many times explaining the science

Imagine being one of the 40 employees cut after TWC having spent all those resources doing a remodel to the expert area that had gotten a remodel a couple of years ago.

If I'm correct they don't even  have a storm specialist in the lab on weekends since the reduction in live programming.

Plus I can't help but think back to the childish mocking of Weather Nation that The Weather Channel did for them not being live and now TWC is only live for 6 hours a day on the weekend.

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Everything Else TWC / Re: General TWC Discussion

« on: November 11, 2014, 01:29:32 AM »

No extended coverage of the winter storm? Checked at 10pm ET and long form was on.
The storm is important enough to name yet not important enough to extend coverage.

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Everything Else TWC / Re: General TWC Discussion

« on: November 10, 2014, 11:23:16 AM »

Stephanie Abrams was not on today though did respond on twitter that she's on vacation.
Just seems odd she was off last week and not on today for the winter storm coverage.

The 9am hour of AMHQ was all weather and they stayed at the desk instead of using that smaller table and chairs.

At 12pm ET TWC is using the small studio4 1C.  Keith says it's just temporary use.

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Everything Else TWC / Re: General TWC Discussion

« on: November 09, 2014, 02:12:21 PM »

Now that TWC has their first named winter storm my guess is we could get extended storm coverage in the evening this week.
They probably want to do as little live coverage as they can on weekends so they can extend coverage on weekdays.

Tom Niziol was in the lab for the 5am-9am WCL.  9am-12pm they did not have anyone there and did not use it.

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Everything Else TWC / Re: General TWC Discussion

« on: November 09, 2014, 12:34:25 PM »

WX Geeks was on then a quick weather update from Kim before going to long form and me changing the channel.

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Everything Else TWC / Re: General TWC Discussion

« on: November 08, 2014, 02:07:47 PM »

The shift prediction was correct. Jen and Alex did 5am-9am.
I wonder what this means for Ray who seemed to only do the 4am-7am WCL on Saturdays??

Weather Geeks is a taped show so I'd expect it to be broadcast as my guess is they already taped segments to be broadcast.

Also noticed there was no one at the expert desk 5am-12m. Why bother having that new expert area if you are not going to staff it on weekends?

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Everything Else TWC / Re: General TWC Discussion

« on: November 08, 2014, 04:09:06 AM »

Wonder what Direct TV has to say about this? I thought one of the reasons DTV and TWC made a deal was the adding of live hours that were taken away. The weekend live schedule is a joke with only 7 hours of weather.

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Programming and Graphics / Re: Wake Up With Al

« on: November 06, 2014, 05:18:57 AM »

Wake Up With Al now starts at 5am ET and there was no WCL at 4am today.