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TWC Fan Art / Re: Billy's Artwork

« on: May 07, 2008, 11:41:34 PM »

What I've been spending most of my evening on:





Working on a complete set of satellite LF templates.

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General Discussion / Re: A YouTube partner made a copyright claim on one of your videos

« on: May 07, 2008, 08:22:04 PM »

Don't delete the video. There's no reason to. Your in no trouble, they just want to put ads on it for some reason. I wouldn't worry about it anymore unless they ask you to remove it.

True. In fact I see that an ad has already appeared on that video. I guess they feel they need to run ads because all the money they've lost by me using their music in a video.

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General Discussion / A YouTube partner made a copyright claim on one of your videos

« on: May 07, 2008, 07:51:58 PM »

Oh boy, here we go. I just got this email in my inbox:



So it doesn't seem that I am in trouble, but they're just going to watch over my video and put ads on it...

BTW, here's a link to the video in question:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KQTtIZep0nk

YouTube Content Identification program: http://www.google.com/support/youtube/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=83766&hl=en_US

Anyone have this happen to them before? Also, anyone know what I should do about the video? Should I delete it?

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Local Forecast / Re: General LF Discussion

« on: May 07, 2008, 03:39:35 PM »

Today marks one year since the LF music programmer change, and the night of the vocal music.

I remember this day... I was laying in bed watching A&B and almost dozed off until the 8:18 PM ET local forecast. It started off with no narration, and I was like "this is strange" then I hear the vocals come in. I was like "OMG, WTF?!" then the local forecast cut out early in the middle of the forecast. I was so freaked out that I jumped out of bed.

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Local Forecast / Re: Circa August 2005 Satellite LFs

« on: May 07, 2008, 03:35:11 PM »

Thanks Mike. Though I'm sure I'm wrong, I don't think I've ever seen the satellite LF where the daypart forecasts were for one day, but the regional forecasts were showing the next day already.

If it's showing the forecast for Tuesday, then that clip could be from August 16. This version was brand new at the time though, so it could very well just be a bug or something.

I'm guessing that the date in the filename is indeed correct because the dayparts for Monday are still showing times early in the day. If it had been recorded on Tuesday August 16th, then we'd probably be seeing dayparts for Tuesday. I'm guessing it was just a bug that caused the regionals to show Tuesday.

Also, on a somewhat related note, does anyone know what times the satellite LF, IntelliStar, and XL were updated on August 15th? Was it right at 5:00 am et?

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General Discussion / Re: Happy Birthday Michael (texasstooge)

« on: May 07, 2008, 12:26:44 PM »

Happy birthday. 

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Local Forecast / Re: Circa August 2005 Satellite LFs

« on: May 07, 2008, 11:54:09 AM »

Thanks Mike. Though I'm sure I'm wrong, I don't think I've ever seen the satellite LF where the daypart forecasts were for one day, but the regional forecasts were showing the next day already.

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Local Forecast / Circa August 2005 Satellite LFs

« on: May 07, 2008, 12:52:18 AM »

Just curious, does anyone have any satellite LF videos from right around the August 15, 2005 relaunch or shortly thereafter (maybe a few weeks after)? I'm looking for videos of when the satellite LF still had mixed case text in the titlebar.

I've so far found

one

from August 29th during Katrina coverage. Anyone know of any others from around this time period?

Thanks.

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General Discussion / Re: The Pot Belly Stove

« on: May 06, 2008, 11:17:50 PM »

And why is it that I can't be a suckup??

I never said you couldn't be a suck up. Suck away! 

*Waits for someone to comment on how that doesn't sound right*

I'll oblige.

That just doesn't sound right, Gary. 

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Local Forecast / Re: Satellite LF Sightings

« on: May 06, 2008, 03:11:54 PM »

Satellite LF 3:08 PM ET.

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Everything Else TWC / Re: General TWC Discussion

« on: May 06, 2008, 01:38:30 AM »

I can't believe I'd ever say this, but I miss hearing "The following is a co-production of and is jointly funded by The Weather Channel and The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration." on TWC.

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Everything Else TWC / Re: General TWC Discussion

« on: May 05, 2008, 04:01:29 PM »

They're still using the winter Weather Center opener. Shouldn't they have switched to the summer opener by now?

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TWC Today News / Re: Site Design Vote

« on: May 05, 2008, 11:35:45 AM »

Gary, when you were putting the new site together, you put the XL flavor guide up in place of the XL videos page.

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Your Local Weather / Re: Chicagoland Weather

« on: May 05, 2008, 01:11:57 AM »

Gil or Steve (Spring Rubber), did you smell kind of a burning-smoke smell today?  I was outside and smelled it constantly...figured someone was barbecuing...then I go 30 miles north, and I still smell it.  I wonder what's up

Remnants of the 1871 Great Chicago Fire?

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Programming and Graphics / Re: New Q2 programming schedule released

« on: May 04, 2008, 02:35:20 PM »

What Is FFN?

Full Force Nature.