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Local Forecast / Re: TWC Songs you've heard in other places
« on: April 06, 2012, 12:27:05 PM »
Just heard Evelyn "Champagne" King's Shame on the "Back in the Day Buffet" on 95.7.
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General Discussion / Re: President Obama Threatening to cut NWS budgets
« on: April 05, 2012, 01:47:34 PM »It just amazes me what this guy will say to get what he wants. He doesn't seem the least bit phased about lying or contradicting himself. Even when he does so in the same speech!No, that's Willard Romney.
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Your Local Weather / Re: Tampa Bay Weather
« on: April 04, 2012, 10:20:34 PM »The same line that impacted Dallas the other day is now moving into the area!
Oh my, that line looks fierce!
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General Discussion / Re: What are you listening to?
« on: April 04, 2012, 11:17:14 AM »
Norman Brown - This Time Around
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Local Forecast / Re: Has the L-bar been discontinued?
« on: April 04, 2012, 11:14:24 AM »Maybe a bit of exaggeration.I realize that was nearly 8 months ago. Have things really changed since then?Things certainly have changed since then.You should also note that the quote you just did was from August 2011 and things have definitely changed since thenTWC doesn't care anymore, IMO. They will continue to promote programming uninterrupted, unless a tropical system is nearing. The L-bar was a good idea to at least show radar and a forecast. All you have now is some dinky LDL.That is so sad.You absolutely cannot rely on TWC for severe weather coverage (or really any weather coverage) anymore.
But TWC does a good job, from what I have seen, of covering severe weather when necessary. However, Tavores has a point. TWC has to be more consistent in their coverage. For instance, in the summertime down here, severe weather occurs on almost a daily basis. In terms of the overall quality, TWC has gotten worse, especially with the music and the programming. The Weather Channel has changed so much since I started watching it that I honestly don't think I'll be pleased with any changes they make unless they return to the mission that they started with. Since I doubt that's going to happen, I doubt I'm going to see the network the same way as I did in the past.
Remember when The Learning Channel actually focused on education? Remember when Bravo actually focused on high culture? Remember when The Weather Channel actually focused on weather?
Television is careening towards a homogeneous stew simply because advertisers want to stick with what people already know. Reporting on the movement of a cold front across the North American continent isn't going to attract as many advertisers as showing people being pulled out of the ocean or helicoptered to a hospital from the tundra.
Yes, I think it's 100% sad that advertising basically dictates what appears on the television screen. Even sadder is that there's precious little alternative. Americans would start a new revolution if they had to pay a license fee like Britons do to support the BBC. (Even thought the caliber of BBC programming is so much higher than almost all American programming.)
I agree with you. Disney, Nickelodeon, MTV, TWC, TLC, Vh1, and others have all abandoned their original formats for essentially a promotion of reality TV and/or whatever stuff is popular. TV programming is not the same as it was even 10 years ago.
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Local Forecast / Re: Has the L-bar been discontinued?
« on: April 03, 2012, 09:09:57 PM »Things certainly have changed since then.You should also note that the quote you just did was from August 2011 and things have definitely changed since thenTWC doesn't care anymore, IMO. They will continue to promote programming uninterrupted, unless a tropical system is nearing. The L-bar was a good idea to at least show radar and a forecast. All you have now is some dinky LDL.That is so sad.
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Everything Else TWC / Re: Create your own TWC Schedule
« on: April 02, 2012, 10:54:23 PM »My schedule would be for long form to be moved to a sister network TWC could launch, Todd, (The guy who kinda looks like a younger Cantore, I forgot his name)Mark Elliot?
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Local Forecast / Re: March/April and May 2012 Playlists
« on: April 01, 2012, 02:57:06 PM »again, that's why I quit caring. I came to the realization that jazz and new age arent coming back, so i will focus on TWC music from 1986-2009Yeah, I only casually listen now. The times I listen, I only seem to hear about 7 of the same songs.
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TWC and your Cable Company / Re: Is cable TV going downhill?
« on: April 01, 2012, 02:55:44 PM »
I miss the 90s when Nick showed cartoons like Inspector Gadget, Muppet Babies, Alvin and the Chipmunks, and Garfield and Friends. Garfield and Friends also used to come on channel 44 down here every weekday morning at 6am for a while until the mid 2000s, I think. I remember waking up regularly and watching that. 
Also 44 used to have the Disney Afternoons with Quack Pack, Goof Troop, Disney's Doug, Darkwing Duck, etc. At least Boomerang shows some classics, though the only cartoon I look at is the Jetsons.
Also 44 used to have the Disney Afternoons with Quack Pack, Goof Troop, Disney's Doug, Darkwing Duck, etc. At least Boomerang shows some classics, though the only cartoon I look at is the Jetsons.
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Local Forecast / Re: March/April and May 2012 Playlists
« on: April 01, 2012, 02:12:38 AM »
Man, who wants to hear rock and country music on TWC? 
The TWC music department really does not seem to have a good taste anymore, nor do they care.
The TWC music department really does not seem to have a good taste anymore, nor do they care.
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General Discussion / Re: The Front Porch
« on: March 31, 2012, 01:28:23 PM »
I heard there were winners in Illinois, Maryland and Kansas.
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General Discussion / Re: The Front Porch
« on: March 30, 2012, 07:35:23 PM »
Is anyone playing the Mega Millions lottery? It is not available down here, though.
It is not available down here, though.
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The Game Room / Re: Which would you prefer?
« on: March 28, 2012, 06:34:20 PM »
US
What It Takes by Will Donato or Do What It Takes by Jeff Lorber?
What It Takes by Will Donato or Do What It Takes by Jeff Lorber?
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The Game Room / Re: "In my pants" Game
« on: March 28, 2012, 06:31:58 PM »
TWC was at its best until June 2009 imp.
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Local Forecast / Re: March/April and May 2012 Playlists
« on: March 28, 2012, 06:31:07 PM »In my opinion, twc has been shooting themselves in the foot. The playlists IMO were the last saving grace to the network but overall they are on a decline to the non-average viewer. I agree from mid 2009 onwards the playlists were awful and we"ll never see monthly jazz playlists anymore. I wish there was another cable weather station that would play music like that on their forecast segments but I doubt if there's capacity for another all-weather station to tap in the US market. With the loss of jazz, regular playlists and fewer local forecasts, there's really no point for me to watch twc anymore. I don't know if it's worth making test playlists either because it's nowhere near the same as actually hearing them on the lfI agree. They are so arrrogant and borderline reckless in their attempt to push through this anti-jazz agenda at all costs.
