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Local Forecast / Re: General LF Discussion

« on: September 18, 2014, 03:44:39 PM »

New Weather Channel Local On The 8s music?

Nope.
That's just a different cut of the TWC Brand Anthemn, without the sfx.  I have a copy if you want to listen to the whole thing.

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Everything Else TWC / Re: General TWC Discussion

« on: September 18, 2014, 09:43:44 AM »

Lots of errors have been happening on today's episode of AMHQ, like on the first Lot8s a emergency LF appeared, then after another LOT8s with a Silent LF, the AMHQ feed was showing a chair with as ScoreCast behind it, then a frozen Lowe's commercial

They are doing some playout system software updates today, could be the cause of it.

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Everything Else TWC / Re: General TWC Discussion

« on: September 15, 2014, 09:52:06 PM »

Fun game to play during the 7pm ET hour of Weather Center Live: count the number of times Chris Warren says the words "right now!"

I'll look at the archive then make a complation, lol.

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Everything Else TWC / Re: General TWC Discussion

« on: September 15, 2014, 02:09:56 PM »

6:24am one of the weirdest I've seen

Star issue.

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Everything Else TWC / Re: General TWC Discussion

« on: September 12, 2014, 06:31:30 PM »

@SamRichardson92 Sorry if this seems a little pushy, but what is the weather channel going to do with LO8s music? Are they staying with the production songs, bringing back jazz or vocals? I tried tweeting @freddyflaxman but unfortunately no response. If you cannot answer this question then just say so.

Popped you a private message!

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Everything Else TWC / Re: General TWC Discussion

« on: September 12, 2014, 02:37:07 PM »

The Weather Channel 2050 Forecast

TWC in 2050: Like, what?! They probably haven't seen Back to the Future II, TWC was even spoofed in that film.

I got an advanced screener of this, it was really cool! The design team spent a long time on that set,

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Everything Else TWC / Re: General TWC Discussion

« on: September 12, 2014, 02:28:17 PM »

I've noticed this week that TWC is now using the AMHQ areas of the HD studio during WCL.

Yep! That's part of a new plan to make the shows more interactive.  Looks good, doesn't it!?

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Hurricane Central / Re: Tropical Storm Edouard

« on: September 12, 2014, 02:20:02 PM »

Fish storm.

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Emulator Videos / Re: IntelliSTAR "All the Time" Emulator

« on: September 12, 2014, 09:22:05 AM »

Alright, I'm back after a bit of a break.  I've continued working, and got all of the graphics remade and compiled into a video.  I did this in PowerPoint and created several PowerPoint "layers", then used Sony Vegas to overlay them and compile them. 

<a href="https://www.youtube.com/v/qIt34KPl5II" target="_blank" class="new_win">https://www.youtube.com/v/qIt34KPl5II</a>
TWC Intellistar 2 HD Emulation - Local on the 8s - Butler PA 6/21/14

You can see the final product, plus my "Weatherscan Prototype" at the end, which is essentially a modified version of the lower and sidebars, or, to use Marconan's words, "Box graphics".

All of the graphics I developed can be exported to high quality images.

So, now the question is, how do we create a computer program that can produce the same outcome, and run automatically to retrieve weather data from the Internet.  I've looked briefly at wunderground.com's "Weather API".  Do any coders want to weigh in and try to help us out?  I know a little code, but not enough to start something like this.

UPDATE: Whoops, I forgot the temperature arc on the Summary, and I forgot narrations.

This is amazing! Do you want me to send you some of the LOT8 music so you could sync it better with it?

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Questions, Comments, Suggestions / Re: WYCATT Track

« on: September 12, 2014, 08:58:15 AM »

That track that I was talking about, I think that was it. I heard that track played on the K flavor.

I can probably find it for you.

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Programming and Graphics / Re: The Weather Channel - LIVE ON YOUTUBE

« on: September 12, 2014, 08:51:28 AM »

Now, there is a stream that seems to be online only, showing severe coverage.  "WATCH LIVE: Severe Storm Coverage:" http://youtu.be/cei3uGi1nFU

Pro tip if you ever go into the tv biz.... if you are wearing a mic ALWAYS assume it's live. I heard a few cuss words dropped in some of the convo when they were "off air" in that clip from the stream. Oops!

When I visited TWC I was let in on some information regarding this. You guys guessed correctly, in the event of a severe event in a local area, TWC will livestream  the coverage on YouTube as well as breaking into the locally affected market and keeping the national feed on natural drama programming.

This is the off air feed, so that explains the swear words and such, this is only temporary while they find a way to get the viz feed onto the livestream without having to stream the national feed w/ commercials.
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The Game Room / Re: Ban the Person above you

« on: September 04, 2014, 03:36:26 PM »

Banned for being a member of this forum.

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Everything Else TWC / Re: Ask TWC Anything! (Well, almost)

« on: August 26, 2014, 08:35:15 PM »

Wow Sam! I wish I could go on a tour of TWC HQ someday. So did you get a tour of the whole building, or just the studio?

It was most of the building.  Pretty interesting place!

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Everything Else TWC / Re: Ask TWC Anything! (Well, almost)

« on: August 26, 2014, 07:42:35 PM »

Me with David Clarck (The President of TWC)
As well as the VP of design & the director of design

Looks like Freddy Flaxman on the second left

Very well could have been. Think I got that caption wrong. He sort of slid in from the side as we were about to take the picture.

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Everything Else TWC / Re: Ask TWC Anything! (Well, almost)

« on: August 26, 2014, 08:14:04 AM »

I have a  friend who works there.  I don't mean to be a jerk, but I just don't know how to respond to your questions. I can't say  I "don't know anything".  I did get answers to your questions which I will be posting sometime later this week. I'm just pretty busy right now. I aplogize for any inconvience or upsetment caused by my posts. I'm not trying to brag nor do I think I should be bragging.

Sam