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Everything Else TWC / Re: Complete change of TWC hourly program schedule

« on: May 18, 2009, 04:35:04 PM »

It's worth noting that the top and bottom of the hour segments now run a extra minute longer, until about :07 and :37, respectively (at least that's what happened during the first hour of DP today).

So we have 3 minute flavors again like the 4000 had?

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Local Forecast / Re: New Product Playlists (flavors) being tested

« on: May 18, 2009, 04:32:36 PM »

Speaking of Almanacs, the one with the Moon Phases has suddenly returned on my IntelliStar since this new flavor lineup started up nationally, I haven't seen it in over a year!

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Local Forecast / Re: New Product Playlists (flavors) being tested

« on: May 17, 2009, 10:50:59 PM »

Here's the new flavor for the :18 and :48 Btw I dubbed in the music you hear, I was tired of recording the same songs over and over again.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nqNRyLpVJP4

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Local Forecast / Re: New Product Playlists (flavors) being tested

« on: May 17, 2009, 10:07:58 PM »

For the past week, my STAR has had new product playlists (the internal name used for what we TWC fans call "flavors") being tested on it. It's not been determined yet whether these changes are final, and a national roll out will occur or not. One of two things may or may not happen tomorrow (Monday) - the playlists will be tested on certain STARs, or they will do a national test. It's really a wait-and-see kind of thing. The biggest changes are outlined below:

-The CC screen no longer starts off each LF. The :08/:38 local starts with the local ob screens.
-When the wx bulletin screen is active, it is the very first screen. Also, this prevents the CC screen from showing during the :18/:48 LF, where the metro CC and regional CC screens are used instead.
-Seeing more of the getaway, air quality, and almanac screens on a regular basis.


Ready... set... discuss!

They have been testing this on the Atlanta IntelliStar since Friday evening right before that Satillite Outage, I have some videos of it, I thought something may have been wrong with my IntelliStar.

Be interesting to see who gets this tomorrow. Im not a fan of seeing less of the CC screen 

I'm not a big fan of that happening either. 

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Hurricane Central / Re: Hurricane Central 2009

« on: May 17, 2009, 10:32:04 AM »

Here's an update on possible Subtropical Storm Ana. Below are GFS models that show the low, I drew a cone for the track it will be taking from the different computer model runs. The 06z run tries to pull a TS Fay on the SE.

GFS 00z Run


GFS 06z Run


GFS 12z Run


GFS 18z Run

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Local Forecast / Re: Regional/Metro Cities

« on: May 17, 2009, 09:08:39 AM »

Atlanta IntelliStar Unit: 22204

Regional Map and Metro Maps

That metro map to me is ridiculously zoomed in. I never realized the ATL (I only call it that, instead of Atlanta) had so many suburbs. Since when is there a place called mid-town in Atlanta?

Midtown is in the central part (heart) of Downtown, it's where most businesses and housing is. It would have made more sense to just say "Atlanta" instead of "Midtown" and the map being zoomed in like that I'm not sure why they did that since all of those cities are in or around the perimeter of Atlanta, that configuration hasn't changed much since the early IS days.

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Local Forecast / Re: Regional/Metro Cities

« on: May 17, 2009, 08:42:04 AM »

Atlanta IntelliStar Unit: 22204

Regional Map and Metro Maps

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Contributions / Re: Weatherlover's Intellistar/Weatherscan Contributions

« on: May 16, 2009, 03:17:05 PM »

Here are all three of the three Weatherscan videos I like to contribute.

Weatherscan - Morning Storms pt .1

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NqFYXVXyfuY

Weatherscan - Morning Storms pt. 2

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fnkZsgznbI8

Weatherscan - Morning Storms pt. 3

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O3oOoJnBdRQ

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General Discussion / Re: The Front Porch

« on: May 16, 2009, 06:03:28 AM »

We have finals on the last three days of school  (there goes the fun about the last day of school)

I have finals on the very last day of school, this is their way to make sure everyone comes to school on the last day.

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Hurricane Central / Re: Hurricane Central 2009

« on: May 15, 2009, 06:34:00 PM »

From 12Z EURO

http://i41.tinypic.com/2w7oi1k.jpg

TWC has been talking about a possible subtropical storm forming next week off the SE coast, it wouldn't surprise me, the first storm has been forming during the past 2 or 3 Mays in a row.

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Contributions / Re: Weatherlover's Intellistar Contributions

« on: May 15, 2009, 04:23:10 PM »

Here's one of the 4 that has finished uploading, This is also my 200th video on Youtube! I'll edit this and post the other 3 with attachments if you want to download them.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M-Z6WWc3ZSE

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General Discussion / Re: Happy Birthday, hen7713!!!

« on: May 15, 2009, 04:04:18 PM »

Happy Birthday!! 

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Local Forecast / Re: Wayman Tisdale dead at 44!

« on: May 15, 2009, 03:51:43 PM »

This is the first thing I saw on the home page of Yahoo! in the Sports section, I was very surprised.

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Programming and Graphics / Re: Wx Proof- New TWC Show

« on: May 14, 2009, 11:37:10 PM »

\"Wx Proof" explores the "what ifs" and "could that really happens" of extreme weather conditions. O

Sounds like another show on TWC.

This sounds like a spin-off to ICHT.

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Programming and Graphics / Re: *MAJOR* programming changes coming this summer

« on: May 14, 2009, 10:08:37 PM »

I don't leave for school until after 8 so I'm glad I would get to see the first hour.