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TWC Fan Art / Re: The Weather Channel Reimagined

« on: December 07, 2008, 09:15:47 PM »

Third post of the night with the Surf Report, luckily found in an IntelliStar WxScan product guide. I need the rest of the Boat and Beach report.

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TWC Fan Art / Re: The Weather Channel Reimagined

« on: December 07, 2008, 05:19:29 PM »

The Spanish Forecast and an alternative Traffic Report, inspired by Robert.

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TWC Fan Art / Re: The Weather Channel Reimagined

« on: December 07, 2008, 12:47:08 PM »

Weatherscan, Weatherscan, Weatherscan! I spent last night on WxScan concepts...and here they are! I scoured the Weatherscan videos for segments!
W3, W4: Airport ConditionsW5: Outdoor Activity ForecastW6: Health Forecast (those bars took a heck of a time to make! I realized I needed a Gradient Overlay with transparent termini and then set the fill to 0)W7: Air QualityW8: UV IndexW9: Gardening ForecastW10: Tee Time ForecastW11: Golf Course Forecast (I could also do a more generic 5-day like the XL, but this is the IS-type)W12: Ski Conditions
Coming soon: the Spanish Forecast, an extremely rare WxScan package I remember from my Weatherscan unit; and anything else you want!

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TWC Fan Art / Re: Billy's Artwork

« on: December 07, 2008, 12:37:03 PM »

Smells like Helvetica.

Most of the new TWC uses Helvetica. The IS also has Interstate and Frutiger (the latter is for WxScan), the XL uses Akzidenz-Grotesk (look at the R in Akzidenz and Helvetica as distinguishing), and there's a few other font oddities in the TWC history books. (Gill Sans was the font du jour during the No Place on Earth era, for example.)

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TWC Fan Art / Re: My own little spin on things...

« on: December 06, 2008, 09:44:47 PM »

Yep. Why it's available in Martin's (domestic) IS goodies is a mystery to me, but it is...

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TWC Fan Art / Re: The Weather Channel Reimagined

« on: December 06, 2008, 09:43:04 PM »

A satellite forecast in the Wave 2 style, heralding the return of the Travel Cities Forecast!
...Any ideas for concepts? I'm actually having a case of Weather Star block.

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Local Forecast / Re: WeatherSTAR III Discovery

« on: December 05, 2008, 06:47:32 PM »

...TWN uses something called PMX now (PelMoreX, get it?). They rolled it out in 1997. (Ironically, the 4000 was made by Amirix, a Canadian company.)

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TWC Fan Art / Re: The Weather Channel Reimagined

« on: December 04, 2008, 10:12:23 PM »

I take that as a compliment.

Can you find who made them?

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TWC Fan Art / Re: The Weather Channel Reimagined

« on: December 04, 2008, 09:12:26 PM »

Re: Chris: I do not even have a YouTube account. They're not recreations, but rather concepts. If I was controlling TWC, I'd throw them ten years back in certain ways - graphics, programming, etc. and cut off the air on the Junior and 4000. (It's about time to me - they haven't been updated substantially in years.)

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TWC Fan Art / Re: The Weather Channel Reimagined at TWCT

« on: December 04, 2008, 08:40:06 PM »

A look at some new icons, made by Robert and Michael:

-Partly Sunny (never used on the XL and rarely on air, but captured from a Weatherscan Local XL product guide)
-Partly Cloudy PM 2 (XLv2, XLv3, IS)
-Mostly Sunny

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Everything Else TWC / Re: TWC Lays off Staff

« on: December 01, 2008, 09:48:23 AM »

Duran appeared on MSNBC this morning in TWC winter storm gear.

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Everything Else TWC / Re: TWC Lays off Staff

« on: December 01, 2008, 09:10:40 AM »

I'm hearing that CNBC's going to get cuts too. It sounds more like a GE-related thing than a TWC-related thing. Remember, GE has a budget shortfall, which affects NBCU, which affects TWC.

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Everything Else TWC / Re: Interesting TWC/NBC Thing I Saw...

« on: November 30, 2008, 05:46:42 PM »

This likely explains some of the layoffs at OCM-level in order to bring in WX+ people.

We're one of the last markets left with local WX+ inserts, actually. I don't know if this station, which is the market leader (for news, at least), will come out with its own product because after it started, two other digital subchannels signed on in competition.

Weatherscan for TV would be huge, but the DMAs are so large (Phoenix covers northern Arizona too!) to cover.

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Everything Else TWC / Re: Past versions of TWC

« on: November 30, 2008, 05:43:10 PM »

XLv1 era. The best graphic design that came out of TWC in its history.

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TWC Fan Art / The Weather Channel Reimagined

« on: November 29, 2008, 05:44:56 PM »

I have a bunch of modern concepts (XL-IS ish) - a complete package of TWC concepts and now some for WxScan.

The types:
Wave 1 concepts use a blue cloud background, ISv3 style titles, and have a PMX touch with the location name. Examples in Wave 1 use Middletown, Virginia and have file names beginning with TWC Concept.
Wave 2 features a different background, XLv1 style titles, and Charleston as the example city. Wave 2 also contains some WeatherScan designs using Frutiger. Wave 2 designs have just numbers or a number preceded by a W (for Weatherscan) for file names. "Current Conditions.png" is a concept for a 2-site STAR.
There are also other concepts featuring an updated 4000.

Resources used are original, from Martin's IS goodies (Record Temp items and Frutiger), from Robert, Michael, Tyler, and Al Lopez (modified XL icons), the Samurize forums and Stephen (XL icons), or the National Weather Service (weather advisories you see here were actually issued!). Very little of the weather data is real - if it is, it was obtained from weather.com or Weather Underground (almanac). The backgrounds were taken from large-format photos of clouds and then modified to look blurred.

One thing I noticed is that the Samurize forums called the XL icons the "Reference" package. There's no current TWC set, which is ironic enough considering some things TWC hasn't updated in years (the TWC Mac Dashboard widget and some web gadgets) still use the XL icons.