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Everything Else TWC / Re: Blooper Thread

« on: December 24, 2008, 01:46:02 PM »

At about 11:46 MT last night, the Lexus tagging product kind of glitched out. The lines of text were close together, the text was smaller, it was all at the top, and in mixed case (but still in a weight of Interstate).
And at midnight, an L3 read "Chicago, IL Courtsey: WLS".

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Everything Else TWC / Re: General TWC Discussion

« on: December 24, 2008, 01:44:50 PM »

I just saw a weather report on MSNBC and all of the maps and graphics were using the EXACT same titlebars TWC uses and all the graphics all had the TWC logo on the upper left corner of the screen.

BTW, Nick Walker and Kevin Robinson on Day Planner today.

Also, Jim was on the Today show again today.

No, those are different titlebars. What you see on MSNBC is not from a WSI computer, remember. And the Weather Central computer uses Univers, not Helvetica Neue.

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TWC and your Cable Company / Re: Charter Communications Sucks (in Dallas/Ft. Worth anyways)

« on: December 24, 2008, 12:17:26 AM »

Charter operates about a quarter of known XLs...if Charter goes, expect the XLs to follow suit. (Adelphia went the same way.)

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Local Forecast / Re: Help IDing a song

« on: December 22, 2008, 11:35:42 PM »

Nope, it's Ice Fairies. It was on the 1999 playlist as well:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gcmnKJAOR-c

By the way, what OCM is that in the first few seconds?

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TWC Fan Art / Re: The Weather Channel Reimagined

« on: December 22, 2008, 10:05:17 PM »

AccuWeather-inspired products and MyCast at night.

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Everything Else TWC / Re: General TWC Discussion

« on: December 22, 2008, 03:54:40 PM »

Poor Adam Berg was forced to say Snoqualmy Pass I don't know how many times.

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Everything Else TWC / Re: General TWC Discussion

« on: December 22, 2008, 01:17:21 PM »

Ray Ban's retiring and being replaced by an NBCU guy:

http://www.mediabistro.com/tvnewser/nbc/ray_ban_retires_from_twc_as_network_further_integrates_with_nbc_104052.asp?c=rss

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TWC Fan Art / Re: The Weather Channel Reimagined

« on: December 21, 2008, 11:34:16 PM »

Working on making a 4000 background...I need help on the TWC logo typeface, mainly.

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TWC Fan Art / Re: The Weather Channel Reimagined

« on: December 21, 2008, 07:18:58 PM »

The MyCast CC screen is tweaked...

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Everything Else TWC / Re: General TWC Discussion

« on: December 21, 2008, 03:17:13 PM »

Fill-in mania. Why is TWC's OCM lineup so...unstable? (like a cold front in the summer)

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Everything Else TWC / Re: General TWC Discussion

« on: December 21, 2008, 03:01:47 PM »

Rich and Kristina on Weekend WC. Who is Rich filling in for?

And there it is folks: Let's do that right as Rich begins his OCM wall segment.

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Everything Else TWC / Re: General TWC Discussion

« on: December 21, 2008, 02:09:28 PM »

Yeah. Leaves a big unknown with MSNBC's weather segments, though. Will they go to Atlanta just for those? Or will they have a TWC meteorologist somewhere at 30 Rock?

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Everything Else TWC / Re: Blooper Thread

« on: December 21, 2008, 01:15:05 AM »

The code for the IntelliStars to display the LDL that has the Almanac, Travel, Air Quality, etc. for WWCH and stuff.

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Everything Else TWC / Re: Blooper Thread

« on: December 20, 2008, 11:19:43 PM »

TWC sent the detailed LDL code during EE overnight.

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General Discussion / Re: CBS WeatherNow Discussion

« on: December 20, 2008, 05:45:50 PM »

Yes. WeatherNow is only what Channel 5 brands that particular product.

And then there's GoAZ.tv, Channel 15's crazy implementation of AccuWeather that includes verbatim ADOT traffic updates. (Think traffic products on steroids, or TWC if you reversed the traffic to weather ratio.)