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General Discussion / Re: My Scripted Series

« on: January 17, 2014, 11:26:59 PM »

Thank you for the input Trevor, hopefully I'll be able to decide on one soon. I like the Awkward, Cute Cartoon, and Orange Juice fonts the best in addition to the two you picked.

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Winter Weather / Re: Worst Arctic Outbreak in 20 Years Coming 1/5-8/2014

« on: January 16, 2014, 01:01:04 PM »

We may have a Part II coming soon folks...We'll have to wait and see how things shape up after MLK Day, it looks very interesting.

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IntelliStar 2 Discussion / Re: Intellistar 2 Greetings list

« on: January 16, 2014, 11:07:50 AM »

Show me the sunny!

Never seen this one before.

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General Discussion / Re: My Scripted Series

« on: January 16, 2014, 08:56:42 AM »

I could really use some help on this. As one of two projects I'm doing for my advanced AE class, I've decided to do a intro to my new scripted series and I'm trying to decide on a font for the title. These are 8 of the best ones I've seen and liked from dafont.com

Orange Juice


Cute Cartoon


Kraash


Chicken Butt


Space Out


Get the F@#% Up


Teenage Delinquent


Awkward

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TWC and your Cable Company / Re: DirecTV Dropping TWC

« on: January 14, 2014, 09:17:49 PM »

I don't get it. What did she say that was so unprofessional? In fact, what did she say that was any different from what a lot of OCMs (including Jim Cantore) has already said since this weekend?

EDIT: Oh nevermind, I guess you're talking about her response to someone else and not the actual post itself.

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TWC and your Cable Company / Re: DirecTV Dropping TWC

« on: January 14, 2014, 09:56:16 AM »

ATLANTA -- January 14, 2014 -- At 12:01 this morning,  The Weather Channel is no longer available on DIRECTV,  which refused to come to an agreement on a market-based carriage deal. Following is a statement from David Kenny, chairman and CEO of The Weather Company:

“This is unprecedented for The Weather Channel. In our 32 years, we have never had a significant disruption due to a failure to reach a carriage agreement. We offered DIRECTV the best rate for our programming, and I am shocked they have put corporate profits ahead of keeping a trusted channel that subscribers rely on every day. We are not looking for a large fee increase. We are simply looking for a fair deal that allows our company to continue to invest in the science and technology that enables us to keep people safe, deliver the world’s best weather, and tell weather stories to help people be prepared and informed.

“At a time when DIRECTV has increased customer rates by 4 percent, they are trading safety for  increased profits and replacing the experience and expertise of The Weather Channel with a cheap startup that does weather forecasting on a three-hour taped loop, has no field coverage, no weather experts -- certainly not any on par with The Weather Channel network’s industry-recognized experts like tornado expert Dr. Greg Forbes and winter weather expert Tom Niziol --  and no experience in severe weather emergencies. This is a dangerous gamble over one penny a month that puts DIRECTV customers at risk.

“This reckless move by DIRECTV will have an impact on our role as part of the national safety and preparedness fabric of our country at a time when the volatility and frequency of weather events seems to be increasing. The Weather Channel partners with humanitarian and emergency management agencies at the local, state and federal levels. We help people prepare before storms, stay safe during their effects, and find help afterward. If the network is not available to viewers, the effectiveness of these partnerships, which help make us a more weather ready nation, are jeopardized. I am hopeful DIRECTV will come to their senses soon and will not force its customers to change carriers to stay safe and informed.”

I highlight this part because I believe David Kelley may need to do some research into his own company. If he did, he wouldn't have made the mistake of being grossly hypocritical.

Weathernation has only been around about a couple of years now. I'm neutral to WeatherNation, I don't like it or dislike it. I believe it still needs a lot of work. In fact I wasn't even aware the live segments were on a loop, I've never watched the channel more than 5 mins. at a time before. However, with all of that being said, I think David Kelley has forgotten or chosen to ignore the fact that TWC had to start from the bottom up to get to where it is now.

In comparison to where WeatherNation is now...
In the first couple of years, Did TWC have Jim Cantore? NO.
Did TWC have Dr. Greg Forbes, Tom Niziol, Greg Postel? NO, They had John Hope, but outside of him back then they had nobody as an expert.
Did TWC have field coverage? NOPE. Not until Hugo which was...oh 7 years AFTER their existence as a weather network. I'm not sayin' anything, I'm just sayin'.

I know well established networks such as TWC will take jabs at their competitors, calling them "cheap startups" but it's clearly an ironic one to take considering TWC themselves ALMOST failed as a 24/7 cable weather network in it's early years because critics took them to be a joke.

Long story short, TWC better tread the water carefully and not underestimate what WeatherNation, Network Weather or Accuweather is capable of doing this year and years to follow. It's an open free market now so there will be winners and losers. For TWC's own sake, I hope they don't play to be on the loser's side.

