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Local Forecast / Re: Expanded Local on the 8s

« on: June 01, 2010, 08:11:11 PM »

No particular reason was given as to why Pittsburgh was chosen. Though Jeff Morrow is from Pittsburgh. And yes, it is a trial run, however the trial was supposed to be over more than a month ago and it's still going.

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Local Forecast / Re: Expanded Local on the 8s

« on: June 01, 2010, 04:40:05 PM »

I'll try to get a clip of the other maps he uses, the promo, and the live LF opener he does saying "Hey Pittsburgh, stay tuned for you live expanded local on the 8s in just 2 minutes."

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Everything Else TWC / Re: General TWC Discussion

« on: June 01, 2010, 02:58:06 PM »

Ummm... what's with the parallelogram? 

Reminds me of the old TODAY Show L3s.

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Local Forecast / Expanded Local on the 8s

« on: June 01, 2010, 01:51:50 AM »

Here is a video clip from last week of Jeff Morrow's Expanded Local on the 8s segment he does here every weekday morning from 7-9am at:10 and :40 after. He uses a variety of customized, local  maps during each segment. Some segments are geared more toward Metro Pittsburgh (current conditions fly through of Allegheny county, etc), while this recording has more regional maps.

Expanded Local on the 8s

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Local Forecast / Re: City by City side bar Info.

« on: May 28, 2010, 09:16:57 AM »

Where did you get 47% from? I don't know about you, but on my HDTV, it is nowhere near 47% of the screen.

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Local Forecast / Re: General LF Discussion

« on: May 27, 2010, 10:03:09 PM »

Wow, I'm surprised Traverse City has an XL! Alpena has less people and they have an intellistar..

Population really has nothing to do with the version of STAR used. It has to do with the cable company and headend itself. I've been in some very rural places in VA, NC, and SC, most of which had IntelliStars.

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Local Forecast / Re: New Intellistar version?

« on: May 27, 2010, 08:48:33 PM »

]Maybe it's just me, but although I do miss the old version, I can read everything just fine on the current version.

Yes, that's the reason they changed it to black - because it was easy to read. They got tons and tons of complaints that the blue on blue was too difficult to read.

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Local Forecast / Re: New Intellistar version?

« on: May 27, 2010, 08:24:22 PM »

So what color do you want them to make it? Most colors won't look good with the current design.

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TWC Fan Art / Re: Tyler's HD Concepts

« on: May 26, 2010, 11:19:04 PM »

Latest update (HD version available):

HD local beta 2

Changes: working clock (notice it changes from 9:58pm to 10:00pm), added almanac
Upcoming changes: better health screen layout
Note: Narration is missing, weather data is incorrect

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General Discussion / Re: The Front Porch

« on: May 26, 2010, 08:08:39 PM »

Do we have a mobile version of the forums?

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Weatherscan Discussion / Re: Music on WS

« on: May 25, 2010, 11:25:21 PM »

Correct.

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Weatherscan Discussion / Re: Music on WS

« on: May 25, 2010, 10:21:41 PM »

It's not being discontinued.

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Local Forecast / Re: New Intellistar version?

« on: May 24, 2010, 09:46:11 PM »

Yeah, the blue LDL I would definitely agree was pushing the limits, so to speak. But this new LDL...

This LDL is pushing the limits even further than the blue LDL.

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Local Forecast / Re: New Intellistar version?

« on: May 24, 2010, 09:39:19 PM »

Al is correct - they began pushing it's limits with the implementation of the blue LDL in 2008.

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Local Forecast / Re: General LF Discussion

« on: May 22, 2010, 11:42:05 AM »

For some reason, the special weather statement crawling on TWC and on Weatherscan right now is only labeled as "Weather Statement" instead of "Special Weather Statement." Wonder why? I checked and the NWS still refers to it as a Special Weather Statement.