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Contributions / Re: travisallens weather star xl screen shots

« on: September 02, 2009, 12:48:15 PM »

Cool!

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Everything Else TWC / Re: TWC Schedule

« on: August 31, 2009, 04:56:57 PM »

Quote from: jtmal0723 on August 29, 2009, 09:56:10 AM

Quote from: WeatherSTARIII on August 28, 2009, 07:04:11 PM
Here's my version:

[..snip..]

11 PM-Midnight: Evening Edition Weekend West Coast
Hosts: Jarod Miller, Kim Perez
Jarod Miller is not a meteorologist. He's an animal expert for The Weather Channel, and I haven't even seen him in ages. I think he was primarily on Forecast Earth... Just felt like I should clarify this.

Sorry, I ran out of OCMs. I didn't want to use Al Roker.

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Everything Else TWC / An earlier WeatherPlus?

« on: August 29, 2009, 03:00:26 AM »

I found this on the Internet Archive website. While I was looking at old web archives of NBC WeatherPlus' website, I found this -- what appears to be an early concept of WeatherPlus. They didn't mention anything about NBC, but they do mention TWC. Here's the logo:

This was taken from May 12, 2000 (also the last known date that shows this website). The earliest archive was taken on October 12, 1999 -- nearly ten years ago. The earliest NBC WeatherPlus archive dates back to December 5, 2006 -- two years after its launch and two years before its shutdown.

Here's the link:
http://web.archive.org/web/20000512021140/http://www.weatherplus.com/

I'm not sure what had ever happened to the orginal WeatherPlus (not to be confused with NBC WeatherPlus), but since its been nearly a decade since its perposed launch date -- July 4, 2000.

Here's were they talk about TWC:
http://web.archive.org/web/20000713020942/www.weatherplus.com/press51899.htm

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In a recently completed survey of local cable system managers in 20 large markets, conducted by Frank N. Magid & Associates, 96% rated weather as important or very important to their customers. Cable customers agree with that assessment, according to a parallel national viewers study performed by Hase/Schannen Research Associates. But while 94% of cable customers declared that local coverage is the most important type of weather information they are seeking, only 20% felt that the current national cable weather channel is their preferred source for that information—nearly all respondents turn to the local TV news instead. And operators agree: only 25% of the respondents to the Magid survey felt that The Weather Channel does a good job with local weather and local severe weather coverage.

More about WeatherPlus' reaction to TWC:

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Cable customers would clearly embrace a new full-service national and local weather network. Given the choice, 78% of viewers said that they were likely to substitute WeatherPlus™ for their current use of The Weather Channel. Remarkably, given its "monopoly" status on the cable weather category for nearly 20 years and the presumed power of its ubiquitous brand name, a mere 2% said they would switch multichannel providers in order to retain The Weather Channel if their current provider replaced it with WeatherPlus™.

Again, I'm not sure what had ever happened to the orginal WeatherPlus, but we never had it in our area. We did had NBC Weather Plus from 2005-2008 on my NBC affilate WEEK-TV. After the NBC takeover of TWC, WEEK desided to keep their weather station on the air after NBC Weather Plus' shutdown. As far as my former NBC Weather Plus station, they now show replays of their newscasts along with the old "L" bar still showing local forecasts. WEEK even kept the old branding. It is now known as "WEEK Weather Plus."

Anyways, as for the other WeatherPlus, I'm not sure what had ever happened to that network. Maybe it was never launched at all. Maybe they went bankrupt before its launch. I don't know. But I beleve this was a failed project or something.

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Everything Else TWC / Re: TWC Schedule

« on: August 28, 2009, 07:04:11 PM »

Here's my version:

Weekdays
Midnight-4 AM: Overnight Outlook
Hosts: Warren Madden, Kelly Cass

4-5 AM: Weather Classroom

5-6 AM: First Outlook
Hosts: Jeff Marrow, Nicole Mitchell

6-11 AM: WeatherCenter AM
Hosts: Bill Keneely, Heather Tesch

11 AM-3 PM: WeatherCenter
Hosts: Carl Parker, Samantha Mohr

3-5 PM: Afternoon Outlook
Hosts: Adam Berg, Scott Willams

5-8 PM: WeatherCenter PM
Hosts: Mike Bettes, Stephanie Abrams

8-11 PM: Evening Edition
Hosts: Jim Cantore, Alexandra Steele

11 PM-Midnight: Evening Edition West Coast
Hosts: Paul Goodloe, Julie Martin

Weekends
Midnight-5 AM: Overnight Outlook Weekend
Hosts: Ray Stagich, Betty Davis

5 AM-11 AM: Weekend Now
Hosts: Nick Walker, Vivian Brown

11 AM-5 PM: WeatherCenter Weekend
Hosts: Kevin Robinson, Jennifer Carfagno

5 PM-8 PM: WeatherCenter PM Weekend
Hosts: Mike Seidel, Todd Santos

8 PM-11 PM: Evening Edition Weekend
Hosts: Ryan Goswick, Alex Wallace

11 PM-Midnight: Evening Edition Weekend West Coast
Hosts: Jarod Miller, Kim Perez

Note: I want to keep Al Roker on the Today show and WNBC-TV. I also want to discontinue any long-form programming and show a new updated edition of The Weather Classroom. I also want to reuse any former show titles (like Afternoon Outlook, Evening Edition, etc.)

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TWC Today News / Re: Site News

« on: August 28, 2009, 05:05:18 PM »

What about the links, I notice that some of the links is broken.

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TWC Fan Art / Re: TWCZach's Emulations and Drawings

« on: August 15, 2009, 04:57:16 AM »

Love it!

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Local Forecast / Re: Favorite WeatherSTAR

« on: August 10, 2009, 07:22:11 PM »

I like the 3000 for some reason. I also like the Junior too.

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Programming and Graphics / Re: The WUWA Poll

« on: August 10, 2009, 05:08:35 PM »

I voted average because it sort of reminds me of a rip off of the Today show. I also don't like that touch screen that Al uses. You can barely see the map.

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