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Everything Else TWC / Re: General TWC Discussion

« on: February 18, 2012, 02:38:25 PM »

TWC is live at 2pm and will be live all evening to covering the storm that is moving to the mid Atlantic plus the storms in the south.

Heather Tesch & Nick Walker came on at 3pm ET for PM Edition.
Carl Parker is at the expert desk.

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Everything Else TWC / Re: General TWC Discussion

« on: February 10, 2012, 03:49:03 PM »

Has this been happening frequently? I'm seeing Paul Goodloe, Chris Warren, Crystal Egger, Adam Berg, and Kim Cunningham ALL IN ONE SHOW. This is the first time I'm seeing 5 OCMs in one show with no experts.

Yes, it's been happening for a few months. One OCM does the Social segment, One OCM does Digital Media Center segment, one OCM does weather news and 2 OCMs do the Radar and forecasts.

WCL started early at 6:30pm ET to cover the snow storm in the north east.
Seems like they might be live all evening.

They have been using this format since around November, 2011.
On November 9th I noticed they had 6 people on WCL.

"« Reply #7564 on: November 09, 2011, 07:35:59 PM »
I think TWC has hit a record for the most OCMs on Weather Center Live.
Tonight at 7pm the have Crystal, Chris, Jim, Kim, Kelly and Paul."

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Everything Else TWC / Re: General TWC Discussion

« on: February 03, 2012, 03:28:48 PM »

I got a response back from TWC saying they would pass along my comments about the dark studio lighting.

TWC has updated the schedule and will be live to at least 2am ET.
http://www.weather.com/tv/schedule/

Noticed on Friday they had good quality live streaming video from one of the TWC photographers who was driving on a snowy Denver highway.

Not sure what they were using to transmit the feed but did not go out when they were going through underpasses.

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Everything Else TWC / Re: General TWC Discussion

« on: January 29, 2012, 05:10:46 PM »

Checking Weekend View the studio lighting is a little brighter but still darker that usual.

What's looking real bad is when they show the OCMs from the video wall they are very dark even if the lighting is normal.
Jeff was had almost no lighting on his face from the DMC all morning.
I would think some type of lighting person would be able to fix that.

The area with the clear podium is still very dark and needs to be fixed.

905

Everything Else TWC / Re: General TWC Discussion

« on: January 27, 2012, 01:06:12 AM »

Weather Center Live went back to the regular format at 1am ET.

906

Everything Else TWC / Re: General TWC Discussion

« on: January 26, 2012, 07:09:58 PM »

This is nothing new with TWC but I don't get why they don't adjust the lighting when it's very dark.
Tonight is the second night the area of the HD studio they are using is very dark.

Just seems odd the lighting is always different. Sometimes the lighting is good then other times it's very dark and they don't seem to adjust the lighting or camera.

Update, they used the HD studio for some of WCL and it's lit very dark tonight.
I hope they fix it for Friday.


The other thing I've noticed since the work on the HD studio started on Wednesday is,
on Weather Center Live they do almost no forecast segments from the green screen.
No 60 second or 7 Day Forecast. 
I wonder if this is just a temporary change in format and when the HD studio is back to normal use they will return.

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Local Forecast / Re: General LF Discussion

« on: January 26, 2012, 12:39:20 PM »

The video window on the SD feed still shows the 4:3 letterboxed video incorrectly.

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Local Forecast / Re: General LF Discussion

« on: January 26, 2012, 11:45:40 AM »

The LDL Squeeze Back has returned.
At 11:38am & 11:48 ET as you try to watch the local forecast a promo for Coast Guard Alaska is playing.
When the promo ends so does the local forecast and we go back to programming full screen.
I don't like it and I hope people complain and they give up on the LDL Squeeze Back except for storm coverage.
At least they are not doing it during actual programming.
This is from the cable HD feed with no IS2 on FiOS. The SD feed has the same format.

LDL

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Everything Else TWC / Re: General TWC Discussion

« on: January 26, 2012, 11:04:28 AM »

We are in day two of not using the HD Studio for Day Planner.
On Wednesday the studio was only used for Your Weather Today.
It was not used much during Weather Center Live except for the area with the small podium and palm trees background.
Anyone know what changes or upgrades they are doing in there?

I've noticed they have added a new line to the end of OCM's show intro,
"Live form The Weather Channel Headquarters in Atlanta, this is Day Planner.

910

Everything Else TWC / Re: General TWC Discussion

« on: January 25, 2012, 10:21:42 PM »

While not using the studio for most of Weather Center Live they instead using a virtual background set from the green screen for one segment.

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Programming and Graphics / Re: Studio Upgrade/Revamp

« on: January 25, 2012, 11:06:32 AM »

They used the Digital Media Center and the old green screen for Day Planner 11am-5pm.

7pm they barely used the studio. There was one segment at the video wall that was ok and two segments from the small table area with very dark lighting.
You can notice in the still low dark the HD studio is compared to the other areas.

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Local Forecast / Re: January/February 2012 Playlist

« on: January 23, 2012, 12:20:25 PM »

I noticed for the 6:58am ET Local on Sunday "Eminence Front" was back.
It went a little longer with more of the beginning lyrics being heard.

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Everything Else TWC / Re: General TWC Discussion

« on: January 23, 2012, 02:57:49 AM »

This might be the longest in a while that TWC has been live for over 24 hours.
I believe they started at 4am Sunday and will be live through at least 5pm Monday.
Alex and Scott are coming on early at 3am ET.

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Everything Else TWC / Re: General TWC Discussion

« on: January 23, 2012, 12:34:24 AM »

11pm to 2am ET is Kelly Cass & Paul Goodloe.

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Everything Else TWC / Re: General TWC Discussion

« on: January 22, 2012, 07:06:06 PM »

7pm-11pm Kim Cunningham & Carl Parker.  Jim Cantore & Dr. Forbes at the expert desk.