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TWC and your Cable Company / Re: DirecTV Dropping TWC

« on: January 13, 2014, 09:27:58 PM »

Very Interesting! DTV won't be able to pick just 1 weather channel soon:
http://www.accuweather.com/en/weather-news/accuweather-announces-the-laun/22055195

So by Christmas 2014, we may have TWC, WN growing, Network Weather and Accuweather starting!

One major question, how will this differ from the local Accuweather channel we already have?

LMAO, I bet TWC is peeved now. That 32 year reign as a weather monopoly is slowly, but surely coming to an end.

I like the first part of the article where they basically said, "You know we weren't gonna let the cat out of the bag now, but we figured why not take advantage of the DTV/TWC controversy and rub it in TWC's faces and stick it to them where it hurts."

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TWC and your Cable Company / Re: DirecTV Dropping TWC

« on: January 11, 2014, 08:14:02 PM »

TWC is preempting programming now? For what reason? Just 3 days before DirecTV is scheduled to drop them?

Um...severe weather I would assume.

Seems like a lot of you think the timing is questionable, but honestly I'm sure it's just a coincidence.

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TWC and your Cable Company / Re: DirecTV Dropping TWC

« on: January 11, 2014, 04:33:19 PM »

Desperation is kicking in fast.

Doesn't really matter to me what happens, however it'll be interesting to see if it actually happens and for how long...

Also I've been hearing conflicting reasons as to why DTV is threatening to drop TWC. I thought it was because of viewer complaints over the lack of live programming, but from what I saw a snippet of from an article today, it's over financial reasons on TWC's end with Sam Champion, his new show, etc, and the fees they want DTV to foot the bill on.

It's likely the latter though.

EDIT: It's also ridiculous that TWC is trying to get the government to intervene by urging DTV viewers to contact their senators/congressmen to stop DTV from dropping them from the lineup.

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The Game Room / Re: Which would you prefer?

« on: January 10, 2014, 01:23:49 PM »

Hawaii.

Would you rather go see a new movie as soon as it hits theaters or wait until the movie comes out on DVD/Blu-ray?

I rather wait for the DVD release, buying a movie ticket alone is just as expensive as the DVD would be.

Are you a casual or hardcore gamer?

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Winter Weather / Re: Worst Arctic Outbreak in 20 Years Coming 1/5-8/2014

« on: January 07, 2014, 07:23:33 PM »

We shattered our record low of 10°F set back in 1970 when we dropped down to 6°F! Wind chill hovered around -10°F at that time.

This morning is now the coldest morning I have ever been through (well that I can remember) in my 21 years living down here. We got down to 8°F back in the January 2003 Arctic Outbreak. The 6°F was the coldest temps we had seen since February 1996. Our high today was 25°F.

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Winter Weather / Re: Worst Arctic Outbreak in 20 Years Coming 1/5-8/2014

« on: January 06, 2014, 11:14:33 PM »

12.6°F currently here using the weather station from Georgia Tech (since it's the closest to where I live) from wunderground.com Wind chill is 0°F

The airport is 13°F, wind chill is -4°F!

This is the second coldest I've ever seen it get here in my entire life I can remember.

EDIT: I didn't realize Wunderground displays a weather station from TWC HQ with my zipcode. It says the temperature is 10.6°F with a wind chill of -4°F currently.

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Winter Weather / Re: Worst Arctic Outbreak in 20 Years Coming 1/5-8/2014

« on: January 06, 2014, 06:51:52 PM »

We picked up 10" of snow from yesterday's winter storm, deepening our snow pack to around 17".

Now, we're at -9°F with a wind speed of 24 mph, creating a wind chill of -36. Lows could dip to -20°F tonight, with wind chills between -40 and -50°F

WOW! It really makes my single digit forecast low and subzero wind chill readings sound balmy in comparison.

Also props to the ECMWF (European Model) for sniffing out this Arctic Outbreak a week in advance before the other models and sticking to it's guns on it happening.

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Winter Weather / Re: Worst Arctic Outbreak in 20 Years Coming 1/5-8/2014

« on: January 06, 2014, 04:43:04 PM »

Oh boy! Here we GO! Down into the upper teens already, we got down to around 24 this morning and rose back up to high as 27(28 at Hartsfield Int'l) around the 2pm hour and have been dropping ever since.

Current Temperature: 19.7°F Wind Chill: 5°F Dewpoint: -1°F

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Winter Weather / Re: Worst Arctic Outbreak in 20 Years Coming 1/5-8/2014

« on: January 06, 2014, 12:43:09 PM »

Several N. GA counties have closed schools for tomorrow. Atlanta metro area is closing schools tomorrow also.

Parts of N. GA (just barely north of Atlanta) are under Wind Chill Warnings. One of our Local Mets said it's the first time in his 29 years here forecasting wx for Georgia he as ever had to make a graphic for on-air pertaining to that. Wind chill values expected to reach -30°F who are under the warning! Those of us in the Wind Chill Advisory can expect wind chill values as low as possibly -15°F!