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Everything Else TWC / Re: General TWC Discussion

« on: June 23, 2008, 11:53:03 PM »

Has anyone seen regional openers for the new graphics packages other than First Outlook and Evening Edition? Those are the only ones I've seen so far.

I believe I've seen them used for Day Planner.

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General Discussion / Re: The Front Porch

« on: June 23, 2008, 11:51:55 PM »

Billy, you get some Baltimore stations, right? Watch once during a severe weather event if you don't beleive me.  :sunglasses:

Yes, I get some Baltimore stations, and oh, I believe you.

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General Discussion / Re: The Front Porch

« on: June 23, 2008, 11:36:09 PM »

But isn't that precisely the reason that the Weather STAR 3000 was discontinued? It couldn't sound an alert tine each time a warning was displayed.

Do the rules and regulations that regulate cable differ from those residing over OTA TV?

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General Discussion / Re: The Front Porch

« on: June 23, 2008, 11:26:22 PM »

The local Fox affiliate, WPMT 43, is occasionally crawling information about a Severe Thunderstorm Warning in effect in Berks county. Each time information crawled across the bottom of the screen, there was no audible alert. Then they showed a map with the warnings on it, and the warning for Berks county was shown, along one for Adams County, which expired 45 minutes ago.

Isn't that against FCC regulations to be showing the warning, but have no audible alert?

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The Game Room / Re: Airport Code Game

« on: June 23, 2008, 10:40:22 PM »

KMDW - Chicago Midway
KORD - Chicago O'Hare
KMSP - Minneapolis/St. Paul

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Everything Else TWC / Re: Blooper Thread

« on: June 23, 2008, 10:24:54 PM »

A minute ago, they used an EE side graphic displaying information on protecting your house during a hurricane. Of course, it was only useful to HD viewers.

Yeah, those tips involving "Storm shutte" were really useful.

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Everything Else TWC / How will TWC handle Weather Updates in the future?

« on: June 23, 2008, 09:44:32 PM »

With the recent severe weather we've had here, I'm wondering how dual feed Weather Updates will be preformed in the future when all the shows are moved in the HD studio. Obviously, they couldn't do the weather update from the video projector wall because that would be in use by the main show already in progress. Would they have to use the new key wall in the HD studio? Or would TWC keep another wall open somewhere else in the building just for weather updates?

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Everything Else TWC / Re: General TWC Discussion

« on: June 23, 2008, 09:07:35 PM »

For a change, the first segment of Evening Edition actually ran about a minute short instead of a few minutes long. It ended a few seconds after the clock flipped to 9:06 PM ET.

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General Weather Chat / Re: Watch/Warning Thread

« on: June 23, 2008, 08:59:55 PM »

Severe T'Storm Warning

SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
PAC001-041-055-133-240145-
/O.NEW.KCTP.SV.W.0073.080624T0045Z-080624T0145Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE STATE COLLEGE PA
845 PM EDT MON JUN 23 2008

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN STATE COLLEGE PA HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  NORTHWESTERN YORK COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA...
  EAST CENTRAL FRANKLIN COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA...
  SOUTH CENTRAL CUMBERLAND COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA...
  NORTHERN ADAMS COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA...

* UNTIL 945 PM EDT

* AT 842 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING NICKEL SIZE HAIL...AND
  DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH.  THIS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR
  MONT ALTO...OR 9 MILES NORTHEAST OF WAYNESBORO...AND MOVING EAST AT
  22 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  CASHTOWN AROUND 905 PM EDT...
  SEVEN STARS AROUND 910 PM EDT...
  GETTYSBURG AROUND 915 PM EDT...
  PINE GROVE FURNACE STATE AROUND 925 PM EDT...
  HEIDLERSBURG AROUND 940 PM EDT...

THIS WILL ALSO IMPACT THE FOLLOWING MAJOR ROADS...ROUTE 15...ROUTE
30.

SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CONTAIN DAMAGING WINDS 58 MPH OR STRONGER...OR
HAIL THREE QUARTERS OF AN INCH OR LARGER. SEEK SHELTER INSIDE A
STURDY LOCATION NOW.

PLEASE REPORT HAIL...STRONG WINDS OR WIND DAMAGE TO THE NATIONAL
WEATHER SERVICE BY CALLING TOLL FREE...1 8 7 7 6 3 3 6 7 7 2.

LAT...LON 4016 7699 3991 7686 3975 7753 3992 7762
TIME...MOT...LOC 0045Z 248DEG 19KT 3987 7747

$$

FORECASTER: MARTIN

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Local Forecast / Re: Satellite LF Sightings

« on: June 23, 2008, 08:18:01 PM »

Is this the first time u've seen a satellite ldl billy?

I've never seen it live before. I don't really know anyone with satellite.

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

« on: June 23, 2008, 06:48:00 PM »

Is First Outlook in HD yet?

Nope. They were still in SD this morning.

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Local Forecast / Re: Satellite LF Sightings

« on: June 23, 2008, 06:47:02 PM »

Saw the satellite LF (with DirecTV/Dish LDL) on a TV screen in a home during a Weather Ready segment that aired at 6:44 PM ET.

It was obviously an old segment, as it was the old August 2005 version with old icons.

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

« on: June 23, 2008, 06:02:07 PM »

So now we know where Samantha Mohr and Betty Davis are tonight: they're rehearsing in the HD studio for PM Edition's HD premiere next Monday.

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Programming and Graphics / Climate Code set?

« on: June 23, 2008, 05:03:18 PM »

I came across this screenshot of the Climate Code's set:



Does anyone know where the set was located? I'd assume that it was where the current Forecast Earth set is located, inside the former Weekend View/Abrams & Bettes studio.

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Local Forecast / Re: New Album - I Need Your Help

« on: June 23, 2008, 04:00:04 PM »

Wow, I hadn't realized that the original version of "Simple Pleasure" had been recorded on 8-track tape. That version sounded very clear when it originally played on TWC. If you don't mind me asking, how long ago did you record the song?