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TWC Today News / Re: LAT48's, part tres

« on: July 07, 2008, 11:10:09 PM »

Watch it, or I'll twist your nuts, too, Gary 

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TWC Today News / Re: LAT48's, part tres

« on: July 07, 2008, 10:49:56 PM »

I crack myself up sometimes.

If you take the part about me out it'll be fine! 

Nah. That's the "FEATURE PRESENTATION." Can't get rid of that, otherwise, no one here would enjoy it. Durr.

Goes along with your personal title

I figured, for the safety of the public at large, I'd take out the part of my "twisting" my bag of nuts. And no, it isn't recommended you try that at home... unless CE is there to oversee such an event. 

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TWC Today News / Re: LAT48's, part tres

« on: July 07, 2008, 10:45:19 PM »

So, uh, my tuner is still broken, so I can't participate.

Sooooo, I was thinking maybe a 2 minute "Tyler flavor," where there are clips of the following: Tyler picking his nose; Tyler beating the shit out of his brother; Tyler holding a piece of paper with the word "GARY" on it lighting it on fire; and many more misc. clips. Would this type of video suffice?

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Everything Else TWC / Re: NBC Buys TWC!!!

« on: July 07, 2008, 06:37:21 PM »

Honestly, I wouldn't mind L&O: SVU in place of Storm Stories at this point. L&O: SVU is my favorite show, though.

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Everything Else TWC / Re: NBC Buys TWC!!!

« on: July 07, 2008, 05:44:52 PM »

Maybe, but I've definately seen that before...particularly Jim Contore on World News Tonight on ABC.

Well those days are over. The management at NBC would shit themselves to find Jim appearing on a competing network once they actually "own" TWC.

Let's keep in mind that TWC will continue to be run as a seperate entity. 

Doesn't matter. NBCU will manage TWC. If they want the videos down, then they shall be brought down. Or at least to the best of their abilities.

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Everything Else TWC / Re: NBC Buys TWC!!!

« on: July 07, 2008, 12:05:46 PM »

Gary, you don't know that for sure. NBC may very well take them down, eventually (not now, obviously).


Here's my prediction... the first sign of NBC/TWC integration will be TWC field OCMs (Jim, Mike, Jeff, etc) reporting on NBC's TODAY Show and Nightly News during weather events, and/or NBC's field OCMs reporting on TWC. This, though, it still down the road.

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Everything Else TWC / Re: NBC Buys TWC!!!

« on: July 07, 2008, 01:08:10 AM »

For all of those who have been biting your nails (and toe nails) over the past few months:

(via NYTimes): "Under the terms of the deal, the Weather Channel will be run as an independent operation, rather than being merged into NBC’s own meteorological offering, NBC Weather Plus. Built as a competitor to the Weather Channel, Weather Plus has long been seen as an also-ran, with fewer viewers and generally higher placement on the channel dial."

EDIT: Billy clearly posted something similar above. Damn him.

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General Discussion / Re: The Pot Belly Stove

« on: July 06, 2008, 02:06:54 PM »

You never cease to amaze me...

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TWC and your Cable Company / Re: Time Warner to Spin Off Cable Company?

« on: July 06, 2008, 02:05:13 PM »

Time Warner isn't selling off it's cable company, it's simply spinning it off of the main company into a new division, that way, if the cable co goes into serious debt, and has to be sold, etc, Time Warner Corp. itself will still be safe.

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General Discussion / Re: Happy Fourth of July!

« on: July 04, 2008, 12:38:19 PM »

happy 4th of july to all!

And to all a good night!

Oops...ermm..wrong holiday. 

Whudda dumbass. 

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General Discussion / Re: What does this mean?

« on: July 03, 2008, 04:30:28 PM »

Syndication... that's exactly the reason you're seeing it. Should of been more clear in my post above.

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Local Forecast / Re: Do you want the K (1 min 30 sec) flavors at :18 and :48 to be gone?

« on: July 03, 2008, 04:29:09 PM »

Honestly, I don't even care about the music (I can still hear it under the narration. What a talent... I know). It needs to be discontinued because there's not enough time to display products.

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General Discussion / Re: What does this mean?

« on: July 03, 2008, 03:45:34 PM »

FCC regulations state that when there is a local full power broadcast station within a market … then that broadcaster has the right to enforce two FCCs rules: 1) network non-duplication and 2) syndicated exclusivity rules…

These FCC rules require that cable operators can not carry duplicate stations and that the cable operator must blackout any and all duplicated programming if it exists, on other stations.

So, it must mean some other channel is carrying the exact same programming, or something similar to that situation.

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General Discussion / Re: OUR 200th MEMBER!

« on: July 02, 2008, 12:49:48 AM »

Wow, two landmarks in one night! 

Three. The honorable has posted in this thread (me). You may leave now, Gary. 

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Everything Else TWC / Re: The Weather Channel | HD Discussion

« on: July 01, 2008, 11:20:15 PM »

I've always wondered if those teases were live. Though, I figured out once they started waiting so long after the opening is over and let the video freeze while the person doing the tease (usually Heather) sits down.

Also, looks what happens when you use live teasers. I'd pay to see this on TWC:
(CAUTION: Language)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nYAMDhVT50I

HAHA.