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Local Forecast / Re: Have these songs played on the weather channel before?
« on: December 08, 2013, 09:23:58 PM »Yes, it was used in March 2000.What about Morning Song by The Rippingtons?Not that I'm aware of.
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General Discussion / Re: Gas prices in your area
« on: December 06, 2013, 06:43:17 PM »
$3.25 and it's inching up 
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General Discussion / Re: What Type of Cell Phone Do You Have?
« on: December 06, 2013, 06:42:42 PM »
Google Nexus 5 and I love it 
Will never go back to the iPhone again.
Will never go back to the iPhone again.
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Local Forecast / Re: General LF Discussion
« on: December 04, 2013, 03:30:34 PM »
Does anyone know if TWC will even have a Christmas playlist? Or maybe just use holiday production stuff
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Local Forecast / Re: TWC Songs you've heard in other places
« on: December 04, 2013, 03:30:07 PM »
I heard a Mad Russian's Christmas by TSO on Pandora earlier this afternoon.
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OCMs & Personalities / Re: New to TWC
« on: December 04, 2013, 03:29:32 PM »
That's excellent, but how much of promotion or "demotion" is this really? I watch GMA every morning and have been watching it since 5th grade and am quite shocked to see him leave ABC for a "NBC" branded station like TWC. He must be crazy to leave a $3M a year job at ABC with TWC unless something happened with ABC lately.
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Local Forecast / Re: RIP ~ Real Music
« on: December 04, 2013, 03:27:55 PM »I was the one who inquired about smooth jazz on their FB page, they said they were talking to a 'fantastic jazz composer' but it seems Network Weather Channel is really looking for a music composer, which I believe Ms. Ricks would be an excellent candidate for provided many of the NWC staff used to previously work for TWC.Hey Guys,I would love to have your music back on the forecast. As for cc17926, your right TWC has been having that attidude toward their programming. But it would be a good idea to give it a try imin! Let's see what happens. If TWC doesn't take the offer well as cc17926 said you can always try network weather. They said there talking with jazz artists on their facebook page! Well it was in the comments on one of there posts.
You have probably noticed that the local is currently using only two pieces of canned, branded music from some catalog. Not good.
There's a guy named Jeremy Jones at the Weather Channel in Atlanta who has been put in charge of content. I sent him an email and left a VM regarding the music situation.
I'd welcome your support. I'd like to be assigned as their in-house music coordinator (which includes music discovery, acquiring overall licensing deals for labels, artists, publishers and artist representation) or at the very least compose new music for them. The goal is to develop and curate their Weather Channel -sound and brand- for all productions (regular programming: pilots, series, specials and promotions, etc. , the whole enchilada).
My degree in Film Scoring from Berklee College of Music, the variety of music that I've scored for several films including 'Assassination Tango', combined with all of the music that I've written for them in the past ~ should be enough of a background to easily qualify to write ANY style of music that they need, not just 'Smooth Jazz'!
I want to encourage them not to take the easy way out and just use a third party music service but, instead have a steady flow of original music written specifically for their audience.
Anybody with me?
~JR
Miss Ricks, I would be more than happy to support you. Please let us know what else we can do next. TWC said the two obnoxous production pieces would be gone soon, though by 'soon' they probably mean early half of 2014 or something..
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Programming and Graphics / Re: New Graphics coming to TWC
« on: November 26, 2013, 10:19:41 PM »
I think this is the most colorful radar map you will get on the new IS, thanks to Boreas 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_kCA9hItsCQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_kCA9hItsCQ
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Programming and Graphics / Re: New Graphics coming to TWC
« on: November 24, 2013, 07:03:11 PM »I have a few problems with the maps/forecasts.I think that's where Los Angeles is listed. Mike is right about LA being in the SE map, Memphis fits in alphabetical order on the list, so it's likely they left out Memphis and put in LA for some peculiar reason.
First of all, there is PLENTY of room to put Memphis on that map. The Southeast one or the Midwest one.
Memphis, TN is almost 2x larger than Jackson, MS; yet, not only is Jackson on the map, they are also on the forecast.
You would think that it would almost only have sense to have the exact same cities on the map as on the forecast. I noticed that Charleston, West Virginia is included on the forecast but not on the map for the NE, and then Charleston, South Carolina is included on the map and forecast on the next screen for the SE. That may get confusing, since there are no states labeled.
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The Game Room / Re: Ban the Person above you
« on: November 24, 2013, 01:52:18 AM »
Banned because it's complicated!
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Programming and Graphics / Re: New Graphics coming to TWC
« on: November 24, 2013, 01:43:12 AM »
For anyone with satellite, is there a reason why Washington, DC has been left out for the cities listed under "Today's Forecast" (especially when it shows the Northeast region's map)? It just makes no sense to leave out the forecast for the nation's capital. 
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TgY8AZcsk5E | |
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Programming and Graphics / Re: New Graphics coming to TWC
« on: November 20, 2013, 01:02:40 PM »If there's ever a time that TWC would revert away from the Taylor Swift type of music, it'd be real soon after this transition. I'll be quite content if the music they add in addition to what's playing now is similar to each other. I'm a fan of displaying the song title and artist on screen; however, this kind of hints to me that the music selections will be similar to what we've been hearing lately.Me too, I'm kinda surprised they decided it was worthy enough to add the song title and artist on the screen. If that's the case, it's likely they won't use production music any further. I hope they don't revert back to vocals. After all the money they spent on the transition, and higher royalties associated with licensing vocals, it wouldn't make sense (especially after all the complaints over the years). TWC has been keeping quiet about the type of music they'd be reusing too which makes me further suspicious.
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Severe Weather / Re: Severe Weather Season 2013
« on: November 17, 2013, 12:13:54 PM »
New one including southern MO, AR and TN
http://www.spc.noaa.gov/products/watch/ww0563.html
http://www.spc.noaa.gov/products/watch/ww0563.html
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Local Forecast / Re: General LF Discussion
« on: November 17, 2013, 12:11:17 PM »I love that strong storm icon, still my favorite XL icon out of all of them in the set.Did it loop the two minute flavor?Yes, and it did a few other things I've never seen it do..<a href="https://www.youtube.com/v/NT2cOfBMros" target="_blank" class="new_win">https://www.youtube.com/v/NT2cOfBMros</a>