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General Discussion / Re: The Pot Belly Stove

« on: December 07, 2009, 01:50:36 PM »

It's a sad day locally. A Penn Hills Police officer was basically ambushed last night while responding to a domestic violence call. He was shot while sitting in his patrol car awaiting backup. This hits home really hard because I know quite a few of the officers with the department (about 30 officers). I didn't know him personally, but this is a shame. Earlier this year 3 officers were killed in the City of Pittsburgh, where they were also ambushed when responding to a call.

All local media outlets have coverage, but here's a link to just one of KDKA's reports. There's multiple videos to watch on their site.
http://kdka.com/local/Penn.Hills.Police.2.1354552.html

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OCMs & Personalities / Re: Kevin Robinson leaving TWC

« on: December 07, 2009, 01:47:00 PM »

I really, really liked Kevin. This is sad news...

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Programming and Graphics / Re: NBC Universal to merge with Comcast

« on: December 06, 2009, 05:06:54 PM »

You all are once again forgetting that our viewership accounts for a very small minority in comparison to the rest of the general TWC audience. People like those shows. If they didn't, TWC wouldn't air them.

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Programming and Graphics / Re: NBC Universal to merge with Comcast

« on: December 06, 2009, 03:01:14 PM »

Because it's pretty obvious that's he  was the NBC exec who  played a big role into the changes in TWC....movies, extra longform, music, and even WUWA in some sort.
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Movies and extra longform were in the works long before NBC had any role in TWC...

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Local Forecast / Re: General LF Discussion

« on: November 26, 2009, 01:07:56 PM »

at this traffic map glitch

I have seen that glitch since July 2008 most recently just last week, but it was much worse. I know the IntelliStar doesn't technically "degrade" like the 4000, but couldn't these glitches be considered a different kind of degradation?

As far as the traffic map goes... no it's not degradation at all. The map is actually a product of it's own and is not built into the STAR. The map is actually on it's own computer at TWC and is more or less "inserted" into the LF.

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Weatherscan Discussion / Re: Weatherscan Topic

« on: November 26, 2009, 02:56:14 AM »

Weatherscan may be using Atlanta Airport, while the Istar is clearly using Downtown.

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Local Forecast / Re: General LF Discussion

« on: November 25, 2009, 01:31:07 AM »

Maybe they replaced your IntelliStar. That would be my best guess.

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Local Forecast / Re: General LF Discussion

« on: November 23, 2009, 12:34:08 AM »

I was down partying with some friends at CalU this weekend and managed to get a few pics of the STAR down there. It's 24224 on Armstrong Cable. It serves a very large, weirdly shaped area. It goes from Latrobe in the north, down through Mt. Pleasant, south to Connellsville, and all the way east to California. The area is so large and diversely-shaped that the forecast area is called "SW Pennsylvania." It's rare to find IntelliStars with a forecast name like that anymore. The CC site was Mt. Pleasant.

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Programming and Graphics / Re: Wake Up With Al

« on: November 22, 2009, 11:04:17 PM »

Yah, I never understood why they keep advertising it if it's a popular show already.

Any show on any network that becomes really popular always gets advertised a lot.  It's just how TV works.

Thank you. At least someone understands how the tv industry and pomos work.

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Programming and Graphics / Re: TWC going all long-form Thanksgiving night

« on: November 22, 2009, 02:02:00 PM »

This makes perfect sense to me. I mean... let's be honest, who's going to be sitting at home watching TWC on Thanksgiving?

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General Discussion / Re: Post your desktops

« on: November 18, 2009, 10:06:53 PM »

My current desktop:

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General Discussion / Re: Post-Secondary Education Tax

« on: November 10, 2009, 02:35:17 PM »

I think the tax makes sense, but it's just too much. The city's occupation tax for workers is $52 (to work 12 months long), but they want to charge some students up to $403 (to attend school for up to 8 months)? That doesn't make sense! I could see a flat-rate tax, but this tuition percentage is just too much IMO.

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General Discussion / Re: Post-Secondary Education Tax

« on: November 09, 2009, 04:13:01 PM »

This generation of Dems are full of stupid ideas.

So, I'm full of stupid ideas then? 

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General Discussion / Post-Secondary Education Tax

« on: November 09, 2009, 02:26:32 PM »

http://kdka.com/video/?id=64960@kdka.dayport.com

I'm interested in everyone's opinions on this. I understand the Mayor's rational behind this - but maybe a flat fee needs to be worked out to make the tax more fair. Do you have anything like this in your city?

BTW - I don't attend school within the City of Pittsburgh so this wouldn't affect me.

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General Discussion / Re: The Pot Belly Stove

« on: November 06, 2009, 12:16:24 PM »

http://kdka.com/video/?id=64819@kdka.dayport.com

Following that tragic story out of Cleveland, OH, KDKA did this report on Megan's Law. It works on the "honor system!" I can't believe states don't share information. Megan's Law really needs to be revisited...