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Everything Else TWC / Re: TWC Poll

« on: June 18, 2010, 12:05:30 PM »

On Air/ LF Graphics

Heh, the same reason I gave it a 2! NBC only cares about the advertising and the money, not how much work they put into their graphics.

Its called a business. Please tell me a company that does care. CNN? Fox News?

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Local Forecast / Re: June 2010 Playlist

« on: June 18, 2010, 12:02:22 PM »

:38 is Rendezvous by Eric Marienthal

I rather enjoy this song no matter how many times its played

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General Discussion / Re: The Front Porch

« on: June 18, 2010, 10:53:26 AM »

My experience with computer brands:
Dell: Excellent
Sony: Excellent
HP: Good
Acer: Bad
Asus: Bad

I use a Compaq for one of my servers. You get what you pay for and for 270 bucks I am happy with it. Compaq FTW in 1999!!

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Everything Else TWC / Re: TWC Poll

« on: June 18, 2010, 10:50:17 AM »

I was that insane lunatic who gave it a 7

+
Local Forecast Music
Local Forecast
STAR Technology
On Air/ LF Graphics
On air personalities (the majority anyway)
Hurricane coverage
Staff I know who are really great people

-
Less variety in local forecast music
Loss of OCM personalities
Loss of Landmark as owner
Loss of show personality
WUWA
Longform

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General Discussion / Re: The Front Porch

« on: June 18, 2010, 03:12:42 AM »

Whoo! The 99th Graduating Class of Maury High in Norfolk has graduated Yesterday was awesome.

Congrats!

Thanks!

Finals=done

Congrats!

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General Discussion / Re: Hooray the Lakers win!!!!!

« on: June 18, 2010, 03:00:12 AM »

* Martin throws car at Anistorm

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Local Forecast / Re: June 2010 Playlist

« on: June 18, 2010, 02:40:37 AM »

you know.. its nice to know that i am not the only person tuning to TWC.. even though i want no more Mohr.

  

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Programming and Graphics / Re: TWC to carry Obama's primetime address on the oil spill

« on: June 18, 2010, 02:27:24 AM »

I am sorry if my presents here have been a downer. If a forum about TWC is not the place to talk about both the good and the bad, I will be on my way. 

You are fine! We welcome comments and opinions on TWC but I just ask that other members who have been here a while just keep in mind that a lot of their gripes have already been covered. We all wish TWC would be more weather specific

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Local Forecast / Re: June 2010 Playlist

« on: June 18, 2010, 02:21:01 AM »

I thought so too! I didn't recognize any of the songs from this past playlist

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General Discussion / Re: Oil Slick In The Gulf

« on: June 18, 2010, 12:44:55 AM »

Well from what I have been told, other countries do have an emergency plan of sorts. Foreign nations have an emergency shut off option, where you can have a ship over the well send a signal down to the well and shut it off. The United States does not require that sort of thing.

Thats what the blowout preventer is. Its the failsafe that should automatically shut off or can be manually closed in an incident. Its not clear why it failed here but the fact the oil rig above caught fire and sank may have caused damage to it. Every undersea well in the US and world has this.

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General Discussion / Re: You Tube malfunctions

« on: June 17, 2010, 05:19:24 PM »

Yeah, but how do I clear my browser/private data? That's the question I am asking. Also, this is only happening on my laptop, but not on our big desktop computer.
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Then its clear its a problem with your browser. What browser do you use? Just google how to clear browser for your specific client. I am sure if you let us know which browser it is someone can give instructions if you still need it

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General Discussion / Re: Oil Slick In The Gulf

« on: June 17, 2010, 05:14:30 PM »

Ive been watching the Congressional hearing with BP CEO Hayward. My god I have never in my life seen such complete and utter BS from politicians. Seriously its a complete joke! Stupak is the chair of this particular one. I listened to him not understand the concept of a failsafe mechanism. Its so sad that these are the people running our government. I think Mr. Haywards time should be better spent working with BP to fix this problem rather than listening to the dribble and hot air out of Washington politicians. Seeing our politicians speak with about as much intelligence as a 3rd grader enrages me so much.

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Programming and Graphics / Re: Lightning Rod

« on: June 17, 2010, 04:24:34 PM »

According to Kyle "(3:03:54 AM) ksmithtwc@gmail.com The show is done from NY at NBC"

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OCMs & Personalities / Re: New OCM: Steve MacLaughlin

« on: June 17, 2010, 04:20:30 PM »

In the past few years, TWC has dropped several good meteorologists, such as Dave Schwartz, for one. TWC was probably paying them too much money, so they were laid off. Now, TWC doesn't have to pay new meteorologists as much, so thats a way to pay off the Bob Stokes lawsuit, and set money aside for new technology.

I believe a reorganization (encouraged by NBC) forced TWC to drastically cut costs. OCMs and a lot of behind the scene folks were cut. Its becoming clear they cut their on air staff too low and have to hire new people.

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Programming and Graphics / Re: New HD LDL?

« on: June 17, 2010, 12:32:07 AM »

Actually, it won't. I have learned that the LDA will continue to show (during programming that uses the 33% LDL) even with the HD STAR's 33% LDL (so you will see the left strip of data, not the bottom 5 day forecasts).

Thats got to be about THE DUMBEST thing I have heard of. Does TWC give a crap anymore about the quality of their on air presentation with the ldls? Its bad enough the alert scrolls still go over and our very obvious with the 33% ldl. ~facepalm~