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Weatherscan Discussion / Re: Weatherscan Topic

« on: July 18, 2016, 12:18:07 PM »

While I'm quite surprised that Weatherscan still has some signs of life, I bet it'll probably be another few years or so before the channel ultimately fades into history. The facts of that are obvious, Weatherscan still runs on 12 or 13-year-old computers plus there has been a significant carriage drop of the channel over the past 5 years; e.g. Verizon FiOS as well as Comcast's inter-mountain and west coast markets. Despite all that, I myself was lucky to even see Weatherscan in person, of course back when I used to live in Spokane and had Comcast. Now that that's long gone, I can always look back at the many DVD recordings I have of the channel as well as listen to the entire music playlist.

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Programming and Graphics / Re: Weekly Top Ten Countdown

« on: July 08, 2016, 12:02:36 PM »

Personally, I don't have a problem with shows that are actually about weather, albeit I very rarely watch them. IIRC, The Weather Channel has said that those other "weather" shows (e.g. Fat Guys In The Woods or Prospectors) will not be getting renewed for another season. Still, I've seen a lot of posts on TWC's Facebook page from many angry and upset people (not naming names) who constantly complain and rant about the lack of live weather programming during weeknights and weekends and tell others to switch to alternatives such as WeatherNation or AccuWeather. Seriously, when will they ever learn that frequent complaining doesn't make things go faster if at all?

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General Weather Chat / Re: What's the weather in your area?

« on: July 07, 2016, 01:45:07 PM »

61º Cloudy.

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General Discussion / Re: Recent music purchases

« on: July 07, 2016, 01:44:03 PM »

Moby - 18 B Sides + DVD, featuring the song "Love Of Strings".

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Weatherscan Discussion / Re: Weatherscan not being offered in Shamrock Lakes, Indiana

« on: June 26, 2016, 10:41:54 AM »

As far as I know, Frontier FiOS still carries Weatherscan both in Seattle and in Portland. Recently I've also discovered that in the northeastern Oregon town of Elgin, the local cable provider there, known as Elgin TV Association, carries Weatherscan on channel 11, though surprisingly not The Weather Channel itself.

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General Weather Chat / Re: What's the weather in your area?

« on: June 26, 2016, 10:10:50 AM »

57º Partly Cloudy.

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Local Forecast / Re: Forecasts at :48

« on: June 19, 2016, 01:57:16 PM »

There was no LF at 10:48AM PT (1:48PM ET) though, nor at :18.

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General Discussion / Re: What's Your Speedtest and Pingtest results?

« on: June 19, 2016, 01:55:22 PM »

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Local Forecast / Re: TWC Songs you've heard in other places

« on: June 17, 2016, 12:39:26 AM »

Heard "Green Onions" by Booker T & The MGs this evening during a Royal Canin ad on TV.

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Everything Else TWC / Re: General TWC Discussion

« on: June 14, 2016, 12:00:28 PM »

I noticed some minor programming changes this morning, specifically between :42 and :51 of the hour. First, Weather Center Live was cut short by about 3 minutes and was replaced with an ad block, with a TWC ad somewhere in the middle. After the :49 LF, it was another ad or two meant to cue local headend ads, followed by another TWC ad then it's WCL until :58. Either something may be in the works or TWC just needed the extra ad revenue, though I bet it is most likely the latter.