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OCMs & Personalities / Re: Dave Schwartz Returns

« on: March 14, 2014, 10:23:02 PM »

The only other person I can come up with to leave for another station and return is Jennifer Lopez.

Yeah, but even that's not the best comparison. Jennifer left on her own free will, TWC let Dave go which I think many will agree was a stupid mistake on their part in the first place. I think with the whole Network Weather going belly up, DTV/TWC feud, and the threat of other networks competing against TWC fueled this. Why else would you suddenly invite who was a 20+ year OCM veteran of your network back to your network after kicking him to the curb nearly 6 years ago?

I know that makes me sound like some wild conspiracy theorist, but this announcement seems a little too convenient and of a coincidence especially considering Dave was largely apart of one of those companies that was expected to compete against TWC before those plans were scrapped. It feels like one of those "Keep your friends close and your enemies closer" situations to me. Hopefully that's not the case and they genuinely and sincerely wanted Dave to come back, but again the timing of this is just curious...

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General Discussion / Re: YouTube subscriptions

« on: March 14, 2014, 03:35:59 PM »

For those of you that use YouTube, they have once again screwed up the subscriptions area! Now it shows all recent videos (whether you've watched them or not), and there's no way to remove them from the list. I also noticed this morning that all, but one of my subscriptions were gone (so I had to remember which channels they were and re-subscribe)! I don't really mind all the changes they make, but I really don't understand why it's so difficult for them to make this area work properly.

This problem is very annoying to me.

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OCMs & Personalities / Re: Dave Schwartz Returns

« on: March 14, 2014, 03:22:41 PM »

Something tells me he'll probably only be a fill in though. I wouldn't get too excited. Where are they gonna put him? Nowadays (except WUWA and MR) the OCMs seemed to be randomly shuffled around.

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Local Forecast / Re: General LF Discussion

« on: March 12, 2014, 05:31:27 PM »

Atlanta's IS unit must be down, my LF is coming from Marietta instead...

6 hours later it's back to normal.

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Local Forecast / Re: General LF Discussion

« on: March 12, 2014, 11:00:15 AM »

Atlanta's IS unit must be down, my LF is coming from Marietta instead...

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General Discussion / Re: WeatherNation

« on: March 11, 2014, 05:00:30 PM »

Good interview, y'all should read this:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/capital-weather-gang/wp/2014/03/10/the-future-of-weathernation-interview-with-president-michael-norton/

Kinda funny reading that interview and how positive and optimistic it is concerning WN's future, yet you read the comments and they're mostly negative towards WN.

Something I noticed the other day was instead of showing their own LF, they showed a LF from our NBC affiliate which was several hours out of date anyway. It was pointless, why would I want to see an update from my local NBC station that was probably recorded in the morning when it's actually late in the afternoon/evening? I would prefer they not show our local news affiliates at all and show their own forecast instead.

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General Weather Chat / Re: What's the weather in your area?

« on: March 11, 2014, 04:41:53 PM »

Pretty dang close to our first 80 degree day of 2014 today, just 3 degrees shy...

77°F Partly Cloudy

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The Game Room / Re: Yes or No Question

« on: March 11, 2014, 04:40:51 PM »

Yeah, except pollen season that comes with it.

Have you ever been sailing?

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General Discussion / Re: The Pot Belly Stove

« on: March 10, 2014, 08:07:40 PM »

Every year after DST starts it feels weird because it's like we went from March to June. It doesn't get dark until WAY late like after 8pm. It doesn't feel right to me. I guess it's because you become so accustomed to it getting dark around 4-5pm every evening for about 4-5 months or so.

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General Weather Chat / Re: What's the weather in your area?

« on: March 09, 2014, 02:38:43 PM »

67°F Partly Cloudy

We may hit 70 today.

Hello Donovan, long time no post! 

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General Discussion / Re: My Scripted Series

« on: March 08, 2014, 08:57:35 PM »

Update: I'm 50% done with my show intro for "Misguided Missile". I chose to do this for my Advanced AE class project which spans the entire semester.

I would share a test video of what I have so far, but I think even if I watermark it w/ my name someone else might download it and claim it as their own work.

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Everything Else TWC / Re: General TWC Discussion

« on: March 07, 2014, 11:07:21 AM »

im not sure if this is the right thread to ask specifically but..

has anyone's weather channel been a blank empty screen nonstop since some point yesterday (even now) ??
i just noticed this all of a sudden here. it's purely nothing here. it's really weird. the screen is black (empty) but the bar at the bottom with the 24/7 local weather works fine, except it's been stuck in a infinite loop with the same tempature and such ever since.

Has this happened to any of you guys too by any chance ??
i seriously wish it was just showing an satellite emergency feed with trammel starks music or something

I did happen to see something like this happen yesterday around this exact time (11am). Not sure what causes it.

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Everything Else TWC / Re: General TWC Discussion

« on: March 06, 2014, 10:42:07 PM »

That logo would work so well with the recent graphics overhaul.

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Local Forecast / Re: General LF Discussion

« on: March 04, 2014, 10:06:37 PM »

The town of Dahlonega, GA was added to the regional radar map (replacing Helen, GA) in my area. I think the radar may have been shifted south some too.

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Forecasting / Re: Fall/Winter Weather Discussion Thread

« on: March 02, 2014, 10:27:36 PM »

Hmm, I've never seen a weather bulletin like this before...

Issued by The National Weather Service
Memphis, TN
Sun, Mar 2, 2014, 4:41 PM CST

CORRECTED... WINDS GUSTING TO 30 KNOTS TONIGHT
... AIRPORT WEATHER WARNING IN EFFECT FOR THE MEMPHIS INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT UNTIL 600 AM CST MONDAY...
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MEMPHIS HAS ISSUED AN AIRPORT WEATHER WARNING EFFECTIVE IMMEDIATELY FOR THE MEMPHIS INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT CONTINUING UNTIL 600 AM CST MONDAY. A MAJOR WINTER STORM IS EXPECTED TO IMPACT THE MEMPHIS INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT TONIGHT RESULTING IN SIGNIFICANT ICING. THE TEMPERATURE IS EXPECTED TO DROP TO FREEZING BY 5 PM... FALLING THROUGH THE 20S TONIGHT... WITH A LOW NEAR 17 DEGREES BY DAYBREAK MONDAY. WIDESPREAD FREEZING RAIN IS EXPECTED TO OCCUR MIXING WITH SLEET THIS EVENING... CHANGING TO SNOW AND SLEET AFTER MIDNIGHT. THUNDERSTORMS MAY ALSO OCCUR WITH THE PRECIPITATION OCCASIONALLY HEAVY. NORTH-NORTHEAST WINDS WILL GUSTS TO ABOUT 30 KNOTS. BETWEEN 1/2 AND 3/4 INCH ICE ACCUMULATION IS EXPECTED FROM FREEZING RAIN WITH AN ADDITIONAL ONE TO TWO INCHES OF SLEET AND SNOW. LIGHT SNOW MAY LINGER AFTER SUNRISE MONDAY AND IT IS POSSIBLE THE AIRPORT WEATHER WARNING WILL NEED TO BE EXTENDED.