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General Discussion / Re: Companies that may not survive in 2009

« on: February 13, 2009, 07:38:01 PM »

Eckerd's still around?

They were bought out by CVS in 2002 here.

Yeah. Eckerd was round here, until it was bought out by Rite Aid last year.

Rite Aid could survive... if it didn't spend so much money acquiring Eckerd (all the Eckerd around here switched to Rite Aid early last year).

I know. I was against that move. Now there are two Rite Aids (one former Eckerd) less than 1000ft or so apart from each other. Its crazy and just stupid
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We have a similar problem around here. On the corner of Saltsburg Rd/Leechburg Rd/McGregor Rd in Penn Hills, there is a CVS, Walgreens, and Rite Aid (formerly Eckerd). Ironically, the same trio exists at the intersection of Frankstown Rd (PA380) and Coal Hollow Rd, also in Penn Hills.

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General Discussion / Re: Companies that may not survive in 2009

« on: February 13, 2009, 10:55:14 AM »

Rite Aid could survive... if it didn't spend so much money acquiring Eckerd (all the Eckerd around here switched to Rite Aid early last year).

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TWC and your Cable Company / Re: Charter or Comcast?

« on: February 12, 2009, 08:18:31 PM »

Charter operates ~25% of the XLs in existence and a few 4000s.

Can you back that statement up?

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Everything Else TWC / Re: General TWC Discussion

« on: February 12, 2009, 05:10:54 PM »

Here's some interesting information:

Mar 22-Mar 28: Why I Love Spring Week
Apr 14-Apr 25: Green is Universal
May 10-May 16: Great Escapes Week
Jun 7-Jun 13: Hurricane Week
Jun 12-Jun 18: Why I Love Summer Week
Aug 9-Aug 15: Back to School Week
Sep 13-Sep 19: Survival Week
Oct 11-Oct 17: Why I Love Fall
Nov 15-Nov 21: Green is Universal
Dec 20-Dec 26: Holiday Week

Interesting - seems the "Welcome to [season name here]" campaign is gone - and replaced by "Why I Love [season name here] Week." Also - it appears as if they want a specialized campaign every month or so (hurricane and summer week actually overlap!).

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General Discussion / Re: The Pot Belly Stove

« on: February 10, 2009, 10:13:49 PM »

Personally, I love it that we here in Pennsylvania have a public smoking ban. I hated going into restaurants and having it smell like smoke. Sure, they had smoking and non-smoking sections, but that didn't really make a difference because the whole place smelled like smoke anyway. I mean, if you wanna smoke, step outside for a few minutes and do it.

Having a smoking section in a restaurant is like having a peeing section in a pool.

Exactly.

Here in Michigan the proposal for a statewide smoking ban has once again stalled. 

Pennsylvania's went into effect this summer, and since I work in a restaurant, I'm very happy about it. And even though it went into effect several months ago - we still get phone calls asking if we have a smoking section!

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General Discussion / Re: Anyone good with Photoshop?

« on: February 10, 2009, 08:57:17 PM »

For starters, use the warp tool.

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Everything Else TWC / Re: General TWC Discussion

« on: February 08, 2009, 10:05:01 PM »

Did they redo the Severe Weather intro? I see on the monitors that the graphic was changed... If they did redo it, I hope they didn't trash the severe weather music track, I liked it...

Yea, it's changed since the HD launch. They've been using this one for a month or two now, IIRC.

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General Discussion / Re: The Pot Belly Stove

« on: February 08, 2009, 06:54:45 PM »

http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a62/photohosting1234/Fail/fail-1.gif

/leave the lulz to me.

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Local Forecast / Re: General LF Discussion

« on: February 08, 2009, 06:52:35 PM »

Today I saw a TWC ad scrolling on my IntelliStar. That's the first non-local ad crawl I've seen on it.

Nothing new. I remember seeing on before Epic Conditions premiered. Also, for TWC-HD, and now, just today, for the Storm Stories comeback.

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General Discussion / Re: The Pot Belly Stove

« on: February 06, 2009, 11:59:16 PM »

Can't wait for Valentine's Day.

Me too.

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General Discussion / Re: The Pot Belly Stove

« on: February 04, 2009, 10:24:55 PM »

I have similar issues to what you have in Bensalem. KYW 3 is on 2, 6ABC is on 4, NBC 10 is on 11, etc. I have no idea why it's like that there and no place else around Philadelphia. It's been like that actually for at least 10 years, during the Suburban Cable era.

When we had AT&T Broadband, the channels weren't like that. It wasn't until Comcast took over that the local channel numbers were changed up. KDKA CBS 2 is on channel 6, WTAE ABC 4 is on channel 8, WPXI NBC 11 is on channel 12, WQED 13 is on channel 10, WPCW CW 19 is on 15, WPMY MY 10 is on channel 9, WPGH FOX 53 is on channel 7.

Luckily, with FiOS, all the channel numbres are right.

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General Discussion / Re: The Pot Belly Stove

« on: February 04, 2009, 09:07:19 PM »

I'm just gonna get straight to the point on this one... they lied to you.

Technically, the way they phrased it, they didn't.  Comcast (and no content provider, anyway) is not permitted to make channel changes until after February 17 June 12, as to not confuse subscribers.  Of course, the rep probably didn't know that and was probably talking out their butt....

Any time I emailed Comcast about channel issues - I got a very similar response. Even to ask them something simple - like why KDKA (CBS 2) is on channel 6, or WPXI (NBC 11) is on channel 12? And they would tell me it's because of the digital transition - which is a load of crap.

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TWC Today News / Re: Vote For TWCT's New Design!

« on: February 04, 2009, 08:01:37 PM »

So, I suppose it's too late to change my vote? Dang!

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General Discussion / Re: The Pot Belly Stove

« on: February 04, 2009, 07:05:49 PM »

Yep i know, but my local Comcast rep told me "When the DTV transition happens many new hd channels would be added."

I'm just gonna get straight to the point on this one... they lied to you.

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General Discussion / Re: Let's have a fake interview with Rich Johnson about his layoff...

« on: February 04, 2009, 07:04:47 PM »

That was AWESOME, Steve!