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Programming and Graphics / Re: Official Ike Storm Alert Thread

« on: September 12, 2008, 04:36:12 PM »

IMO, they should mix it up and use all four themes. Can they do that? I don't think it would be that difficult to have a four song playlist...

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General Discussion / Re: The Pot Belly Stove

« on: September 12, 2008, 04:02:41 PM »

Heh, reminds me of the time I went to Borders to buy the second TWC CD, and the cashier, who was an older women, looked at it, she said "you're a young person who likes jazz?  "

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Programming and Graphics / Re: Official Ike Storm Alert Thread

« on: September 12, 2008, 03:04:51 PM »

As of 12:18 CT, the 2008 Studio show Storm Alert music is playing for the LF.

Really? Got a video? I know I should've skipped class today.

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Everything Else TWC / Re: General TWC Discussion

« on: September 11, 2008, 11:57:30 PM »

Sharon Resultan and Adam Berg are up next.

Yeah, let's dive right in and do that, gang!

edit: If they're going to go live all night, I wonder who will step in at 2 AM ET and do updates from there on?

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Programming and Graphics / Re: Official Ike Storm Alert Thread

« on: September 11, 2008, 09:33:26 PM »

Still regular LF music.

I never liked having storm alert music on the LF. IMO, that's going too far, and you're hearing nothing but two songs on the LF for a day or longer. I'd rather hear regular music.

IMO, it just isn't Storm Alert without the local forecast music; it adds a certain amount of drama and importance to the storm coverage.

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General Discussion / Re: 9/11/01

« on: September 11, 2008, 08:28:02 PM »

Here's my 9/11/01 story. I was sitting in my 7th grade math class, and the principal came over the PA system and told us about the attacks. I believe it was about 10:30 am, and then we turned on the TV, and I remember the Today show was still on, and there was mass confusion about what had happened. I believe by that point both towers had fallen, and there were reports about something happening in Washington. The rest of the day, we didn't really do anything else but keep the TV on watching the news.

I was in 4th grade at the time of the attacks and wasn't aware of the story until I went home. There was no mention of it at school that day, and I didn't see anything unusual going on such as students leaving, etc. I didn't know about it until I arrived home shortly after 4PM that day.

Generally, they tend not to tell elementary schoolers these types of things in school...

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Everything Else TWC / Re: General TWC Discussion

« on: September 11, 2008, 07:09:29 PM »

Looks like Carl Parker is back in studio taking care of business. 

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Programming and Graphics / Re: Official Ike Storm Alert Thread

« on: September 11, 2008, 07:01:02 PM »

TWC is now in Storm Alert for Ike!

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General Discussion / Re: Comcast EAS Screen

« on: September 10, 2008, 08:39:22 PM »

What the heck? I'm just seeing a black screen in that attachment, wstarcraze. 

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Everything Else TWC / Re: General TWC Discussion

« on: September 10, 2008, 07:31:49 PM »

Right now, on the inset satellite for Ike, they're showing a titlebar on the satellite picture. Don't think that's supposed to be there; you can hardly even read it. 

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Programming and Graphics / Re: Official Ike Hype/Storm Alert Thread

« on: September 10, 2008, 01:05:14 PM »

So now that Ike is into the Gulf and it is set to make landfall Friday night or Saturday morning as a strong Category 3, when do you think TWC will go into Storm Alert?

Most likely Saturday Morning

Unless Ike really slows down, there's no way they will wait until Saturday morning to activate Storm Alert.

My guess is sometime late Friday afternoon or Friday evening.

They waited till Gustav was about to make landfall to activate it so i'm looking for them to do the same actions as Gustav and wait till Saturday

They went into Storm Alert about 14½ hours before Gustav made landfall in Louisiana. Storm Alert was started at 8:00 PM ET on Sunday, and Gustav made landfall at 10:30 AM ET Monday.

I suspect it will be the same this time around with Ike.

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Programming and Graphics / Re: Official Ike Hype/Storm Alert Thread

« on: September 10, 2008, 12:55:54 PM »

So now that Ike is into the Gulf and it is set to make landfall Friday night or Saturday morning as a strong Category 3, when do you think TWC will go into Storm Alert?

Most likely Saturday Morning

Unless Ike really slows down, there's no way they will wait until Saturday morning to activate Storm Alert.

My guess is sometime late Friday afternoon or Friday evening.

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Programming and Graphics / Re: Official Ike Hype/Storm Alert Thread

« on: September 10, 2008, 11:11:06 AM »

So now that Ike is into the Gulf and it is set to make landfall Friday night or Saturday morning as a strong Category 3, when do you think TWC will go into Storm Alert?

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Everything Else TWC / Re: Blooper Thread

« on: September 09, 2008, 09:34:17 PM »

On the OMG PANIC BAR, the red titlebar had no title on it when showing wind observations.

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Everything Else TWC / Re: The Weather Channel | HD Discussion

« on: September 09, 2008, 09:02:18 PM »

Underside of the desk?

There's a red floor under the desk; I know that...

That's probably what I saw, then.